DISCLAIMER: This is just an introductory post about role-playing in World of Warcraft. It is not meant to tell you HOW to role-play or change your current role-playing method. This is really just an unofficial look into the various types of role-playing you might see or experience in the game. ^_^
Lets start RP’ing!
If you’re new to RP, don’t be frightened. RP’ing doesn’t make you a nerd, a dork, a geek or a loser. RP’ing is for any player who wants to interract with other players in character. That means you drop the pretense of being the average human and pick up the facade of being a Night Elf, Dwarf, Orc, or Troll etc. The aim of RP, above making yourself unique in a world filled with “the most beautiful” and “the famous”, is to have fun and convince others to have fun as well. In fact, lets keep that as a mantra for my posts: “Have fun above all else.”
The best place to start is on a Role-playing Realm. I play on numerous RP Realms: Farstriders, Kirin Tor, Sentinels, and The Scryers. If you’re feeling adventurous, try an RP-PVP server: a Realm that allows you to both kick ass and RP at the same time. At one time, there were strict rules about role-playing on RP Realms: strict adherence to RP-names, not breaking character, and more. But RP Realms are a little more — shall we say — relaxed these days. Still, they’re called RP Realms for a reason.
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May 19th, 2008 by captainskyhawk
Woohoo! Only a little bit more to go. My NE priest just got there this weekend, with help from Nina.
I went ahead and made me a pair of Imbued Netherweave Boots and Imbued Netherweave Pants (even though I’ve been able to wear the latter for a while).
I’ve already made my Imbued Netherweave Robe, because it’s a lot easier to make than a Primal Mooncloth Robe — 12 Primal Mana are hard enough to find, even if you have the money! I’ve got the other two pieces of the Primal Mooncloth set (the shoulders and the belt), but the Primal Mooncloth Robe will have to wait.
Alrighty, alrighty. School’s done, I’ve had a week to rest, and now I can finally play WoW and write an entry here! Yay!
In my hiatus, I did some thinking about this blog. I honestly didn’t want to write any more “As Kahlah I went and did this” posts again. There are a lot of blogs out there, and there are a lot of blogs about World Of Warcraft. And of those blogs about WoW, there are a lot about playing Hunters. Unfortunately, with every new Hunter blog that pops up, there are ten old ones that are better and have covered the same topics already. I’m not trying to insult the other Hunter bloggers out there, but really — the market is SATURATED with Hunter blogs, especially Hunter blogs about how to play Hunters. There’s got to be something else to write about.
As far as the game is concerned, I am a BAD WoW player. I don’t play all the time. I don’t raid, so I can’t give enlightening tips about how to raid effectively. I don’t fight with any particular panache, so I can’t write about methodology. I am a girl that games, but I don’t call myself a gamer. My technique to playing the game is so elementary it would make bloggers like BRK cringe — I just stand there, let the pet tank and shoot. Sometimes I shoot Viper Sting, and other times I use Scorpid Sting. It really doesn’t matter to me. My theory of any game playing remains pretty gestalt: if I kill it before it kills me, then things are good. If not, I’ll have to res and try again. I’m not particular about any sort of science that goes into a game. I really just want to get the damn beastie dead so I can get my loot and finish the quest.
And then it came to me…why not change the focus of my half of the blog to role-playing?
A swell idea! From now on, I will be delving into the risky subject of role-playing (that is, in the game #^_^#). I’ll be talking about different role-playing areas, role-playing ideas, and role-playing techniques. Hell, I might even cover LARP-ing too. I think it’s a good way to use this college degree in English that I’m getting…
