I don't really ever RP in party unless we're supposed to be at someone's house that doesn't exist or something. If I do anything in /say people are welcome to react, come over, whatever. The other day we did RP in /party at the hot springs because there were trolls about, but we even invited a dude into it we didn't know because he sat down next to us.
My FC generally always tries to get people involved in things who are outside the FC. You'll actually notice Dennthota running around doing this a lot and I've had some awesome RP sessions because Denn is like "INVITE EVERYONE, DO THINGS". I appreciate Denn for that, he tends to be a lot more outgoing on that than me as I tend to worry I'm bothering people.
THAT being said, its really up to the individual player wither or not they want to rp with strangers or rp with their friends, and we probably should try to guilt them into changing their mind? When you RP with people your comfortable, they understand your RP style, your character back story, they're probably apart of your storylines that you can talk to them about without someone going "THAT'S NOT EXACTLY LORE." or "THAT IS SO STUPID, LET ME SOLVE ALL YOUR PROBLEMS WITHOUT ASKING.", you can RP fight them and not have to worry about them constantly overpowering you, you can get into a romance with them and know they aren't taking it too seriously.
That is comfortable. And it's their 15 dollars, they are allowed to use it to be comfortable.
Getting to know strangers can be daunting, just like real life. Will this person like my backstory? Will I ever see this person beyond tonight? How deep should I go into things? Will they just talk about themselves? Are they just gonna hit on me? How many "Hello, I'm ____" so I have to do before something sticks?
Should people get themselves out there and RP more with strangers? Yes, it's always good, but I understand it can be scary. I rolled a character, Armi, with the specific mindset of wanting her to go out and meet new people, so she tends to get involved with conversations and meet people. I rolled Loki to not care about that, though she does tend to be chatty at a bar. We also have to consider the character mindset. Maybe they just don't care your standing 5 feet from them, and that's okay. We shouldn't force all characters to be chatty.
My guild also has about 7 or 8 people who rolled Garlean evil alts specifically to antagonize people who want to be antagonized (You can hire our villiany ways at our forums in the Bad Guy Inc Section: http://nightblades.shivtr.com/forums/1005125 - you don't even have to register to post!) and this has actually become quite a boon, we've been hired out before and it worked wonderfully. We even have people not in the Night Blades who have rolled baddies to help plan terrible things! When we don't have anyone interested in hiring us, we generally Antagonize ourselves and our alliance guildies over at the Grim Echo. It's made for some really fun storylines.
We try. We do what we can.
On Events... My guild wouldn't really set up events, it's not really in our nature, but I would like to see more. Maybe an event planning committee of some kind? I know there are a few, the Grindstone on Saturday's and the Wineport thing is trying to start but the organizers never show up >.>. A lot of people seem to be going there anyway though.
My FC generally always tries to get people involved in things who are outside the FC. You'll actually notice Dennthota running around doing this a lot and I've had some awesome RP sessions because Denn is like "INVITE EVERYONE, DO THINGS". I appreciate Denn for that, he tends to be a lot more outgoing on that than me as I tend to worry I'm bothering people.
THAT being said, its really up to the individual player wither or not they want to rp with strangers or rp with their friends, and we probably should try to guilt them into changing their mind? When you RP with people your comfortable, they understand your RP style, your character back story, they're probably apart of your storylines that you can talk to them about without someone going "THAT'S NOT EXACTLY LORE." or "THAT IS SO STUPID, LET ME SOLVE ALL YOUR PROBLEMS WITHOUT ASKING.", you can RP fight them and not have to worry about them constantly overpowering you, you can get into a romance with them and know they aren't taking it too seriously.
That is comfortable. And it's their 15 dollars, they are allowed to use it to be comfortable.
Getting to know strangers can be daunting, just like real life. Will this person like my backstory? Will I ever see this person beyond tonight? How deep should I go into things? Will they just talk about themselves? Are they just gonna hit on me? How many "Hello, I'm ____" so I have to do before something sticks?
Should people get themselves out there and RP more with strangers? Yes, it's always good, but I understand it can be scary. I rolled a character, Armi, with the specific mindset of wanting her to go out and meet new people, so she tends to get involved with conversations and meet people. I rolled Loki to not care about that, though she does tend to be chatty at a bar. We also have to consider the character mindset. Maybe they just don't care your standing 5 feet from them, and that's okay. We shouldn't force all characters to be chatty.
My guild also has about 7 or 8 people who rolled Garlean evil alts specifically to antagonize people who want to be antagonized (You can hire our villiany ways at our forums in the Bad Guy Inc Section: http://nightblades.shivtr.com/forums/1005125 - you don't even have to register to post!) and this has actually become quite a boon, we've been hired out before and it worked wonderfully. We even have people not in the Night Blades who have rolled baddies to help plan terrible things! When we don't have anyone interested in hiring us, we generally Antagonize ourselves and our alliance guildies over at the Grim Echo. It's made for some really fun storylines.
We try. We do what we can.
On Events... My guild wouldn't really set up events, it's not really in our nature, but I would like to see more. Maybe an event planning committee of some kind? I know there are a few, the Grindstone on Saturday's and the Wineport thing is trying to start but the organizers never show up >.>. A lot of people seem to be going there anyway though.
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