The Admin/DM Team have been comparing Andunor specifically to Skullport as opposed to Menzoberranzan(sp?) for quite a while now when it comes up in discussion, IIRC. So instead of thinking of it as a transformation yet to happen, think of it more as "it has been this way."Seven Sons of Sin wrote:(why isn't this in the Feedback section?)
Also, we should've never allowed surface races to so easily integrate into the UD, unless the long-term goal is to wholly transform the Underdark into Skullport.
Perhaps a wider variety of NPC representation down there might help facilitate this perception, or maybe not. I don't know; I don't spend a lot of time down there.
I personally don't understand what everyone's so up in arms about or why people are making the outrageous statement that people who support the tags just don't want outcasts to do "X." I've found most of the outcasts (and slaves, who also have this horrible, world-shattering tag we're arguing about, yet somehow manage) to be extremely engaging. I'm not trying to punish them.
What I take the most logical exception to in this whole argument is that there is this subsection of reasoning backing the argument against tags that seem to amount to 'I don't care what the Admin/Owner and creator of the concept had in mind when he put outcasts forward for the server, this is how I think it should be, so that's how I want (and am going to continue) to treat it.'
To me, that is exactly the kind of OOC response that does prompt some form of IC notification in the description as a good idea.
No matter how good your reasoning to propose a change is (and I wouldn't care if the block in the ruling about being notorious everywhere was changed, personally, but it hasn't been), your entire premise is wrong when you come at it from the stance of "Everyone who agrees with the Admin's words are wrong/attacking me because I don't find them convenient."
Also, @ suggestion being mentioned in OP, I think it's pretty sweet, personally. The RP behind each one is generalized but fits, and grants a stat-of-choice boost on creation for background. Wouldn't that be the only background with that kind of statistical oomph?