Crusaders of the Realm COR Good 05/92 - present

Crusaders / Companions of the Realms  Crusaders / Companions of the Realms Crusaders / Companions of the Realms  Crusaders / Companions of the Realms   can still be found online at the following address

http://companionsoftherealms.com/

Along with a complete and varifiable timeline from 1992 till present which includes all the games we have been and are still involved in. And as previously mentioned CoR was the second guild created in NWN

Originally posted by Rebonik

Crusaders of the Realm COR Good 05/92 - present

Crusaders / Companions of the Realms  Crusaders / Companions of the Realms Crusaders / Companions of the Realms  Crusaders / Companions of the Realms   can still be found online at the following address

http://companionsoftherealms.com/

Along with a complete and varifiable timeline from 1992 till present which includes all the games we have been and are still involved in. And as previously mentioned CoR was the second guild created in NWN

Please knock these guys of their high horse. I'm begging you.

My positive experiences with cross gaming guilds = 0 so far out of several encounters.

Someday maybe I'll meet one that doesn't make me want to reach for a crossbow.

I just feel sorry for the people who belong to this guild, they are just a sad group of people having to belong to a group that takes great advantage of them.

Originally posted by Madimorga

My positive experiences with cross gaming guilds = 0 so far out of several encounters.

 

Someday maybe I'll meet one that doesn't make me want to reach for a crossbow.

  If you're a 'mature' gamer.....take a look at OIdtimersguild.com.  Think it's 25 (or 28?)+ though.  However there is NO drama, and there's pretty much no game that the guild doesn't at least have some sort of presence in.

  It also a VERY large guild though, so that might scare some people off (For instance, the SWTOR chapter is ~1200 people now :D)

Why can't people be just happy for others and say 'congrats' and move on? complain..complain..grumple..gnashing teeth...why so unhappy all the time people?

Pull up a chair and listen to an old man's tale of our gaming history. Back in 1991 (this was before the internet was even available to the comman man) AOL with the help of TSR and SSI created a online Dungeons and Dragons game based on SSI's "Gold Box" game engine (Any of you remember Pools of Radiance and Curse of the Azure Bonds?). It was called Neverwinter Night and needless to say the 16 color EGA graphics were amazing!

In the beginning the server only held about 150 people (was eventually bumped up to 350 towards the end) so all of us pretty much knew everyone by first name. Times were good, we adventured in EGA graphic blyss, and we were only paying roughly $6 per our during prime time hours (yes some had bills over $1000 per month).

One day reports started trickling out of the Lost Hills, someone was killing other players! Back in those days that was unheard of. AOL designed NWN so people couldnt attack others (so they thought). Beezlebul took advantage of a "loop hole", AOL didnt want to take out the ability to cast at other people (healing, buffs, ect) so Beezlebul found that he could cast poison, slays, and other damaging spells at other players. Thus PvP was born (the old timers from that era also invented the online acronym such as PvP and many others that are commonly used today).

Shortly after, Beezlebul posted on the boards he was looking for others to join him, a lot of us laughed at him but his numbers started swelling and we were no longer laughing. Beezlebul founded the first guild late April of 1992, the Guild of Chaos was born (they are no longer active unfortunitly).

A friend of mine, Handler, approached me one day, he wanted to stop the Guild of Chaos. The two of us came up with a plan, and together with about a hundred friends in a AOL chat room on a warm summer night in May of 1992 we came up with a name, the bylaws and mission for the first ever good guild, Crusaders of the Realms.

COR has been active in just about every game that has come out since the day AOL pulled the plug on NWN. The Syndicate can have thier accolades, I'm happy hanging out and playing with friends, some of which Ive known for a couple of decades.

My purpose here wasnt to try and take something away from the Syndicate, but the truth needs to be told  and misleading lies need to be exposed. I will vouch that the Syndicate was in Neverwinter Nights, but they formed shortly before AOL pulled the plug on the game in 1997.

TB

http://companionsoftherealms.com

The really hilarious part is that CoR was on the same server as the Syndicate back in the day in UO, and they were attention mongers back then too.

They had this really weird guild vibe where they would spent most of their time just talking about how awesome they were.

So... here we are 13 or 14 years later, and some things never change.

I'm suprised the Guinness Book of World Records wouldn't put a little more time into searching out the names of the earliest guilds to see if they still exist prior to letting the Syndicate do their attention monger thing.

archive.org is your friend:

castlecor.org

crusadersoftherealms.com

companionsoftherealms.com

Not that I think we'd actually want the attention.  I wonder if it's possible to just get a Guiness Book entry deleted without replacing it, heh.