first clan?

[Thomek]

No rly?

and hey lisa, dont see you much around. (I guess you are a true ninja)

Without checking the facts, which is impossible since the old forums are gone forever.. I remember it like this:

1st group/playstyle-rules was Staffmasters created by Fasader (that ugly snatch). It was more a set of rules to follow than a real clan however.

I liked it and created the same, but on a more ambitious scale when I wrote the Ninja Guide.
(now found here: http://ninjaempire.guildlaunch.com/gwiki/index.php?page_name=default&gid=170558)

Soon after Rosewood made the Roses.

The guards I don't remember how early they were, but quite early for sure. We were all quite inspired back then.. It was not really clans, as many were afraid to make something that sounded so serious. For myself, it dawned at some point that I had made a clan, even though I insisted that we were not! When others started to call us a clan I realized what a terrible mistake I had made.

However, I would put Ninjas, Roses and Guards as the first real clans in cRPG in no particular order. Staffmasters was more a fun playstyle for perhaps 3-4 people total. (But they inspired the whole movement)

[Varric]

1st group/playstyle-rules was Staffmasters created by Fasader (that ugly snatch). It was more a set of rules to follow than a real clan however.

Weren's gonna be mad.

Made because the quarterstaff was OP in closed alpha (discovered by Calodine), Weren picked up on this and made the OP Staffmaster character, it would be about a week after cRPG was made public that Weren made the Staffmasters, which was by definition pretty much a clan.

[Thomek]

Oops.. Weren.. but fasader was a prominent member as i remember.

[Shpongled]

First clan was STW, though there were only two of us.

HA!

Edit: ok maybe it was staffmasters. We were a bit slower off the markl XD

[Topsnus]

I remember when Bane made the Guards thread because i looked into it and he told me i was the first member. I ended up not being the first member because i didnt actually make the decision to join for a little bit. But im pretty sure the idea was created around guarding caravans in strategus.

Im not saying it was created WITH strategus. I am saying that it was created a little bit after chadz made the official announcement that cRPG was never intended to be a standal;one mod, and that it was instead all just a proof of concept for strategus.

Im not positive, but im pretty sure that when i saw Bane's post there were other clans already. His post may have been created first, but he definitely didnt have members till other clans existed.

[Artyem]

staffmasters are NA?

Everyone played on an EU server back then.

[Babelfish]

and hey lisa, dont see you much around. (I guess you are a true ninja)

Just lurking these threads from time to time, might actually start playing again later in the summer
 

[Kenji]

Made because the quarterstaff was OP in closed alpha (discovered by Calodine), Weren picked up on this and made the OP Staffmaster character, it would be about a week after cRPG was made public that Weren made the Staffmasters, which was by definition pretty much a clan.

Oh! So that's why Weren is the boss and super fast in the last wave of peasant round in DTV

Anything else that's dev-related Easter eggs in game that I don't know?

[Bulzur]

The order of the staffmasters is not dead, you're not up to date.

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Remember that it's the only "clan" with no tag, so they're hidden.
Oh, and i'm sure it's not a clan but rather a playstyle. My polearm alt who was already in a clan was accepted in this "special" playstyle thingy.

I'd even say they greatly benefit from the recent "repair". But nowadays, i see so many medium/high armor people using the iron staff, it really doesn't feel right. Use a tunic with vest !

[Bjarky]

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I remember when Bane made the Guards thread because i looked into it and he told me i was the first member. I ended up not being the first member because i didnt actually make the decision to join for a little bit. But im pretty sure the idea was created around guarding caravans in strategus.

Im not saying it was created WITH strategus. I am saying that it was created a little bit after chadz made the official announcement that cRPG was never intended to be a standal;one mod, and that it was instead all just a proof of concept for strategus.

Im not positive, but im pretty sure that when i saw Bane's post there were other clans already. His post may have been created first, but he definitely didnt have members till other clans existed.

you joined later than me and there where a good chunk of members already, i'm not sure what you are remembering, but bane must have used an special convincing technique on you so you'll join 

[Tempest]

Order of the Rose was the first serious c-RPG clan.

[Babelfish]

Order of the Rose was the first serious c-RPG clan.

Depends on your view on 'serious clan'.  Both ninja & rose were first established as orders before they evolved into clans.
 There were codes of conduct, rank advancements & dress-codes in both these orders.
However, having looked at the date on every clan-thread on the old-forum, its non-disputable that guards is the longest living clan in cRPG. Only weren's order of the staffman were created prior to the guards.
 Guards were also the first clan to start using clan-tags. Ninja second and rose loooooong after. Even templars started using tags before rosewood's clan started using them.

[Elmetiacos]

Oops.. Weren.. but fasader was a prominent member as i remember.

Ah, so that's why the annoying old man with a staff in DTV is called Weren!

[Blueberry Muffin]

Just lurking these threads from time to time, might actually start playing again later in the summer

Come back lisa!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plz-bhcHryc

[Gingerpussy]

First clan i remember with a decent post, with armor and weapon requirements was Rose....