Role Playng in PS

[blubasso]

hello all,
i introduce myself: my name\'s Stefano and i come from Italy. My char\'s name is Shannath Lobos and maybe someone of you saw me around PS.
I am an old Role Player Master, and older Role Player: it\'s 23 years i RP (the first 7-8 years as player the others as Game Master). This is my first time on a MMORPG.
When i arrived on PS more than go around and kill monster i started to try to RP with other player but not often i found someone who really role play...
I think the reasons are many: first of all we must know each other so \"who are you, where are you come from...\" and so on. It should be natural to try to know someone but we must think that IN GAME we aren\'t Stefano, John, Sharon... but we are the character. So: when someone ask who are us we should answer with the char\'s name and so. We can use the forum or PM to know us in this side of reality. Yes: i said \"this side of reality\" because if we really role playng in that moment we ARE our character and we should act as him/her, so PlaneShift is the real world and \"the other world\" not.  
An other reason should be that someone doesn\'t know HOW to role playng: not all people play RPG in this side of reality or he/she is not interested in RP but simply try to be as better as possible such as the Most-Important-Warrior or The-Great-Mage-Ever-Born or so. It\'s ok: all play how they want but shouldn\'t forget to act. I found characters who even answer if you in game ask \"hello, how are you\"? Ok: if the char is an antisocial person is good but i think not many people are so antisocial to give neither an answer...
I don\'t want to teach anything to anyone because i\'m here not for teach but for fun as all of you, simply i needed to tell this to try to build a really playng community.

Any discuss will be welcomed

Stefano

[Draklar]

Roleplayers usually hang out in tavern, not fields ridden with monsters...

[blubasso]

I\'m not agree with you, Drak, we should act always in the game, in my opinion, because PlaneShift is not only a tavern or a wasteland but all-in-one. So if we act in tavern we should act somewhere else. Or not act at all...
I think we have 2 differen way to see the same stuff, but it\'s ok. I like to discuss :-D

[Phinehas]

You\'ll have to forgive Drak. This topic is by no means new, and quite frankly, if you\'re talking about it on the forums, then you\'re in the wrong place. Most of the people here ARE RP\'ers. It\'s the trolls, noobs, etc. in-game that are the problem.

[Asenar Lunin]

I totally agree with Blubasso!

And by the way, what kind of rp would you play all?

This question is not about the background, which is already here, but for example,

if you say hello to someone, you are not supposed to know his name if you never saw him before... Noone have a sign post on his head to writte is name...

I remember someone who I asked his name, he answered me nicely to check up of his head :p
I will not reveal who is it :p

[Draklar]

You have two scenarios:

You roleplay in one place. Meet new people, encourage roleplayers to stay around. Finally go on quests etc together.

Each roleplays somewhere else. That consists most likely of max 2-3 roleplayers in one place. Valuable newcomers who don\'t know who is roleplayer and who not, get discouraged by lack of roleplaying.


-- Most quests start in taverns.

And there\'s not much you can disagree with. Most roleplaying happens in tavern nowadays... that\'s a fact.

[Phinehas]

Exactly, which is a good indication of how poorly RP is doing in PS. The few times I\'ve been to the tavern it\'s been empty.

[blubasso]

\"This topic is by no means new, and quite frankly, if you\'re talking about it on the forums, then you\'re in the wrong place.\"

Phineas, if i put it in the wrong place sorry me but i thought that such topic was good on \"general discussion\". I\'m sure someone did the same discussion but i didn\'t find it and, my opinion, it\'s better to remember it many times. This because the community always growing... I\'m very glad here is a strong RP community :-D

\"And by the way, what kind of rp would you play all?

This question is not about the background, which is already here\"

Asenar, the char\'s personality come out from his/her background, as in reality...  My char have a good personality and like poeple so if someone ask me who am i i said him/her my name and a little explanation of who i am. But i don\'t tell all of my char, obvious, as in reality. If the 2 chars become friend i open my soul to him/her if not it\'s enough the few informations a gave him/her.
But i act so because the background of Shannath lead him in this way.

Stefano

[blubasso]

\"-- Most quests start in taverns.

And there\'s not much you can disagree with. Most roleplaying happens in tavern nowadays... that\'s a fact.
\"

Drak, for you to roleplayn\' is to go in tavern and act a little only to get players to slay monsters or explorating the world?
For me roleplayng is also talk about, in exemple, my little sister who died drowned in a lake near my childhood\'s house or telling stupid jokes about dwarven or elves, and not only in the tavern.
It is true that, as i saw, most RP is in the tavern but we all should act outside it too.

[jorrit]

Originally posted by Asenar Lunin
I totally agree with Blubasso!

And by the way, what kind of rp would you play all?

This question is not about the background, which is already here, but for example,

if you say hello to someone, you are not supposed to know his name if you never saw him before... Noone have a sign post on his head to writte is name...

I remember someone who I asked his name, he answered me nicely to check up of his head :p
I will not reveal who is it :p

I don\'t agree with that. You should RP in PS according to the world you get with PS. And in the PS world you actually see names on top of people. Not taking advantage of that fact is just weird IMHO and invites useless questions.

To me RP is about having a story you are involved in. It is not about technical details from seeing or not seeing the name floating on top of someone\'s head. That is not crucial to the story.

Greetings,

[Draklar]

Originally posted by blubasso
Drak, for you to roleplayn\' is to go in tavern and act a little only to get players to slay monsters or explorating the world?

Huh? I said most quests start in tavern because you say we should go out. Adventurers usually don\'t go out to hunt monsters just-like-that. They need a reason behind it and often such reasons can be found in taverns, since they are places where various people (those who look for job and those who offer it) meet.
Myself, I rarely leave the tavern. Usually talk with people, used to serve drinks and sing from time to time.

Also, did you read what I said? If you scatter roleplayers all around the area then how will you encourage newcomers to roleplay? That\'s not easy if they have no one to roleplay with.

This is quote from you:

When i arrived on PS more than go around and kill monster i started to try to RP with other player but not often i found someone who really role play...

[Phinehas]

*supports Drak even though he\'s a pansy tree-hugger*

Seriously, Drak is soo going to win this argument.

[Xen]

im always in the tavern, i go out once in a while to go up the tower or something but i usually just stay in the tavern

[Kiva]

Is there a point to this thread except telling how bad roleplaying is in PS, or should I just close it until someone has something pointy-ish to add?

[Phinehas]

I could be wrong, but I think they made you a mod so that YOU could make those decisions, not ask us.