Things that annoy or puzzle you about Cantr

[Axiom]

I've seen lots of people with animal scars in their description, and I think it's sorta silly and melodramatic. I mean, yeah, I guess being bitten by a wolf once was a really cool and noteworthy adventure worthy of being memorialized in your character description... ???

[Optimus Christ]

I've seen lots of people with animal scars in their description, and I think it's sorta silly and melodramatic. I mean, yeah, I guess being bitten by a wolf once was a really cool and noteworthy adventure worthy of being memorialized in your character description... ???

Yes. It is. And the reason for that is, is that it gives a little history behind the character, because we all know no one will actually ask a character about their past unless its to point out possible logical fallacies. It's called RP.

[Axiom]

Getting attacked by an animal just seems awfully mundane to me unless you almost died or something. I wouldn't do it personally, but maybe that's just my personal preference.

[Wolfsong]

I'll describe animal attacks in a character description if they're significant - ie, I had a character once who ended up mauled by animals over a couple days and traveled across a (mostly) empty continent at 90% damage for a year or two until they stumbled into a populated town willing to help them. Not for a single bite that does 20% damage past the shield, though. That happens so often, and is almost immediately healed afterwards anyway.

I'll do the same for wounds inflicted by weapons - but I'm more likely to describe significant wounds like that using amputations and stuff.

[Marian]

Yeah I pretty much only bother adding scars if there's a story worth telling behind them.

[iavatus]

With the personal hygiene regime of most Cantrians, and the foul little balls of muck we must be, it's not surprising that every single injury, no matter the source, becomes a decade spanning scar.

editted just to clarify

[Wolfsong]

But such an elegant scar, winding thinly - without damaging - around somebody's eye, making them look mysterious and dangerous instead of crippled and disgusting.

[Kyriel]

Now I'm just picturing the following conversation:

Curious Newspawn: Where did you get that cool scar, Badass?
Badass Idiot: *looks stoicly at Curious Newspawn and refuses to answer*
Snarky Friend: He cut himself with a bone knife to try to make himself look badass.
Badass Idiot: *glowers at Snarky Friend*

[iavatus]

Scars are cool, especially face scars? I always thought of them as indicators of being too stupid to duck, or clumsy.

[Rebma]

I don't think people realize just how unattractive and ugly scars actually are, though.

This is so OT but even some surgical scars aren't pretty. I had to have a lump removed two years ago and was at least excited for a cantr-esque badass scar. Except it's not badass, or pretty, at all. And it makes me feel like I was attacked with something blobby shaped.

[SekoETC]

It's easy enough to get scars in Cantr that nobody should spawn with them. It's a good idea to keep track of animal attacks so you can tell which ones of your characters look like a jigsaw puzzle with a couple of pieces gone, vs the ones with perfect porcelain skin without a single scratch. It gets awkward when your character is in their 80s or very old, and you suddenly start thinking back and can't remember a single incident when they would've been attacked by an animal or even gotten hit while spawning. There's no way of checking every turn report to confirm this.

[Kyriel]

Hey, I've got some really badass scars IRL, from vicious animal attacks... that is, a housecat.

[Friar Briar]

smh...animal attacks are so frequent and commonplace that documenting every attack with a scar would be akin to tattooing on your body every, single mosquito bite you've ever had...

[Marian]

Besides, if people were to add a scar to their description for every animal attack, where would they find the room for the self inflicted ones later when they felt like they needed more attention?

[Auryn]

Insta-relationships. Just add a splash of drama and a sprinkle of sex, and poof! Long-term life partner!