(01-17-2018, 01:29 PM)Symphony Wrote: There is a similar thread about this subject but it was from half a year ago so I decided to start a new one.
I'd like to hear people's thoughts on something I've been struggling with since I started RPing in MMO's. I have been roleplaying for many years on different mediums, although it's been quite a while since I've been an active part of any kind of RP due to a lack of time and people to do it with, and it's always been fine and dandy until I started venturing into in-game RP.
I'm the type of MMO player who sees their character as themselves rather than something they control, so when I want to RP in-game I want to immerse myself in the world and the lore and for the most part my character is speaking and acting as I would and with that there is a bit of blur between IC and OOC which I thoroughly enjoy. This goes against what has become the norm of RP (at least from my perspective because I seem to be unique in that I have been part of multiple RP's where that type of RP was common in the communities I have been part of) where players are basically authors and the characters they play are completely separate entities from themselves that they develop on paper ahead of time and plan scenes for and have tumblrs for. While I don't see anything wrong with this type of RP and practice some of it as it is a basic part of roleplay, I don't see my character as some type of puppet I manipulate since my character is basically me.
So my question is: what is this type of RP called so I can find like minded people who would like to do things like quests and dungeons ICly? Or am I in the wrong business altogether? ^^;;
This is what I do with a few friends. Last year upon returning for Stormblood I DMed an IC dungeon delve campaign for them in Palace of the Dead, all the way up to floor 100. We also did a couple of IC dungeon runs, such as the final battle in Ala Mhigo. Playing a tank makes it easy. We routinely ignore the tumblr cliques, and the game's already-existing canon tools like linkpearls and aetheryte teleportation make IC communication / meetups easy.
Your best bet is to look up FCs with similar themes and check out their guild forums or Discords. Another method is to check the recently updated pages section of the player wiki to see who's active and seeking contacts. The biggest challenge is logistics and getting concurrent timezones - which is when you may wish to consider starting open forum post RP or Skype post RP with others.
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