Proper RPing

[DanMacNWN]

Oh yes, I agree with having to grow into one's class ... especially since I'm not all that certain on how to act as a priest of Aeridin and am 'learning' along the way. I haven't been here long enough to notice the PCs who simply do not RP their character class ... its a shame when that happens.

[Vyris]

*Running - I run when I am solo, I walk/run/walk/run when I am grouped with a few like minded people. And if we need to hurry I'll say IC "We should hurry.

*Sleeping in town - Sometimes I'll hit enter wrong and start typing and hit 'r', I think I am typing... right up to the point where I hear myself snoring... whoops.

*Healing others with no RP - Not likely, Vorax doesn't like me healing just anyone ya know.

*//comments - *sigh*

Vyris

[DanMacNWN]

I hate it when you fall asleep in what you thought was the middle of a sentence ...

[feniox]

Just a quick summary here:

I only run when I am by myself and if there is nobody else around, if people can see, or i'm in a group then I will generally walk, or run if they are running.

If i'm going to sleep/rest but don't want to use the Inn, I will always make sure I'm out of sight, in behind a building or somewhere else, which I think is better than sleeping in the road.

On the subject of healing without RP, I generally do both. With my Dwarf (Kurgaz) I generally help people wherever it is needed, as it is in his personality to be entirely selfless at all times. My other main character is the other end of the spectrum entirely, and will help nobody but himself, or somebody that he is grouped with/can gain advantage from, as he will not waste his time irritating his deity (Baraeon Ca'duz) without "good reason" behind it.

[Gunther]

Well, I've only been on for the grand total of one day so far (Its great by the way), but I can see why somebody would rest in the middle of town.  I mean, after constantly running around town, you'd have to be a bit tuckered out and might need a nap.

Seriously though, I spent some time in the military and can pretty much say that if I was out in the field, I was usually pretty exhausted and could sleep anywhere.  We sometimes did sleep on the side of the road.  One time for about a week as we moved about.  I couldnt see it on a busy city street certainly, but if you're tired enough and its a rural area (like Hlint for instance), I could see it happening.  On the other hand, if I'd had an inn nearby...After several months of training one time I fell asleep on an airplane and slept through the takeoff, the flight and woke as we were landing about six hours later.

As for the running, that might be pushing it really.  But again, in the military (which is about as close to adventuring as I ever really want to get), you had to move like you had a purpose.  Even if you were just going to the on post Burger King to get a Whopper with cheese.  I'll agree that running through people is uncalled for though.

As for the OOC, I havent seen it yet, but I'd have to agree.

I could see a higher level halforc/ogre/giant giving strategic advice.  I knew infantry guys who were dumber than a box of rocks, but they could somehow recite the infantry field guide and apply it.  Thinking outside the box, not so much, but they were proficient in standard tactics, cuz its what they practiced and did IRL day after day.  And in retrospect I think some of them might have been half-orcs IRL.

Ummm, no offense to any infantry guys out there.

[Vyris]

re: People sleeping in town.

sometimes you may be catching someone about to log off for the night as well, just saving so they log in where they want to next time. Theres a lot of reasons for what people do. If there were a game that was realistic in every sense I believe it would quite possibly be the most tedious thing in the world.

Vyris

[Etinfall]

RE:hitting the r key on accident- I went into the key settings and changed my sleep key to the minus sign in the number pad. HArdly ever use that key in conversations so I don't fall asleep in mid sentence. just a tip. (oh Ice Dragon led me to that one, thanks Ice

My ranger will find a hidden area too fall asleep, if he doesn't goo to an Inn or his home, or his guild hall. Usually next too a tree.

Running-rp it, if you cant rp it walk.

playing your class, that is up in the air. A druid has certain things that need to be done, but there might be a reason as to why they are doing something different. Ie, something happened in a battle that has made him crazy or something. But I think I understand what you meant. Not playing your class just to be tougher and to survive so you can lvl faster, not good.

there are a lot of new faces lately. Some have a good understanding of rp and some are doing it for the first time. We need to help them in a nice way. I tried to mention to a character the other day something and it came out wrong and I believe he got upset, It was not intentional. I was just wanting to mention that there was a better way to rp something.

A pet peeve of mine(and relates too the mention above). I log on and instantly get a pm like this- Hey, where are ya, lets go adventuring. This is a little bothersome and can be rp'd better I think. Even if the pm was more like this-*a hawk drops a note at your feet and it reads yadda yadda yadda...* When I say pet peeve, that is a very small one.

We need to remember, and this has been said before, that this is a game. If I don't laugh once in awhile then something is wrong. If Zero makes a remark and has a line from a movie, but goes along with the conversation he might get a tell from me saying *that was funnny;) If Ii want complete realism in a fantasy world I will read a book or watch a movie. It is fun to hear how each of us comes up rp.
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Holy moses I typed a lot.

naaaa, I am not gonna spell checj it either

Etin

[Nuzatch]

Heh, the movie line thing reminded me of that theory that if a thousand monkies sat at a thousand typewriters and typed for a thousand years, one of them would eventually write Shakespeare.  In that context, who's to say that one of our more witty characters wouldn't think of something like that.  I'm just waiting for the day I can use "I'm here to kick arse and chew gum arabic.  And I'm allll outta gum arabic."  It's within the context of the game, still holds alright for rp, assuming it's something the character would say, and gets a good laugh all around, which I think is important.  

As far as tells, a lot of people probably get tells from me along the lines of "Have our characters met?"  Mostly because I can't remember names to save my life, but my characters do, so it's nice to be able to do as sort of a double check so I don't blunder some RP.

If there's one thing that annoys me more than anything, it's people deciding to "Not waste that person's time" because they appear as Impossible to them.  Or are high level, well known, etc. etc.  I really wish we could code a piece of ducktape over that challenge rating, so everyone just looks like regular people.  Heck, even monsters.  I'll admit when I first came to the server, I tended to sneak a peek at the CR on monsters to see what they were to me.  But I've found it's far more fun to dread that fight against whatever monster, and so after careful preperation you walk up and take it out in one hit.  Or on the reverse, it's great to see a small-looking enemy, run up, only to get your backside handed to you.

So in short, quit lookin at the bloody CR of people! .

Also, talk to people!  My newest character, Wind, doesn't talk unless he has something relevant and important to say, and even then it can be rare, so don't feel shy to be the first to say something.

Go Mets.

[Rasterick]

Very valid points everyone. There is a place for all sorts of styles of RP, as long as people try and behave in the manner their character would, and that whatever is done is done with consideration to others. Ask the question, 'If I were my character, would I really do that?'

Ok, so I ocassionally make quotes from modern history and the media. But as Nuzatch quite rightly says, if a thousand monkeys ... . Its my attempt at a little humour.

What we all need to realise is that this place is meant to be fun, moderate things that you have seen posted as 'annoying to others', if pople do something excessively such as '//OOC', then I am sure a polite reminder would do no harm. This place will never be perfect(pretty close though), and as its popularity grows (as I have seen it do over the last month) its player base will increase, so many more  variables and styles wil be added to the RP mix, it is the duty of the more seasoned of the community to guide and tutor where necessary.

Regarding viewing characters challenge rating, and levels. try and refrain from looking what it is, whats the point in doing it? you cant pick a fight with them.

Also is it possible to modify the server status page, so that characters levels are hidden from immediate view, as I believe this is also a source of the 'Can't talk to them, they 're to high a level', and conversely, 'No you can't come with us you are only a level 4' symdrome. By all means ask if they have any experience in giant slaying and state that it will be dangerous and not to charge in etc etc, but you dont know what level they are. In most instances lower level players would decline on the grounds of it being to dangerous anyway. Unless the really suicidal ones. RP the situation.

Final thing....

'This is a Compound mahogany hunter bow, probably the most powerful bow in Layonara. the question is; Have I fired five or six arrows of piercing? tell me Drow, do you feel lucky? well do ya? Go ahead make my day

Cool I will hve to use that.

 Hmmm! I will have to save up for the bow first.

[DanMacNWN]

I have to say I am guilty of looking at people CR but it is because I came from a server that would penalize you for RPing with someone 4 levels higher or lower than you because they hadn't adjusted the XP for kills right, and people would find low level character and bring them along on adventures in order to make more xp per kill ... power gaming!

[FlameStrike]

There's nothing wrong in using tells here, feel free to chat as much as you like using them.

 One thing, however... Tells should not be used for IC information, use them only for OOC chatter.