As a new but adamant RPer, I can honestly say my experiences with RP have been about 50% good, 50% terrible. There are a lot of selfish and/or OOC dramatic members in our community who seem to harbor unfair grudges against new rpers or pvers. A lot of good RP gets ruined by rpers who don't play well with others, and only think for themselves. Therefore, our community gets an unfair rap (I'd like to point out there are a lot of selfish pvers too)
A lot of RP hate that I see comes from rpers 'ruining' dungeons by being IC when running with straight pvers. I personally don't see the problem in this; the game is meant to be fun, and I just don't get intolerance towards other people's approaches to having fun, unless it seriously inhibits other people's fun.
I think Yini has it right; a lot of misconception can be dispelled from kindness. Gently informing them that they rolled on an unofficial RP server, so that they'll see a lot of us, would be a good way to break the ice ^^
A lot of RP hate that I see comes from rpers 'ruining' dungeons by being IC when running with straight pvers. I personally don't see the problem in this; the game is meant to be fun, and I just don't get intolerance towards other people's approaches to having fun, unless it seriously inhibits other people's fun.
I think Yini has it right; a lot of misconception can be dispelled from kindness. Gently informing them that they rolled on an unofficial RP server, so that they'll see a lot of us, would be a good way to break the ice ^^
