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Kilieit · **05-28-2016, 12:53 PM**

Hi I wrote a lot and I'm bad at making it seem like I'm not giving concrete instructions so to set the tone for the post: these are intended as tips from my own personal experience, not You Must Do It This Way Or You Are Wrong! I hope it helps a little.

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Practicality tipsI have an alternative universe where I RP my character as one of two Warriors of Light, along with my levelling partner. Usually, to be honest, we do the dungeon itself OOC - there's a time limit on how long you can spend in the instance (90 minutes), during which you have to both complete the instance and whatever roleplay you wanted to do. If you don't do it fast enough, the game kicks you out, and you don't get quest credit.

And... to be sadly honest... dungeon combat itself isn't very immersive. You have to stop typing all the time to hit things, or else you become overwhelmed by the real-time game mechanics and die. Especially if one of the people roleplaying is tanking or healing. And then the combat is over, and you can't roleplay your character as having done anything extra-cool or true to themselves in it.

What we usually did was we would complete the dungeon, watching all the cinematics as we went (there's usually 1 at the very beginning and 1 just before the final boss), then afterwards - once we were done and out - talk about how our characters had acted and what sort of state they would be in after what just happened. Then we'd decide which scenes from the dungeon were most interesting to RP, and do them in text format.

The most important (and potentially problematic) part there is the watch all the cinematics part. Most pick-up groups found via the Duty Finder will expect people to skip the cinematics, and although it's impossible for them to run ahead of someone watching the cinematic at the start of the dungeon, they could still drop the group - and the last thing you want is to be locked out of the last boss room because they ran ahead of you there.

But if you're RPing it, then you don't want to skip the cinematics, either - the one time I did skip a cinematic because I felt it was taking too long, it turned out to feature my favourite character and a major plot twist... so you might want to find a light party's worth of RPers to go in with just so you know the group won't charge ahead of you while you watch them.

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P.S. ...most of my characters have affiliations with the Adventurers' Guild, so they could potentially be assigned to do something like this. My main's in-game name is Aghurlal Qar'akimusun, so you'll have best luck contacting me there, but you can have the services of any of these characters of mine if you need someone to fill a spot in the group, and/or RP Sastasha/Tam-Tara/Copperbell with. I have at least one tank, one healer, and one DPS in the mix, so I can fill whatever role you have left as long as I'm free at the time.

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