Where is the RP?

goladon · May 2013

I haven't really seen quality RP much since Ultima Online. I'm beginning to think that mindlessness of button clicking weeded out the people who actually have in-depth roleplay, because I haven't really seen it since then.

Are there any groups out there who actually RP? You'd think Dungeons and Dragons would be the game to find it, but I find it's really turning into a COD crowd of rogues and CMs.

erisande · May 2013

I like to think of myself as an avid roleplayer - and a good one.
People have said so before too, but.. I like to let people decide for themselves.

Hit me up. @Erisahnd on Mindflayer.
I'm leveling mostly right now and still working out my character background.
But I'd love to RP whenever.

loverboyusa · May 2013

Last time I checked it was in my bedroom. Tonights RP is Hospital Visit. Come one come all.

lonewarrior7 · May 2013

lol, they need to make a server/shard DEDICATED to RP, like, RP takes complete priority in the server (2nd storyline, 3rd whatever your choice)

galvayra · May 2013

I have yet to see two people talk to each other outside of the zone chats and the moonstone mask . I remember a time when you were in character at all times all day long back when i played neverwinter nights. Nowdays is just grind for gear and sit in a tavern and talk about your life.

You can solo everything, other people have been reduced to NPC status and they call this **** evolution of the genre <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font>

sylvialynn · May 2013

I would kill for some rp, so far I yet to see any rp guilds on Dragon. Would make the game way more fun.

vatasha · May 2013

RP is what you make out of it. Which means just RP and others will join. Yup you will get a few that will troll you but I just normally add them to the RP as the village idiots

However nothing in a computer game matches good old table top RP

ordensmarschall · May 2013

I would like to RP a bit, but that would mean people would actually have to stand still for more than 5 seconds. Once they managed to do that, then to actually say something. As has been noted in a couple of threads, people have run entire dungeons with 4 others and never say a word. I am hoping as Neverwinter matures we get more D&D features, including the RP.

destinyknight · May 2013

galvayra wrote: »

Nowdays is just grind for gear and sit in a tavern and talk about your life.

^ This right here!

My god that is right on the money. When I come in the Moonstone mask to Rp with my character, that is all I hear going on. No one else attempts to do anything. I've gotten a few people to doing stuff in the rest of the game in character like doing dungeons and skirmishes and such in Rp. But those few who even show interest in doing anything but sitting/standing around silent or talking about thier life or any other thing that would get boring pretty quickly when everyone else is around doing the exact same thing.

Even when others Rp, or try to join in, I see others just ignore them or no one else bothers to really try to join in to anyone elses Rp. (and who would with what was stating above, most characters arent just going to walk right into a conversation with someone going on about thier life. )

I Rp with my characters openly. So I'll be glad to Rp with other people in every aspect of the game. If anyone would like to add me for that add @destinyknight and @Reagenlionel1

And feel free to send an IC message if you'd like or OOC message to let me know you're adding me to Rp with from time to time.

I have characters on both Beholder and Mindflayer

steppenkat · May 2013

If someone is interested in RPing, hit me up in-game, I'm usually playing with my Sunite.

My handle is @steppenkat.

elazaeroth · May 2013

I've roleplayed on Neverwinter Nights 1 for a near decade now? And I still play on the roleplay servers there. Most notably Prisoners of the mist ravenloft, sigil: planar legends (which I helped make) and Sinfar which still pushes around 140 roleplayers every night on its server.

I am on Dragon shard in Neverwinter. I'm however told Mindflayer is where the RP is at. So much so that you can apparently walk down the street and see paragraps of emotes everywhere. Regardless I'm in an rp guild on Dragon server.

Look up www.Mythweavers.org

I joined them lastnight and I've already run Into buddies from Neverwinter Nights 1. They seem to be utilising the foundry instances as places to roleplay in.

My handle is elazaeroth, seek me out!

mistysummer · May 2013

A lot of the rp communities have choosen mindflyer to play on. I know for sure Neverwinter RP and Shadow have anyways.

You might have more luck finding rp on that shard.

veiran2 · May 2013

There's always http://www.neverwinter-rp.com/ as well. My theory is people will settle down and get into RP a bit more once they've had a chance to build up their characters and whatnot since the game is still new. I know there's a good few people just waiting for the right Race/Class combo to be released so they can make the RP character they really want to get into.

morinox · May 2013

RP is minimal due to the fact that the majority of the players are kids, coming straight outta Call of Duty Black flop 2, who has no intention of doing RP, no knowledge of what RP means.

Every time you try to RP openly, they'll go like "LOL XD", "rofl wtf? RP?" etc.

As someone else said, the foundry is definitely the best place to RP. Still, it's a shame that we have to use the foundry to do it in a DnD mmorpg to avoid all the "leet" kids...

Back in the old days i'd play NWN1 and play on private RP servers where you'd get perm banned for using stupid names and not RP'ing. Kind of like a safe haven for RP'ers. Still play it on and off.

I think kids only notice the "mmo" tag and ignores the "RPG" tag that comes after mmo. They also behave quite litterally the same way they do in these bloody FPS games they play. Nerd raging both ingame, and on the forums (Nerf, sniffle sniffle, your game sucks etc etc, spamming the ingame chat with utter bullcrap and so on...) I mean, just take one look at the FPS game forums like Call of Duty black flops 2 forum and you'll see... Heck, try playing one of those games with voice chat activated and you'll go mental within 1 minute...

They play F2P mmorpgs when they're bored of their FPS games, nerd rage a bit here, then waste a buttload of money on this game, then call names, shouting out that the game is an epic fail and it sucks bla bla bla, then they go back to their regular FPS game after getting slapped around in a PVP arena/battleground/etc, rinse and repeat.

And people wonder why i hate most kids playing mmorpgs... They're like a disease... No, seriously, they are...

Ah well, my fishing rod is calling. 28 celsius outside, clear blue sky. No time for gaming or forums!

goladon · May 2013

What we need to develop is an intact, self-sufficient and open RP community. A guild open to everyone, but with strict RP requirements. Unfortunately I don't have the time to run this, or I would.

morinox · May 2013

goladon wrote: »

What we need to develop is an intact, self-sufficient and open RP community. A guild open to everyone, but with strict RP requirements. Unfortunately I don't have the time to run this, or I would.

It's a good idea, even better if it can teach others the meaning of RP'ing and letting them see how much fun you can have doing it. I know in WOW there were players who made their own tight knit RP communities that didn't want any newcommer to join them (Experienced that one myself being shunned by the RP community on my server because i didn't want to RP the way they told me to RP) and so on. In the end those communities got disbanded because they were too few and too elitist...

I know there are those who want to learn more about RP'ing and those players should get a chance to get involved in it...

xanos900 · May 2013

on mindflayer there is a good rp going on.
about 5-15 people in the moonstonemask at all times.
about 90% know rp rules. almost no trolls.

hycinthus · May 2013

Unfortunately too many trolls in Dragon. And I should have guessed. If you were presented with 1)Dragon 2)Mindflayer 3)Beholder, guess which one all the trolls and kids will pick, especially if they don't know anything about D&D? Dragon.

wednesdaywoe13 · May 2013

xanos900 wrote: »

on mindflayer there is a good rp going on.
about 5-15 people in the moonstonemask at all times.
about 90% know rp rules. almost no trolls.

Does not compute. There are almost always 3-5 trolls/RP-griefers at the Moonstone Mask on Mindflayer. It's what they do for fun while waiting for queues, though some have taken it to new levels of stalkerish behavior.

At the end of the day this is a Cryptic game, and there is something about Cryptic games that draws some nasty and thoroughly unlikable creeps. Dealt with it in CO, then in STO, and now NW.

shafuq00 · May 2013

hey guys, i would like to understand what you mean by role-playing. don't get me wrong. i have role-played for years during my childhood. but that was always with my brother. we weren't gonna do that stuff next to friends to get picked at

I'm an old school DnD fan. i loved DnD and its universe since i can remember. but sadly i haven't had experience with DnD for decades. before playing neverwinter online i thought THAC0 was still used. its been over 20 years since i had that experience and FUN! even though i played BG and other RPG games through the years they were all solo and all in my imagination. i know I've overgrown my previous role-play style. yet i really wonder how is it now? i never role-played online. (there was no online back then)

give me some insight. please people, don't ignore this post. let me try to understand what/how it is. who knows maybe an all-time-Raistlin-fan will join your ranks

PS: this isn't my main account. just one i opened for testing a few weeks ago.

bman1978 · May 2013

sylvialynn wrote: »

I would kill for some rp, so far I yet to see any rp guilds on Dragon. Would make the game way more fun.

I rp a lot and I am on dragon...please don't kill me

lordofscorn · May 2013

I'll be honest, I haven't roleplayed at all yet; nor do I even do it that much, compared to when I was younger. I'm still too busy leveling and trying out things with all the classes and exploring the game. I have limited time now days, and it's just hard to squeeze in everything I want to do, so it's usually something I start doing when the newness wears off or I get tired of content or I'm not pvping. I do a bit of everything in my games.

destinyknight · May 2013

lordofscorn wrote: »

I'll be honest, I haven't roleplayed at all yet; nor do I even do it that much, compared to when I was younger. I'm still too busy leveling and trying out things with all the classes and exploring the game. I have limited time now days, and it's just hard to squeeze in everything I want to do, so it's usually something I start doing when the newness wears off or I get tired of content or I'm not pvping. I do a bit of everything in my games.

Im doing the same, though Im doing all that while Rping as well. You dont nessecary have to wait until later to Rp, you can Rp while you do those things.

wintersmercy · May 2013

Reinforcing elazaeroth's words, the guild I'm in - Mythweavers - is a roleplay guild on Dragon (our recruitment post is here).

We've had a few big events, there's a lot of impromptu roleplay, and we've got a few volunteer DMs running a plot (which will mostly be done through the Foundry). We don't tend to use the Moonstone Mask much, we have a variety of guild Foundry maps we use, and the Tower of Alteration in Protector's Enclave is another favourite.

impervium · May 2013

Once I settle in more, I'll do just what I did in City of Heroes for four years. RP 99 percent of my time in the game, almost all of it while adventuring with other action RPers. In other words, focusing on heroism, NOT standing around being bar flies.

How do you do this in a combat-oriented game, you ask? Same way we've always done it. RP going into a mission (the lead-in), between big fights here and there (campfires are going to be a great thing I think) or at particularly scenic/dramatic locations within or between instances, and finally after an instance or adventure is over. Maybe hit the tavern like real adventurers, AFTER an adventure.

Doing all of this, keeping the focus on FUN, not making the adventure tedious, comes with practice, and developing a gut-feeling for pacing--and the ability to listen to your teammates and guide them without controlling them (don't be a control freak!).

Like always, I think a great party leader reads his party's profiles, listens to their stories, and finds ways to tie the in-game content to his party members lives in order to have an "adventure that matters", with personal weight--and avoids tying most adventures to himself (don't hog the spotlight if you're the narrator!). If nobody develops their character during a series of adventures, the adventures were wasted--and I'm not talking about leveling up, if you get my drift.

I did this for four years in City of Heroes. My friend list didn't lie, after my first year it was filled with so many repeat teammates that I never had to join a random party again.

That sound good to anyone here? Send me a friend request and I'll put you on my new list. Gotta start somewhere. (Note my @handle is in my forum signature, it's not my forum name.)

Like I said, I'm settling in like many others, getting to know the 4E/Forgotten Realms lore, soloing a lot in /hide mode. Give me some time and give the RP community some time. We're here. Lend us some patience. This game world is going to be a blast.

notsosweetness · May 2013

Sounds like I am on the wrong server. Although I see Dragon shard mentioned a little. My problem is I am from the old 2D world of RP, mainly tavern RP but a little forum RP. Forum RP does not come easy to me. I have to work hard at it due to difficulties of translating what is in my head to paper.

I would love to join in and help encourage more IG RP. Quest/dungeons with groups to me feel more like a footrace. No time to stop and enjoy the environment the graphic artist provided. Lol..at the very least talking smack about the end boss when you see them for the first time. Some need to get out in the sun more. Others need less, noticed an end boss recently that reeeeeeeally should have been told about sun screen. Neverwinter for sure could use some dentist. I’m only lvl 50 so I am sure there are lots more critters for me to have fun with. Right now I’m having to apologize to my Dire wolf Trickster constantly hoping that was not a relative of his I just killed.

I do miss DDO's water. I could never pass it without having water fights, middle of quest or no. Waterfalls were a time to wash the 'critter' guts off you that you had just slayed. Then the rest of the dungeon I would RP seeing myself starting to glow or start to see strange growths starting and wonder what had been in the water. I might not be the best RP’er, full of fancy words, but most just grumble at me and think I'm nuts.

So please...even if someone is awful at it, be encouraging. If RP is restricted to only those who are great at it, then RP vs. grind will never take hold.

destinyknight · May 2013

Im with you with the Rp while questing and dungeons. I try to get some people to come out with my character to do something more than sit around a tavern and talk about their life. I also encourage new Rpers, I am not hostile at all, my character isnt snarky either to make any walk ups seem hostile.

notsosweetness · May 2013

I've never really seen anyone in the taverns. I assume you are talking about zone taverns. The enclave chat is so full of WTS and WTT spam it is worthless to try and use for RP where you could really get some people to react. Only been to the Moonstone tavern a few times. Danced on the stage with the other women but they pretty much ignored me so I figured they must have a union thing going or something.

I am Whyllyst on Dragon Shard if any RPers see me about please give me a shout. I love to have fun during quest. I just warn you...I love shiney levers. Neverwinters even sparkle. I do at least resist them in epic runs now. -her brow breaks out in a light sweat as she repeats to herself...must resist....must resist-

((yes, I did the **** of all noobs acts on one of my first epic's in my first and only other 3D MMORP, DDO. I pulled a lever that wiped the whole group. lol..everyone but me of course. Good thing it was just my guildies and that the guild leader thought it was funny.))

BTW...you know that net that runs along the Moonstone outside platform? Don't trust it. -leans in close and whispers...I bet the Dev gods made it transparent on purpose, just so they can sit and watch betting on how long it takes you the ground-

ordensmarschall · May 2013

I think that those of us who like to RP will find each other eventually, especially once the shards merge.

ali495 · May 2013

So, I've been wanting to try out roleplaying. I'm a bit alarmed with the superiority complex some roleplayers seem to have though... like people who don't roleplay in MMOs are somehow less, kids, or only play COD. (Is playing COD an insult or something?) Last night I saw some people talking in the roleplay channel about how much they hated people who use chatspeak, like they were inferior too.

Turns me off a bit, honestly. Is this how the roleplay community really is or are these just a few comments making it look that way? =\

flibbitigibit · May 2013

Hello, Tanduil D'larizz here, representing my stout halfling employer Boigo Bristletoes, He is currently indisposed praying to Torm for blessing on his hunting of gnolls on the shores surrounding the once great Neverwinter. He told me he also wished there were more true hearted adventurers in this world who share a common goal of seeking deeper meaning to life in the depths of caverns or in the bowls of a thieves den. Well I'd best be heading back, the stubborn midget is bound to get himself killed without my help.

toddeloo!

Where is the RP?

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