Post by ooc admin 1 on Aug 1, 2004 7:59:33 GMT -5
For the beggining RPer here are some tips and advice.
1. RPing is about acting, and using your imagination to write the script in real time. The goal is to see things through the eyes of your character, and react and feel as your character experiences things and interacts with others.
2. The best way to see things from your character's eyes, is to begin with thinking up a history. You have complete freedom here to write a history that makes your character who they are, and why they are the way they are.
3. Take time and write down some goals that you want to achieve for your character, then think about stroylines you can create to help your character achieve these goals. It is often neccessary and desired to ask others to help you, "In-Character" with things in the game. This allows others to get to know your character and become part of their lives. Facing and overcoming things together makes strong bonds of friendship.
4. When creating a history or a storyline that you would like to Roleplay out, try to keep it founded with some truth and believablitlity. Another way to say this is, try to use what the game already provides as structure, so that when things are done, they have real value and are more satidfying. Example: We could stand around and pretend we are killing a creature, or we can select a mob in the game and let it become the creature that must be slain. Example 2: One of the goals of your character is to craft items, so figure a storyline which fits with your character to open your own crafting shop, or make it a skill you learned from childhood growing up.
5. Ye Olde English isn't a requirement for roleplaying. It is actually quite unusual for most of the races to speak like that. To get a feel for how someone of your race speaks, talk to npcs around your hometown.
RPing is not against leveling your character or gaining new abilities and such, its about viewing those things from a personal point of view of your character.
Lastly, make yourself available to other people's storylines or guildwide planned events. If someone has an interesting thing happening, get in on it and enjoy the ride. No doubt they have put together some cool story that will effect their character, and by participating, you will find deeper friendship forming between characters which ultimately forges friendship of those behind the keyboards.
1. RPing is about acting, and using your imagination to write the script in real time. The goal is to see things through the eyes of your character, and react and feel as your character experiences things and interacts with others.
2. The best way to see things from your character's eyes, is to begin with thinking up a history. You have complete freedom here to write a history that makes your character who they are, and why they are the way they are.
3. Take time and write down some goals that you want to achieve for your character, then think about stroylines you can create to help your character achieve these goals. It is often neccessary and desired to ask others to help you, "In-Character" with things in the game. This allows others to get to know your character and become part of their lives. Facing and overcoming things together makes strong bonds of friendship.
4. When creating a history or a storyline that you would like to Roleplay out, try to keep it founded with some truth and believablitlity. Another way to say this is, try to use what the game already provides as structure, so that when things are done, they have real value and are more satidfying. Example: We could stand around and pretend we are killing a creature, or we can select a mob in the game and let it become the creature that must be slain. Example 2: One of the goals of your character is to craft items, so figure a storyline which fits with your character to open your own crafting shop, or make it a skill you learned from childhood growing up.
5. Ye Olde English isn't a requirement for roleplaying. It is actually quite unusual for most of the races to speak like that. To get a feel for how someone of your race speaks, talk to npcs around your hometown.
RPing is not against leveling your character or gaining new abilities and such, its about viewing those things from a personal point of view of your character.
Lastly, make yourself available to other people's storylines or guildwide planned events. If someone has an interesting thing happening, get in on it and enjoy the ride. No doubt they have put together some cool story that will effect their character, and by participating, you will find deeper friendship forming between characters which ultimately forges friendship of those behind the keyboards.