Manovan's role-playing guide
by Manovan | 01/01/2007 10:04:51 Introduction Role-playing games (from www.wikipedia.org); A role-playing game is a type of game in which the participants assume the roles of characters and collaboratively create stories. Participants determine the actions of their characters based on their characterization, and the actions succeed or fail according to a formal system of rules and guidelines. Within the rules, they may improvise freely; their choices shape the direction and outcome of the games. Role-playing in World of Warcraft is your way, as a player, to enhance your gaming experience by making the World surrounding your character more alive. Characters with their own personalities, histories and ambitions, will interact with each other and act as you, the player, lets your creativity come to its climax. Meaning that you will be able to form your character and its surroundings based on your own imagination, and your ability to share that imagination through your interaction with others – in the way of role-playing. By doing that you might not just enhance your own gaming experience, but also affect others’ as you bring their characters on your adventures, or as yours are becoming part of theirs. The possibilities of unique adventures to follow is as endless as the possibilities of the human mind. You don’t have to be as creative as an artist or a writer to make up your own stories, neither do you have to be smart or able to fluently speak and write English (or French, German, Spanish, Korean or any language of those non-English realms if you play on them). I don’t speak or write English fluently (my English is a result of 7 years of studying in Swedish grade schools, and 2 years in upper secondary school), but even if I don’t understand some words and phrases, or am unable to express what I could have expressed in mother tongue, I can role-play in the World of Warcraft even silently just by acting. There are players role-playing mutes as there are others role-playing characters who needs translators as their character speaks a different language in-game. Those ways of playing are all results of creative thinking. You might choose to role-play casually, just as a character based on your own personality and thinking. Playing casually does not mean that you’re any worse role-player than other more devoted players. You might prefer to role-play the underling who follows his master’s orders, or a patriotic soldier who fights for his faction. You might also choose to role-play very affectionate as a story-teller who makes up creative adventures and plots and brings other role-players in on them as you not only form your own destiny, but shares it with others. You might be a very affectionate underling who serves his master but has his own ambitions, willing to do anything to fulfil them, or a soldier who has left his family and beloved ones to serve his faction in battle. He knows that he probably will die never seeing them again, but still he fights with hope of reunion – close emotions to distant goals. You might role-play as a strong and powerful leader, with plots who collides with other affectionate leader’s plots – resulting in epic conflict role-playing which can spread throughout the entire realm. The more you think about it, the more you realize how endless the possibilities are. This is a guide to role-playing, not a guide with rules telling you how to role-play, but a guide with tips on how you can either improve or change your role-playing (hopefully for the better). This is my third role-playing guide, and with this I want to bring up exactly everything I did on my two previous guides and also add even more – so hopefully all questions will be answered. I will also leave some space for future updates, if you as reader has any good remarks or tips of your own. I can’t promise though that everyone will be affected by this guide, and that all of you will share my opinions in every topic. You might hate it for all I know, but note that this is a personal guide based on my own point of view. And I wish for you to enjoy it, and learn from it. Role-playing realms The role-playing policy is set on two different kind of gameplays. There is the player vs environment (PVE) gameplay and player vs player (PVP) gameplay. Both of them have special realms with the role-playing policy, but then marked either only as RP (role-playing with PVE gameplay) or RPPVP (which obviously is role-playing with PVP gameplay, not role-playing or PVP gameplay). It is of course possible to role-play even on realms without the RP policy, though you as a role-player would be a clear minority and perhaps even laughed at by others at the realm. That’s why it’s good with realms that has a strict policy saying that role-playing is mandatory. You will now instead become a majority and you don’t have to fear that other players will be mocking you for playing out the RPG part of MMORPG. Acting out of character (OOC) is against the rules on the role-playing realms and it is reportable, and based on its degree the game masters might actually do something about it, considering how well written your report ticket is (names, time, conditions etc). I will write more about tips on how to face OOC later in the guide. The role-playing realms with PVE gameplay are: The role-playing realms with PVP gameplay are: Choose your realm wisely. [ Post edited by Manovan ] |
by Vaneras | 02/08/2007 18:42:15 This thread has been added to the “Informative & useful threads for Roleplayers” compilations sticky: Informative & useful threads for Roleplayers  |
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