Post by Manovan Marrowsteel on Jun 26, 2006 4:49:34 GMT 1
The veteran’s guide to more advanced roleplaying
Introduction (not a must read)
I have been roleplaying on RP/RPPVP realms since Argent Dawn and Earthen Ring were the only realms which had the RP policy. I am not quite sure of when it was, but it was many months ago. I started out on Earthen Ring with the dwarf paladin Ryog. At the time my roleplaying was casual and never really thought through. I was quite new to the game and not a power leveler, which made me get tired of that paladin quickly. I realized that two new realms had opened, Defias Brotherhood and the Venture Co. and I decided to roll an undead warrior, called Arachnia on the Venture Co. She was the first character with which I experienced – what I would call – true roleplaying (with background story, with World-RP, with a guild created entirely based on her background story etc). I created my first guild, The Rotten Crusade, which never got that many members as I didn’t actually know much about guild management. – We had a guild bank though.
I later deleted that character and moved over to Defias Brotherhood where I created Rhagnar clan Bharaz the Bearhunter, a dwarf hunter who loved ale, fishing and bearhunting. I joined a guild called Holy Lightbringers and got promoted to Councilor within two weeks as I had many thoughts and ideas about guild bank system, roleplaying missions, events, contests etc. I was active with my ideas and we begun to have weekly meetings and events. That guild is my absolut best experience with roleplaying guilds so far. They found it sad when I left for Scarshield Legion, but I´m sure they understood. – They are still on Defias Brotherhood, by the way, growing rapidly. Give them a whisper if you are interested.
The reason I moved over to Scarshield Legion was because I wanted to be in a realm from the very beginning, experiencing the very first outdoor raids and perhaps in the future make a name that someone would notice. I created the human paladin Manovan from day one, but got tired of him within two weeks (when he was level 25). He had a 2,5 pages background story and I would like to think of myself roleplaying after it. I joined the Theramore Lancers (who were active in the starting of this realm) and I tried to more or less bring with them what I had learned from my first created guild and the Holy Lightbringers. I later got promoted to Captain in that guild, but left it when they had trouble with the leadership. It didn’t take long before Manovan was removed.
I had learned much by making only these characters (plus a couple of alts I never actually played much) when I started the night elf druid Lorendel – which was created merely to create a strict roleplaying guild for druids only, who would later struggle for full-druid instance raids. I created Circle of the Moon and had weekly meetings and events, and summarized everything we did and put it in our guild forums. It was the result of all good sides of the previous guilds I´ve been in and I hope to think that my members often got satisfied. But by IRL reasons I had to buy a second account.
On my second account I created the warlock Manovan, based on the background story of the paladin Manovan. I wrote more on his background story which turned out to be 17 pages (rapidly growing more) with size 10 times new roman in Microsoft Word. Now I was happy with a character to roleplay – and this is where I am today.
This guide
This guide is merely my tips on how to improve your already advanced roleplaying and enhance your experience with roleplaying. It is not a fact that this will work out for you if you’re a casual/newbie roleplayer and wants to learn more. This guide is absolutely not my way to aggressively tell you what to do. It’s more of my way to help people that actually ”is interested” in learning more.
I have not much experience of other ”real life” roleplaying games, other than some paper and pencil ones from when I was a kid. I have fully learned through World of Warcraft alone, and through playing on many different of the RP realms. This guide should therefore not make you into a professional roleplayer, but into a good follower of the RP policies.
If you like what’s written in this guide, you are free to quote it if you put my name with the quote.
Also remember to read the RP policies before you start playing on a RP realm. You can find the policies here: www.blizzard.com/support/wowgm/?id=agm01725p
Part I: Storyline creation
It’s a fact that this game is about grinding epics and honor. You level a character to 60 and then start spending all time in battlegrounds and end game instances just to grind. A veteran roleplayer should be able to say no to that, this is a game afterall, and decide that the grinding is just a small part of this neverending game. You must think to yourself, what does your character want? Does he actually want to spend his entire life looking for ”extreme” items which he will only use to find more ”extreme” items? Is that the life he has chosen? I think not.
Give your character a goal and a storyline. I’ll take my own storyline as example. Manovan Marrowsteel found Belamoore’s Research Journal in Dalaran (it’s an ingame book). Since it says in his background story that Manovan is just the ashes which have been put in the heart of a fallen warlock as an experiment (still unkown reason) by an apotechary, he hears the voice of the owner of the body. They talk sometimes even though the voice (It) only wants to regain the control of his body; and to do that Manovan must let the body increase in power. Stop right there: There is the first storyline. When Manovan has become strong, It might regain the body from him, making Manovan a voice in his head. How could I play after that? It’s simple – since I’m level 40 now, I put level 60 as the time where it will happen (if Manovan doesn’t prevent it somehow first). That is the first character goal, an extreme character development at end game.
Manovan read in the research journal about experiments on an ore called bloodstone. It said to be used by demonologists in rituals and it attracted and fused with blood. After reading this journal, he got to know that It was a relative to Belamoore when he lived, and he knows much about bloodstones which he won’t share. Manovan doesn’t matter much but in Arathi Highlands he gets a quest to claim bloodstone pendants from rogues in Northfolk. He starts thinking of the reason why he is claiming them and why It won’t tell him what they are for. This could be called a current storyline – it is not a goal but something the player develop meanwhile he plays.
Manovan later finds lesser bloodstone ore in a mine in Arathi, and decides to harvest some of it for research. He sends one piece of ore and the journal by mail to an alchemist within the guild who next day sends an answer of his research. Apparently Belamoore’s research were the same, but it seems that the bloodstones gain power from the blood it’s drinking. As a player I am all the time developing my storyline around those bloodstones, making Manovan fight for the reason to learn about them more than to crave for purple. That’s when Manovan found his ambition, the ambition to create an army around the philosophy of the bloodstone – and army that would increase in power the more they fought and yadda yadda ya. So he leaves his current guild (which was a tough decision in game, but all for his ambition) and starts looking for men and women he calls heroes. Now his entire goal by growing strong is to find heroes along the way to follow him and help him form the guild he’d call Bloodstone Order. That is his current goal, and when it is formed, he will most likely find a new one.
Then why did I write all this? It’s because a veteran roleplayer might lack the will to play more without doing anything else than farming. He wants his character to develop not only by power but by mind, and he wants to have something to roleplay around. But he doesn’t know how. My story above are only an example of all the possibilities, and I sure hope you won’t steal it… since I would get pretty pissed if you do. But you can learn from it and perhaps develop a storyline of your own by walking the same path. Play with a pencil in your hand, make notes of what you do and take screenshots. Then post it in the realm forums or roleplaying forums and let other comment and cirticize your character development.
If you want to read more about my storyline, you can read it here: forums-en.wow-europe.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-realm-scarshieldlegion-en&t=30054&p=1&tmp=1#post30054
Part II: Realistic movement
In real life when you are in the queue for a movie, waiting at the bank or walking to school – if you are bunny jumping you would most likely be considered a retard. But in World of Warcraft everyone is bunny jumping in towns. They just jump and jump and jump and jump and jump and jump and jump. Why? Because they’re bored.
A roleplayer doesn’t jump of one reason. His character lives. A living character doesn’t jump around in towns to look stupid. He has seen wars, people getting slaughtered, he has slaughtered, he has killed dragons, ghosts and demons. Is he actually that strong mentally that he is jumping around a town like a clown? I can answer that question for you. – No.
How does a veteran roleplayer move? Like a person moves. How does a person move? They walk or run. Of course a character can jump, but they shouldn’t be bunny jumping. Even running should be restricted. This game has been blessed by the possibility to run to get somewhere faster, which is very good. I am a roleplayer, but I run in towns. I run along roads and I run when I grind. But there are times when I actually walk. There are too many people out there who has never let their character walk slowly, but it’s a fact that it looks better than to run. Just by walking a little in a town makes everyone think that you are a roleplayer, which is good. I would more likely have some World RP with someone I see walking than running – just because the runner seems to be rushing somewhere. Perhaps between the auction house and bank, or to his next grinding spot.
When should a character walk? Inside small buildings, taverns, auction houses, banks, when interacting with other players (Manovan is hardly still when he talks to people, because he thinks he looks ”cooler” if he walk around them, making them look small and him look big). Walk when you want others to see that you are currently roleplaying.
There are other kinds of ”movements” that should be taken into discussion. For example, in this game you can stand inside another character or NPC. That is nothing you can do in real life. Believe me, I have tried. If you see someone running towards you, or even an NPC which cannot evade you, evade them instead. You could even have a macro saying: ”Bastard, look where you’re walking” or something similiar. I have tried that often, and 100% of the times the one running past me has stopped to insult me back (in character). Then an argue appears and you have actually created World RP with a casual who just tried to run past you.
Part III: Hosting events
Many people are hosting world events nowadays and it’s time for you to do it also. But then again, how do you do it? First of all, come up with why you want to host an event. Are you a guild master? Host an event for your guild. Are you just a player? How a world event and let everyone attend. The fun about roleplaying events is that you can do exactly everything. If you don’t know what to do, it’s not that hard to come up with something. For example; Stromgarde siege (something I just came up with).
Maybe you have trouble finding a group for finnishing the elite quests in Stromgarde, and decides to make an event around it. Then write a post in the realm forums.
A letter is nailed to the port of Stormwind Keep. Interested as you are, you walk up to it and starts reading. It is adressed to every fighter in Stormwind.
Stromgarde needs your help.
Once a great and strong city, now merely a destroyed keep sieged by the foul Syndicate. Aid me in an invasion to Stromgarde, to dispose of the leader of the Syndicate, and to slay the ogres residing at it’s left side.
My name is, <blopp>, and you can find me at the docks of Menthil Harbor, where I every evening at <blopp> is fishing. I will wear green goggles and have a parrot in a cage.
If people gets interested, I do not know. But it’s a fun way to look for a group and it’s an opportunity to combine World RP with doing quests. People who reads it will see you as a roleplayer and they might be interested to help you with the quests merely to roleplay with you. Then remember to, as you posted it as an event, do roleplay when making the quests and have a good time with the people who read your post and wants to join your group.
There are endless of opportunities and possibilities when it comes to hosting events. Just do whatever you feel like doing, and as long as you keep it in character people will be interested and look up to you as a roleplayer.
Part IV: Bringing RP to a world of casuals
This might be the most advanced but the most important topic. A roleplaying realm is full of casual players and people who doesn’t even want to roleplay. Many are casual because they aren’t experienced roleplayers, they don’t know anything about the lore and they just want to play in funny realm and roleplay without any pressure on them. And that is okay. As long as someone respects the roleplaying policies they are free to roleplay in any way they want.
Often are the more experienced roleplayers acting like policemen, telling others what to do and how to do it, complaining about OOC:ers and telling them to switch realm or get banned. That’s not how to do it. Instead show them how great roleplaying truly is. If you see a character named something like ”Superhunter”, then whisper him ingame and ask him why he’s named like that.
”Because I like it.” Ask if they have read the naming policies regarding roleplaying realms, they most probably have not. Then tell him about roleplaying and about how his name can affect his game experience in this realm in a negative way. But remember to do it nicely. Don’t flame him and don’t insult him. Talk to him like a normal person. If he is kind to you back, try to roleplay with him. If he doesn’t get it or tells you that he doesn’t want to roleplay, then you could actually ask him to go look for roleplaying or perhaps bring him to roleplaying. This is a way to convert OOC:ers to casuals or casuals or fulltime roleplayers.
But remember that it won’t work with everyone. There are still people you will have to put /ignore on. But if you don’t try to convert them, then who will? And if you don’t try to convert them, who knows it wouldn’t work? What this topic is about is that veteran roleplayers should not act like nazis and divide people into worthy and not worthy. Instead they should help people to get into the world of roleplaying and do that without using bad vocabulary like a nice person. Because we are all nice persons, are we not?
Part V: For the extremes
I have noticed that out there in the world of Azeroth are extreme roleplayers. I am not an extreme roleplayers, because I still look at the game as a game and not a real world. I just want to live my character in a roleplaying fashion, not become my character like an extremist. There are roleplaying extremists though, and there is nothing wrong with that. More RP to the world, yeehaa!
Some important notes for a true extremist is to leave every general chat channel since many people gets pissed of by reading them (not to mention Barrens chat). They download FlagRSP and removes the ability to see others’ names and levels, or pretends that it doesn’t exist. For every character they meet and interact with, they add his name to their friendlist if they get to know his name, and divide it into friend/known/foe. They only do quests that is considered in character, and for example; not doing quests about a new plague as a nature loving tauren. They only kill van Cleef once because after that he’s dead. Well, there are countless of ways to be a true extremist and even though I don’t want to be one, others might.
I once met a group of female night elves who refused to talk to me because I was a man. I warned them for some Hordes nearby and I have never been so insulted in character in my life. I was speechless. Are there actually roleplayers like that, I thought. Oh my god. But it was fun though, me and my druid buddy (I was a druid with that character) walked around swearing over women while we were grinding in Stonetalon Mountains for a good while.
Thanks to
My coffee machine. You are the best!
/target coffee machine
/hug
- Manovan
- Introduction
- This guide
- Part I: Storyline creation
- Part II: Realistic movement
- Part III: Hosting events
- Part IV: Bringing RP to a world of casuals
- Part V: For the extremes
- Thanks to
Introduction (not a must read)
I have been roleplaying on RP/RPPVP realms since Argent Dawn and Earthen Ring were the only realms which had the RP policy. I am not quite sure of when it was, but it was many months ago. I started out on Earthen Ring with the dwarf paladin Ryog. At the time my roleplaying was casual and never really thought through. I was quite new to the game and not a power leveler, which made me get tired of that paladin quickly. I realized that two new realms had opened, Defias Brotherhood and the Venture Co. and I decided to roll an undead warrior, called Arachnia on the Venture Co. She was the first character with which I experienced – what I would call – true roleplaying (with background story, with World-RP, with a guild created entirely based on her background story etc). I created my first guild, The Rotten Crusade, which never got that many members as I didn’t actually know much about guild management. – We had a guild bank though.
I later deleted that character and moved over to Defias Brotherhood where I created Rhagnar clan Bharaz the Bearhunter, a dwarf hunter who loved ale, fishing and bearhunting. I joined a guild called Holy Lightbringers and got promoted to Councilor within two weeks as I had many thoughts and ideas about guild bank system, roleplaying missions, events, contests etc. I was active with my ideas and we begun to have weekly meetings and events. That guild is my absolut best experience with roleplaying guilds so far. They found it sad when I left for Scarshield Legion, but I´m sure they understood. – They are still on Defias Brotherhood, by the way, growing rapidly. Give them a whisper if you are interested.
The reason I moved over to Scarshield Legion was because I wanted to be in a realm from the very beginning, experiencing the very first outdoor raids and perhaps in the future make a name that someone would notice. I created the human paladin Manovan from day one, but got tired of him within two weeks (when he was level 25). He had a 2,5 pages background story and I would like to think of myself roleplaying after it. I joined the Theramore Lancers (who were active in the starting of this realm) and I tried to more or less bring with them what I had learned from my first created guild and the Holy Lightbringers. I later got promoted to Captain in that guild, but left it when they had trouble with the leadership. It didn’t take long before Manovan was removed.
I had learned much by making only these characters (plus a couple of alts I never actually played much) when I started the night elf druid Lorendel – which was created merely to create a strict roleplaying guild for druids only, who would later struggle for full-druid instance raids. I created Circle of the Moon and had weekly meetings and events, and summarized everything we did and put it in our guild forums. It was the result of all good sides of the previous guilds I´ve been in and I hope to think that my members often got satisfied. But by IRL reasons I had to buy a second account.
On my second account I created the warlock Manovan, based on the background story of the paladin Manovan. I wrote more on his background story which turned out to be 17 pages (rapidly growing more) with size 10 times new roman in Microsoft Word. Now I was happy with a character to roleplay – and this is where I am today.
This guide
This guide is merely my tips on how to improve your already advanced roleplaying and enhance your experience with roleplaying. It is not a fact that this will work out for you if you’re a casual/newbie roleplayer and wants to learn more. This guide is absolutely not my way to aggressively tell you what to do. It’s more of my way to help people that actually ”is interested” in learning more.
I have not much experience of other ”real life” roleplaying games, other than some paper and pencil ones from when I was a kid. I have fully learned through World of Warcraft alone, and through playing on many different of the RP realms. This guide should therefore not make you into a professional roleplayer, but into a good follower of the RP policies.
If you like what’s written in this guide, you are free to quote it if you put my name with the quote.
Also remember to read the RP policies before you start playing on a RP realm. You can find the policies here: www.blizzard.com/support/wowgm/?id=agm01725p
Part I: Storyline creation
It’s a fact that this game is about grinding epics and honor. You level a character to 60 and then start spending all time in battlegrounds and end game instances just to grind. A veteran roleplayer should be able to say no to that, this is a game afterall, and decide that the grinding is just a small part of this neverending game. You must think to yourself, what does your character want? Does he actually want to spend his entire life looking for ”extreme” items which he will only use to find more ”extreme” items? Is that the life he has chosen? I think not.
Give your character a goal and a storyline. I’ll take my own storyline as example. Manovan Marrowsteel found Belamoore’s Research Journal in Dalaran (it’s an ingame book). Since it says in his background story that Manovan is just the ashes which have been put in the heart of a fallen warlock as an experiment (still unkown reason) by an apotechary, he hears the voice of the owner of the body. They talk sometimes even though the voice (It) only wants to regain the control of his body; and to do that Manovan must let the body increase in power. Stop right there: There is the first storyline. When Manovan has become strong, It might regain the body from him, making Manovan a voice in his head. How could I play after that? It’s simple – since I’m level 40 now, I put level 60 as the time where it will happen (if Manovan doesn’t prevent it somehow first). That is the first character goal, an extreme character development at end game.
Manovan read in the research journal about experiments on an ore called bloodstone. It said to be used by demonologists in rituals and it attracted and fused with blood. After reading this journal, he got to know that It was a relative to Belamoore when he lived, and he knows much about bloodstones which he won’t share. Manovan doesn’t matter much but in Arathi Highlands he gets a quest to claim bloodstone pendants from rogues in Northfolk. He starts thinking of the reason why he is claiming them and why It won’t tell him what they are for. This could be called a current storyline – it is not a goal but something the player develop meanwhile he plays.
Manovan later finds lesser bloodstone ore in a mine in Arathi, and decides to harvest some of it for research. He sends one piece of ore and the journal by mail to an alchemist within the guild who next day sends an answer of his research. Apparently Belamoore’s research were the same, but it seems that the bloodstones gain power from the blood it’s drinking. As a player I am all the time developing my storyline around those bloodstones, making Manovan fight for the reason to learn about them more than to crave for purple. That’s when Manovan found his ambition, the ambition to create an army around the philosophy of the bloodstone – and army that would increase in power the more they fought and yadda yadda ya. So he leaves his current guild (which was a tough decision in game, but all for his ambition) and starts looking for men and women he calls heroes. Now his entire goal by growing strong is to find heroes along the way to follow him and help him form the guild he’d call Bloodstone Order. That is his current goal, and when it is formed, he will most likely find a new one.
Then why did I write all this? It’s because a veteran roleplayer might lack the will to play more without doing anything else than farming. He wants his character to develop not only by power but by mind, and he wants to have something to roleplay around. But he doesn’t know how. My story above are only an example of all the possibilities, and I sure hope you won’t steal it… since I would get pretty pissed if you do. But you can learn from it and perhaps develop a storyline of your own by walking the same path. Play with a pencil in your hand, make notes of what you do and take screenshots. Then post it in the realm forums or roleplaying forums and let other comment and cirticize your character development.
If you want to read more about my storyline, you can read it here: forums-en.wow-europe.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-realm-scarshieldlegion-en&t=30054&p=1&tmp=1#post30054
Part II: Realistic movement
In real life when you are in the queue for a movie, waiting at the bank or walking to school – if you are bunny jumping you would most likely be considered a retard. But in World of Warcraft everyone is bunny jumping in towns. They just jump and jump and jump and jump and jump and jump and jump. Why? Because they’re bored.
A roleplayer doesn’t jump of one reason. His character lives. A living character doesn’t jump around in towns to look stupid. He has seen wars, people getting slaughtered, he has slaughtered, he has killed dragons, ghosts and demons. Is he actually that strong mentally that he is jumping around a town like a clown? I can answer that question for you. – No.
How does a veteran roleplayer move? Like a person moves. How does a person move? They walk or run. Of course a character can jump, but they shouldn’t be bunny jumping. Even running should be restricted. This game has been blessed by the possibility to run to get somewhere faster, which is very good. I am a roleplayer, but I run in towns. I run along roads and I run when I grind. But there are times when I actually walk. There are too many people out there who has never let their character walk slowly, but it’s a fact that it looks better than to run. Just by walking a little in a town makes everyone think that you are a roleplayer, which is good. I would more likely have some World RP with someone I see walking than running – just because the runner seems to be rushing somewhere. Perhaps between the auction house and bank, or to his next grinding spot.
When should a character walk? Inside small buildings, taverns, auction houses, banks, when interacting with other players (Manovan is hardly still when he talks to people, because he thinks he looks ”cooler” if he walk around them, making them look small and him look big). Walk when you want others to see that you are currently roleplaying.
There are other kinds of ”movements” that should be taken into discussion. For example, in this game you can stand inside another character or NPC. That is nothing you can do in real life. Believe me, I have tried. If you see someone running towards you, or even an NPC which cannot evade you, evade them instead. You could even have a macro saying: ”Bastard, look where you’re walking” or something similiar. I have tried that often, and 100% of the times the one running past me has stopped to insult me back (in character). Then an argue appears and you have actually created World RP with a casual who just tried to run past you.
Part III: Hosting events
Many people are hosting world events nowadays and it’s time for you to do it also. But then again, how do you do it? First of all, come up with why you want to host an event. Are you a guild master? Host an event for your guild. Are you just a player? How a world event and let everyone attend. The fun about roleplaying events is that you can do exactly everything. If you don’t know what to do, it’s not that hard to come up with something. For example; Stromgarde siege (something I just came up with).
Maybe you have trouble finding a group for finnishing the elite quests in Stromgarde, and decides to make an event around it. Then write a post in the realm forums.
A letter is nailed to the port of Stormwind Keep. Interested as you are, you walk up to it and starts reading. It is adressed to every fighter in Stormwind.
Stromgarde needs your help.
Once a great and strong city, now merely a destroyed keep sieged by the foul Syndicate. Aid me in an invasion to Stromgarde, to dispose of the leader of the Syndicate, and to slay the ogres residing at it’s left side.
My name is, <blopp>, and you can find me at the docks of Menthil Harbor, where I every evening at <blopp> is fishing. I will wear green goggles and have a parrot in a cage.
If people gets interested, I do not know. But it’s a fun way to look for a group and it’s an opportunity to combine World RP with doing quests. People who reads it will see you as a roleplayer and they might be interested to help you with the quests merely to roleplay with you. Then remember to, as you posted it as an event, do roleplay when making the quests and have a good time with the people who read your post and wants to join your group.
There are endless of opportunities and possibilities when it comes to hosting events. Just do whatever you feel like doing, and as long as you keep it in character people will be interested and look up to you as a roleplayer.
Part IV: Bringing RP to a world of casuals
This might be the most advanced but the most important topic. A roleplaying realm is full of casual players and people who doesn’t even want to roleplay. Many are casual because they aren’t experienced roleplayers, they don’t know anything about the lore and they just want to play in funny realm and roleplay without any pressure on them. And that is okay. As long as someone respects the roleplaying policies they are free to roleplay in any way they want.
Often are the more experienced roleplayers acting like policemen, telling others what to do and how to do it, complaining about OOC:ers and telling them to switch realm or get banned. That’s not how to do it. Instead show them how great roleplaying truly is. If you see a character named something like ”Superhunter”, then whisper him ingame and ask him why he’s named like that.
”Because I like it.” Ask if they have read the naming policies regarding roleplaying realms, they most probably have not. Then tell him about roleplaying and about how his name can affect his game experience in this realm in a negative way. But remember to do it nicely. Don’t flame him and don’t insult him. Talk to him like a normal person. If he is kind to you back, try to roleplay with him. If he doesn’t get it or tells you that he doesn’t want to roleplay, then you could actually ask him to go look for roleplaying or perhaps bring him to roleplaying. This is a way to convert OOC:ers to casuals or casuals or fulltime roleplayers.
But remember that it won’t work with everyone. There are still people you will have to put /ignore on. But if you don’t try to convert them, then who will? And if you don’t try to convert them, who knows it wouldn’t work? What this topic is about is that veteran roleplayers should not act like nazis and divide people into worthy and not worthy. Instead they should help people to get into the world of roleplaying and do that without using bad vocabulary like a nice person. Because we are all nice persons, are we not?
Part V: For the extremes
I have noticed that out there in the world of Azeroth are extreme roleplayers. I am not an extreme roleplayers, because I still look at the game as a game and not a real world. I just want to live my character in a roleplaying fashion, not become my character like an extremist. There are roleplaying extremists though, and there is nothing wrong with that. More RP to the world, yeehaa!
Some important notes for a true extremist is to leave every general chat channel since many people gets pissed of by reading them (not to mention Barrens chat). They download FlagRSP and removes the ability to see others’ names and levels, or pretends that it doesn’t exist. For every character they meet and interact with, they add his name to their friendlist if they get to know his name, and divide it into friend/known/foe. They only do quests that is considered in character, and for example; not doing quests about a new plague as a nature loving tauren. They only kill van Cleef once because after that he’s dead. Well, there are countless of ways to be a true extremist and even though I don’t want to be one, others might.
I once met a group of female night elves who refused to talk to me because I was a man. I warned them for some Hordes nearby and I have never been so insulted in character in my life. I was speechless. Are there actually roleplayers like that, I thought. Oh my god. But it was fun though, me and my druid buddy (I was a druid with that character) walked around swearing over women while we were grinding in Stonetalon Mountains for a good while.
Thanks to
My coffee machine. You are the best!
/target coffee machine
/hug
- Manovan