Question on rp

[Golbez]

Originally posted by Kuiper7986
If your playing an RPG most likely your RP\'ing in some form its just that you probably not realizing it. Every step you take, every monster youfight, every person you talk to is considered RP\'ing because your assuming the role of someone else in this case it\'s your game character/avatar.

Not quite 100% correct.

I can take as many steps as I want through my character, fight dozens of hordes of monsters, and explore the world as much as I want.

But if every time my character speaks he does so out of context (ie: Shouting about selling a \"Sword of l337-ness +9\" or discussing about the last movie I have seen), it is not roleplaying. You are just using the game as a glorified chat room with some gameplay elements.

RolePlaying means assuming an imaginary life for a few moments, controlling a character that does not exist (and very importantly, is not -you-), in a world that is unreal, and living an artificial life.

That is why talking l337 is not RolePlaying. That is why Runescape is not RolePlaying. That is why a huge number of MMORPG players are not truly RolePlaying.

- Golbez

[dfryer]

What game features could specifically encourage roleplaying?  While we want more than basic hack and slashing, that is what happens at the \"game mechanic\" level and it is in some way up to the players to roleplay.

The impression I get is that PS GM\'s will be encouraged to discourage obvious breaking of roleplay boundaries & general stupidity;  hopefully this will make an environment that attracts people who are willing to flesh out their characters beyond what their skill points and inventory have to say

[Mezasa]

I don;t see whats wrong with not being a RPer. I am some of the times, other times I don\'t feel like being something I\'m not...

People should be allowed to talk how they want, no matter what its about (to an extent, no ToS violations, of course!)! The only real rule should be no 1337 speak. People that have bad english(which there a few, as we have already seen this early) will be exceptions though, mainly becasue you can still tell if they are trying to speak properly or are just being stupid.

That\'s my two cents, and I think it is the only thing that will actually work. It allows anyone to play, even powerlevelers, but still keeps the chat clean. Just having proper grammar should be enough...

[Zeraph]

Usually if you RP with someone for a while ether the conversation gets repetitive or stupid or drifts to ooc stuff. Sure you can keep it going for maybe an hour but after that there really isn?t much to say, if you find someone you like RP?ing with you sort of want to get to know there ooc self, I doubt many of the famous ?couples? of PS never talked about ooc stuff after a while?

mmoRPg?s are very different from the classic RPg video games, I never played DnD or other tabletop RP games you play with other people. RPG video games basically fed the story to us, not we can talk to people while making up are own story.

It really is for me a way to meet new People & make friendships not really a way to meet new made up Characters.

[sozin]

an excellent guide to RPing in MMORPGs can be found here:

http://www.avlis.org/world/Gruush_RPGuide.pdf

the emphasis is on NWN but the ideas still apply here