TL;DR -- As long as you have a good attitude, most folks are willing to work with you on developing your character.
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So you're new to RP, eh? There's a variety of linkshells and free companies out there with a wide array of styles and varying levels of immersion and intensities.
It is true a lot of RP takes place in /p chat but even more takes place in /say. Unless I am getting heavily griefed, I stick to /say regardless of the topics talked of. So I encourage you to hang out at a tavern, eating a meal or something and just go with whatever happens. If someone approaches your shy character, you can just be shy and scurry away or what have you. You could also eavesdrop on someone else's thing.
A very common pitfall I see are folks in one of the adventurer's guilds just emoting, thinking that would get them attention. Depending on what they're doing it might, but a lot of folks think that if they're emoting that they're eating a sammich, that warrants all attention to them... when in reality roleplayers are just like NPCs to other roleplayers... they're people that exist. People that pass each other on the street. When I'm just hanging out I sometimes walk laps around whatever city I am in just to scope out RP elsewhere and perhaps eavsedrop in some fashion (I do a lot of lurking OOC that turns into IC if they poke me XD).
My three characters are: John Spiegel, Alex Silversheath and Grace Silversheath (John and Alex I am on much more). I am only able to play a few days out of the month due to my job, so in about ten days (I think) I should be in-game. If you want to lay down RP just holler sometime. I'll go easy on you (maybe).
So here comes walls of text.
So you're new to RP, eh? There's a variety of linkshells and free companies out there with a wide array of styles and varying levels of immersion and intensities.
It is true a lot of RP takes place in /p chat but even more takes place in /say. Unless I am getting heavily griefed, I stick to /say regardless of the topics talked of. So I encourage you to hang out at a tavern, eating a meal or something and just go with whatever happens. If someone approaches your shy character, you can just be shy and scurry away or what have you. You could also eavesdrop on someone else's thing.
A very common pitfall I see are folks in one of the adventurer's guilds just emoting, thinking that would get them attention. Depending on what they're doing it might, but a lot of folks think that if they're emoting that they're eating a sammich, that warrants all attention to them... when in reality roleplayers are just like NPCs to other roleplayers... they're people that exist. People that pass each other on the street. When I'm just hanging out I sometimes walk laps around whatever city I am in just to scope out RP elsewhere and perhaps eavsedrop in some fashion (I do a lot of lurking OOC that turns into IC if they poke me XD).
My three characters are: John Spiegel, Alex Silversheath and Grace Silversheath (John and Alex I am on much more). I am only able to play a few days out of the month due to my job, so in about ten days (I think) I should be in-game. If you want to lay down RP just holler sometime. I'll go easy on you (maybe).
