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Why do you roleplay?
ammie
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Why do people role-play, I started because I got fed up answering personal questions like "Are you a girl?" "Where do you live?" "How old are you?" It became much easier to say "I'm 600 hundred years old and was born in the Kingdom of Fairies" (well you know what I mean) 
Once I actually got into it I found it sort off grew on you, your character took on an extra dimension, with a record of past adventures and a more purposeful journey in the game. It also became absorbing and fun to be creative, writing stories and descriptions about your character. I have seen some guilds that have taken it to amazing depths (almost Tolkienish) The players themselves becoming legends or characters woven into the guild history, new lore being written to run along side the game-lore, and major events staged consisting of hundreds of people.
I know to some that RP can seem a bit daft at times and that is understandable, on the surface it is, I mean in reality what grown person would go around pretending to be an elf
But dig a little deeper and you will find to truly RP well can be a match for the best minds, its consuming, inventive, sociable and can create an enhanced awareness of the game.
Would love to hear other people's thoughts on it and any good RP experiences
Once I actually got into it I found it sort off grew on you, your character took on an extra dimension, with a record of past adventures and a more purposeful journey in the game. It also became absorbing and fun to be creative, writing stories and descriptions about your character. I have seen some guilds that have taken it to amazing depths (almost Tolkienish) The players themselves becoming legends or characters woven into the guild history, new lore being written to run along side the game-lore, and major events staged consisting of hundreds of people.
I know to some that RP can seem a bit daft at times and that is understandable, on the surface it is, I mean in reality what grown person would go around pretending to be an elf
But dig a little deeper and you will find to truly RP well can be a match for the best minds, its consuming, inventive, sociable and can create an enhanced awareness of the game.
Would love to hear other people's thoughts on it and any good RP experiences
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But I have role-played in City of Heroes in the past, and the reason I do it is because it's not only fun to do, but I get to entertain a lot of other people in the process. When you RP an obese superhero in a pink costume named Gilbert flexing in the middle of a populated social area, people tend to gravitate to you. And it can be more of a blast than playing the game sometimes to act and react to everyone else.
I roleplay to play the role of something I can't normally be in real life. Generally because my brain is usually somewhere else than this world. That creativity needs an outlet, and I choose gaming. I did used to do art, but those damn MMO games killed that off real quick.
RP gives a MMO the edge it needs to be uniq. If I just want to play a computergame, why play a MMO?
When you have played and "won", you can always continue to RP until the game is cancelled.
And the new games around the corner will begin to make the space between RP and PvP smaller.
Im waiting for Darkfall, because it will force every one to do PvP if they want to live...and it will force everyone to ask others for help if they want to live. But you dont want to make anyone angry or tell to much about yourself so they know if they can use you.
No really, I'm surprised that anyone roleplays in these games. After all, the level of RP is inversely affected by the size of the game's population. Come to think of it, the quality of the community is also inverse to the population.....
I roleplay because it give me a chance to be somebody else. I life, I am perfectly happy, and I have a nice job where I'd like to think I make a difference, but in mmorpgs, I can be somebody totally different, and do heroic things that I could never dream of doing on this earth, nor would I even want to (because here, once you get killed, you don't respawn at the nearest alter).
I roleplay because it gives a more in-depth meaining and purpose to mmorpgs. I love the mechanics of mmos. The adventure, the hunting, crafting, and all the good stuff, but when I am playing the role of my character, I feel like I am contributing to the gameworld in a sense that I'm offering another personality. When the grind becomes to much, in and each and every mmo, it will at some point or another, I always can turn to Roleplaying for fun and it always brings new and interesting things into the game.
I roleplay because that's what these games originally were intended for us to do. They were adapted for online from the older pen and papers games, and from the single player RPGs that came to PCs after them. I think that roleplaying in a single player RPG is something totally different than the roleplaying done in mmorpgs, but everyone has their own definition of what roleplaying is.
To me roleplaying is becoming your character while you are in the gameworld. I do it because its easy, its interesting, and its what I've known since I started playing Dungeons and Dragons when I was a kid. I would have loved to become an actor. I think I would have been good at it. Instead of being in movies, I am an actor in mmorpgs. I've had some success at playing characters that have become pretty well known on the servers I was on in mmos such as SWG and EQ2. You meet NPCs and read lore about main characters in the background of each mmorpg. Why can we play one of those main roles in our mmorpg? That's why I roleplay, so that I can someday be known and remembered as a part of the gameworld, instead of just another toon going through the motions.
" Yarrr....Im a seasoned dwarf-klingon mutant zombie jedi-master with godly sword of the mexican albino clown slayer with putrid gems for socketed into the hilt. I wear shimmering fur kilt of the polar bear with flaming runes ( sometimes I burn myself "there" when I pee ). My armor consists of steel boots of cowardly run, bronze beer stained belt of.. okok, its just a simple bronze belt with beer stains on it, sheesh, my trusty dragon helm of protection and schizophrenia (cant have 2 buffs on it, has to be 1 buff and 1 debuff ) and of course chest piece is the most valuable prize in my collection - a genuine Nike T-Shirt ( made by undead gnomes from the tears of 100 elven virgins collected during full moon while singing to Michael Jackson songs ). Yarrrrr..."
Hows my RP introduction?
I am the type of player where I like to do everything and anything from time to time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor - pre-WW2 genocide.
Cuz it sux so much to be me.
No dis on roleplayers, I just figured a really concise escapist response was needed.
I am the type of player where I like to do everything and anything from time to time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor - pre-WW2 genocide.
To make people laugh. Comedic options really open up in different realities.
Example: While begging for money in Stormwind with my paladin.
"Donations please for the first church of Ur. We're so poor, even our donation box is on layaway."
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
He kept asking me "Do people roleplay there ?" ... i had to answer no.
Then he said that LOTRO will be geared towards roleplaying. I had to explain him that company that turned
heaven or roleplaying geeknes "D&D" into a Guildwars clone - is making LOTRO , and that no roleplaying will be there
"Than MMOS are dead to me" he said.....
This is very much the same i feel about roleplaying.
A MMO withouth roleplaying is like cheese and ham sandwich - BUT withouth any spreading.
So you have your cheese and ham and bread , but the whole thing is just to dry to chew.
Everythings there except for flawor....
Unfortunately with influx of new blood into multiplayer RPGs, roleplaying is on its death bed. And perhaps not something you will ever get chance to do...
But the kids do not understand ...
If you do not roleplay in roleplying game you are missing a lot.
You miss feeling imersion , feeling there , being the part of the world and living the perils....
Here is my recepy.
Always roleplay. Do not care that others are not.
Roleplay even just in your mind.
The game will always be much more fun
"Before this battle is over all the world will know that few...stood against many." - King Leonidas
//Woodskull
lol. Good reason. Mine was similar. Then, I discovered that RPers teneded to be cooler to hang with than the hoi polloi ROFLMO players. And now, I enjoy the fantasy of role-playing and look forward to meeting up with guildies to run a dungeon while pretending to be the avatars we operate. I'd play only FPS games if RP did not exist in MMORPGs.
Best Role playing guild of all time--> http://www.shadowclan.org/
I was a member... had a great time...if we ever see another FFA PvP server in a new game there probably will be a branch on it.. and I'll be there....
hmm..have to see if they are going to do Vanguard...
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
When I first started MMOs, it was because of the RPG aspect. I had been doing text roleplay for a few years, and wanted to find a graphical component to match. Over time, I think I've roleplayed for all the reasons listed here- to escape reality, to do the impossible, to make peole laugh. A friend and I made a couple of Mime characters in City of Heroes, and we'd communicate only through emotes - people had a blast with us!
Roleplaying has always seemed a little infectious, to me. When someone greets me as a roleplayer, I have a hard time not responding in kind - I think the "dying breed" aspect of RPers in MMOs today simply fuels itself.
Laura "Taera" Genender
Community Manager
MMORPG.com
In MMORPG's today I don't really RP b/c there is no one to RP with and being by yourself is not much fun. When I was younger, my first MMO was UO and the first guild i joined was the Paladins of Trinsic (RP guild). It was awesome pretending to be a Paladin and they had a whole ranking system like in Medieval times. Plus fighting the Undead and Pirate guilds was fun. No MMO has captured me like UO did and I think it has to do with the lack of RP in today's MMO's.