(07-02-2017, 10:36 PM)Missing Aria Wrote: Hello! Â Fellow Altoholic here! Â I'm actually on Balmung but I wanted to take the time to welcome you to the game! Â It's a great setting for RP so I'm sure you're going to have a blast! Â I got my RP start on forums and didn't discover MMOs till later on either. Â When I came to this game I played till around... Oh I think 30 or so before I made an RP character and started fleshing them out, because the story can be overwhelming at first. Â So needless to say I think you're going the right route by learning the story and then fleshing out your characters. Â
I will say that my policy with new characters tends to be to make a general idea in your head of who and what they are, think of what the major, important things are... Then let them tell you their little quirks and whatnot. Â I never told Missy that she's a tea addict, she told me that herself. Â So don't stress too much about making your characters yet, just enjoy the game!
Thank you, friend!
And yep, I'm just working through the MSQ, bumbling along and seeing how my main develops from that. Unless I have prior knowledge of the setting (like I did with SWTOR, being a Star Wars fan and having played the KOTOR games), I tend to just... Flail about until I get a handle on lore. Start with a few big tropes/archetypes, and go from there. i remember when i started GW2, having never even heard of the original, and now my list of characters there is known as 'the Never-Ending Character List' lol
I think I'm more intimidated by just how much control we have over the way emotes are executed and displayed. Being able to do just the motions, while tweaking facial expressions is amazing, but overwhelming. I got my RP start on forums as well, and still vastly prefer forums/IMs for RPing, partially because having to manage a character's actions in-game is usually so tedious and a little too much for me.
But, might as well give the RP scene here a try and see what happens~.
