My best suggestion: Â Get an RP group in either an LS or an FC, this will solve the problem of both "only tavern RP" and making new RP friends. Â Looking around RPC is always good, we have lots of LSs ad FCs around, and/or if you know what sort of RP you are looking for that would advance your character, many times people can help in that way.
While the places above are great, many of them require already knowing people and getting them together to actually RP with any success in them. Â If you go to those places and sit waiting around, you are going to be there quite some time. Â I am going to stick with trying another way to get RP, certainly make use of open nights at inns and taverns which are player created, that helps. Â Find a good group, tell them you want a trial basis as a member. Â Strike out there, and you will find good RP, it is all over, you just have to look hard for it, but once you -do- find it, you will see it in all the places you didn't before.
While the places above are great, many of them require already knowing people and getting them together to actually RP with any success in them. Â If you go to those places and sit waiting around, you are going to be there quite some time. Â I am going to stick with trying another way to get RP, certainly make use of open nights at inns and taverns which are player created, that helps. Â Find a good group, tell them you want a trial basis as a member. Â Strike out there, and you will find good RP, it is all over, you just have to look hard for it, but once you -do- find it, you will see it in all the places you didn't before.