Roleplaying, anyone?

Kyokai · Post by **Kyokai** » 16 Mar 2005, 01:45

Does anyone like to actually role-play their MMORPG characters? I'm one who enjoys this esoteric form of entertainment, as are many others. I'd like to have TMW give special consideration to roleplayers, maybe with a RP only chat channel or something (Dialog said in-character appears in a different color than normal speech). It would also be nice if player's could put a history of their characters or adventures, as well as a description of themselves, into their profiles, so that when other players examine them, they can see what kind of character that person is. This adds alot of depth to character building as well, though not in the tangible way stats and skills do.

HaLLanHype · Post by **HaLLanHype** » 16 Mar 2005, 02:25

Well you could have 2 servers. A RPing one and non RPing one.

Funesto · Post by **Funesto** » 16 Mar 2005, 07:34

Nah, I dont think its a good idea to have seperate servers until there are more people playing the game, but once there were people playing it be a good Idea .

HaLLanHype · Post by **HaLLanHype** » 16 Mar 2005, 20:14

Well yea I didnt mean right now

Kyokai · Post by **Kyokai** » 17 Mar 2005, 01:08

The thing is, we're planning on stretching one world across several servers, so it would be difficult to do things that way (we would need to duplicate all the servers). We would really need to find a way to integrate RP'ers and non-RP'ers together in one world.

Authoritive Anarchy · Post by **Authoritive Anarchy** » 04 Apr 2005, 22:16

just to be sure, by role playing do you mean like... talking as medievalish as you can and say stuff like "good ol day sire" and "shine ya boots gova"?

Kyokai · Post by **Kyokai** » 04 Apr 2005, 22:35

If that's how your character talks then, yeah. However, the technical definition of Roleplaying would be not only to speak but to act the way your character speaks. If you have a character that talks in any dialect, you talk that way in game, but also if your character were really nationalistic, he might be averse to anyone who doesn't come from the same nation.

In really extreme cases, you might even play a girl who thinks the maggots in Amzeroth are really cool, but acts and talks normally, until you kill a maggot, in which case she goes ballistic and PK's you... (that's extreme, but sounds like a fun character to play, honestly)
Anyhow, real roleplaying is to think of the game as though it were real and you actually were the character. It's not about talking medieval-ish, though that's a common misconception.

Roleplayers don't talk about things like "I want to do the quest for the 9th Fire Spell," instead one might say. "I'm on a trip to the temple of fire to continue my studies with the sage, we are good friends."

Another example:
Gamer: "w007, level up! I pwn 4ll now!!!!!111!"
Roleplayer: "Alright! It looks like my training is finally starting to pay off."

Authoritive Anarchy · Post by **Authoritive Anarchy** » 05 Apr 2005, 00:02

well, I think thats dumb but whatever, just my sane opinion.

Bear · Post by **Bear** » 05 Apr 2005, 06:44

i think its a good idea to have quests that link to other quests, good for party playing/role playing

eibwen · Post by **eibwen** » 10 Apr 2005, 03:24

I think the whole notion of Role Playing is just the attitude of the player. I think once the game has evolved to the point where the characters have significant depth, this will come naturally -- to a degree as would be expected of any genre.

I wouldn't focus on RP specifically, but extending the depth of characters, such that players may RP their chat or even persue quests according to how they RP the character.

Basically, depth of game will allow players to RP their characters will remaining inclusive of all players.

sky · Post by **sky** » 10 Apr 2005, 03:28

I LOOOVE Roleplaying.

Roleplaying, anyone?

Do you roleplay MMORPGs?

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