Faye's Revised Roleplaying Guide
by Eain | 27/08/2006 13:55:25 Faye's Revised Roleplaying Guide Greetings all. Some of you might remember my old roleplaying guide the former WoW Europe forums, stickied and posted under the name Faye. For the sake of recognisability I kept the same name on this guide but as you can see from my left avatar, my ingame name has changed since then :) So, here's the new revised roleplaying guide for this forum, hoping this too gets stickied, because I like to think that with one and a half year of playing on RP servers, I know how things go down there ;) Right, so here goes! Roleplaying. What is it? Simple; you're an actor, WoW is your setting. That's the basic setup for RP. Forget the stereotype that everyone talks in Ye Olde English, forget the stereotype that says that roleplayers cannot do endgame because the bosses kill them before they finished their sentence. Roleplaying has nothing to do with any of that. Wanna know more? Read on: Where to start? So you want to roll a character on an RP server. There's two types of RP servers in World of Warcraft, the first being the "RP" server and the other being the "RP PvP server". The names and categories of the server are: RP: Earthen Ring Argent Dawn Moonglade Steamwheedle Cartel Darkmoon Faire The Sha'tar RP PvP: Defias Brotherhood The Venture Co Scarshield Legion Ravenholdt Sporeggar Let it be perfectly clear that there is no difference in roleplaying between RP and RP PvP servers. A common misconception is that that "RP PvP server is a server that is both an RP, and a PvP server (ie a server where roleplaying is not required and where you can play it as if you were on a normal PvP server). This is wrong, entirely wrong. Both the "RP PvP" and the "RP" server are roleplaying servers with a roleplaying ruleset that must be followed. The only difference between RP PvP and RP is that RP PvP, obviously, has a PvP ruleset, and RP servers have a PvE (normal) ruleset where you don't have contested areas and where you are not flagged for PvP unless you choose to flag yourself. What now? Chose my server, I wanna roll a character. But I'm new to this. First off you have to consider what you're comfortable playing with. On a roleplaying server you can imagine that your character's gender has a lot more influence on how you play when compared to other servers (though this doesn't necessarily need to be the case, I am male IRL and play mostly female chars, all on RP servers, without having to seriously alter my RP style). Some people are more comfortable playing something that's close to home (some even taking it as far as just rolling a human and RP'ing their RL personality), while others really love to get into something that's strange to them, be this an Orc, a Tauren, an Elf or what have you. Then again, you can also just pick a race based on what racials you like and a class based on what class suits those racials best, that's just as fine. But keep in mind, you'll end up roleplaying one way or the other. Right, done. I've rolled a male tauren hunter. Where to start now? *clicks login* Simple. You log in, you start to quest. Nobody obliges you to start a rant about the meaning of life against the first player you run in to. Just start whacking those plainstriders, yeap. However, as you take the time to stroll through the lowbie area and complete some quests and get some levels, you can ask yourself several questions about your roleplaying future: - Who is your character? What is his name? - Why is he a hunter? What made your Tauren more of a hunter than say a warrior or a shaman? - If that question brings you to his background, then start adding some detail into it. For example, your character was always sent out to scavenge the barrens for food and supplies back when the Tauren didn't live in Mulgore yet, and this made him a hunter. Slowly you start to get a complete image of who the character you play is. Amagads! Someone's talking to me! He RP's! Ohnoes! Sound the alarm! No, really. It's alright, just play along. However, don't go over the top. Don't take every chance you get to relay your lifestory to this person. Keep it easy keep it simple. Even Taurens talk about simple things like the shining of the sun or the wind through the grass. Or stomping gnomes for that matter. Most races are relatively "human" in that you can just talk about birds and the bees like you sometimes do with people you meet in real life. [ Post edited by Eain ] |
by Vaneras | 02/08/2007 18:41:47 This thread has been added to the “Informative & useful threads for Roleplayers” compilations sticky: Informative & useful threads for Roleplayers  |
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