I cannot express to you exactly how much fun this was. Mainly because it, well, wasn't. But it beat the snot out of getting beat the snot out of. My name is Slim Shady. While you are whacking your dummy, you can watch the conversation going on throughout the server to get a good feel for the community and roleplaying that you've come to expect from these games.
Lineage is no exception.
And you can't turn it off. This is probably why many become PKs. Or at least you'd think. I didn't run into too many, but that probably was because I never strayed too far from the newbie towns, where helpful guards pound red-named characters into goop. Eventually, though, you'll want to stop pounding on a training dummy.