(06-25-2015, 01:02 AM)Thorgar Wrote: am I the odd duck out? I actually run my raids In character and do just fine (admittedly on the games im not new at lol). My wife and i are used to RPing during quests, raids, dungeons, or even out farming. We are no slouches when it comes to playing pve either, she was the top raid healer for her everquest 2 server for years, and i was ranked #3 tank on city of heroes virtue server for more than a year.
I have always seen RP as being in character while you play the character not stopping and pretending to move places while all talking in a circle. I run pathfinder games on Saturdays for that lol.
Am i just misunderstanding the RP talk? (the terms do seem to change everytime i turn around... yay getting old lol)
While there are a collection of players who RP within the main scenerio quest, I think the RPC has a wide variety of characters, many of which take on a much...lesser role in the story? I've found most are about standard NPC/city-NPC tier, generally without the Echo or Warrior of Light statuses. Some may go so far as to only roleplay a class and not a job, should the game's lore present the job as a "only the main character who is super special can become this".
That is not to disuade you from RPing what you like, however! I think a balance and perhaps even a gradient of characters and their abilities is what makes the game feel so alive. When one can be a simple city-dweller up to the hero who saves the day, it allows for a very diverse amount of roleplay to occur. That said, a low-fantasy minded player/character is not likely to mesh well with a high-fantasy minded player/character. It's just the nature of RP. It is expected that people be respectful of others' playstyles (even if you can't take their character seriously or anything else)
((in terms of my own roleplay, Franz is certainly not the main character. Or even that skilled in his matial abilities. But he's durable. And has a mess of problems that are fun to work through, although they certainly push some of the lore to its limits.))
