1) When arranging for RP with a player I am not familiar with, I comb through the forums and wiki to see not only what their character is like but also to get an idea of what the player might be like.
2) I generally can't say "no" when people I don't know ask me to RP with them. But that often leave me in the quandry of trying to think up an interesting scene/hook/twist/something/anything for that random encounter. It often delays the actual meeting, some don't even end up happening for whatever reason and I feel bad about it. I should sometimes just tell myself "oh just let it happen, it doesn't have to lead to anything." But as others have mentioned in another RP thread, context is so SO important to me.
3) I have a list of people I want to RP with that I haven't gotten the chance to yet. The list comes from browsing through the RPC where there are players/characters I really want to encounter somehow, and yet I can't think of a proper context in my character's current timeline/story to do so! So... I don't. But I read their IC/OOC posts on the RPC and go "-sigh- someday!"
4) I am horrible about spontaneous open world RP. I used to just walk around Ul'dah in my early days, or read a book in the Quicksand and open myself up to random encounters. Now... everything is scheduled ahead of time. I kind of miss those days, but I also recognize that my character's story is at a point where she doesn't just hang out at a bar. And my online playtime has to be balanced between RP and PvE so, prearranging RP seems to work the best for me.
2) I generally can't say "no" when people I don't know ask me to RP with them. But that often leave me in the quandry of trying to think up an interesting scene/hook/twist/something/anything for that random encounter. It often delays the actual meeting, some don't even end up happening for whatever reason and I feel bad about it. I should sometimes just tell myself "oh just let it happen, it doesn't have to lead to anything." But as others have mentioned in another RP thread, context is so SO important to me.
3) I have a list of people I want to RP with that I haven't gotten the chance to yet. The list comes from browsing through the RPC where there are players/characters I really want to encounter somehow, and yet I can't think of a proper context in my character's current timeline/story to do so! So... I don't. But I read their IC/OOC posts on the RPC and go "-sigh- someday!"
4) I am horrible about spontaneous open world RP. I used to just walk around Ul'dah in my early days, or read a book in the Quicksand and open myself up to random encounters. Now... everything is scheduled ahead of time. I kind of miss those days, but I also recognize that my character's story is at a point where she doesn't just hang out at a bar. And my online playtime has to be balanced between RP and PvE so, prearranging RP seems to work the best for me.