Questions from a lore newbie.

[Kilieit]

MRP in this context refers to MyRolePlay, a popular addon for World of Warcraft that allows, among other things, an IC/OOC status flag to be added to a player's mouse-over tooltip.

[Hixxi]

Yes, that is what I read it as! MRP and TRP (TotalRolePlay) are both very popular RP add-ons for WoW. But really I can live without an equivalent. Everyone's RP profiles are really nice here on the forums.

[LiadansWhisper]

In regards to RPing professions rather than classes: this is definitely an option! But I've always super enjoyed healing type characters. But I think I could get away with doing even a surgeon or almost an alchemist type without relying on magic? That would also be very interesting and fun to RP! It is very good to know that WHM and other classes just don't work well in the setting from an RP perspective depending on what type of RPer you are.

 

I guess the base classes you can choose at character creation are the standardised and more lore-friendly options, whereby a good portion of the higher level jobs are, as a general rule, unique to the 'hero' of the story and 'out of bounds' so to speak? Such as, for example, the WHM lore that has been explained to be on the thread.

 

I thank you all for the time you guys have invested in providing really good information. Learning a new game that is so expansive is a bit daunting but it's always nice to have folks in communities that are newbie-friendly.

 

Okay, so, you can totally play a White Mage if you want to.

 

It's completely doable, you just have to sell it to other people. If your backstory and RP is believable, people will accept you. And there is nothing wrong with that. There are exceptions to every rule, and adventurers are pretty much always exceptions.

 

With that said, you can be a powerful - near-godly, really - healer as a Conjurer, too. And there are subsets to even Conjury. For instance, there are Hearers, who appear to be people born with some natural affinity for Conjury who also possess the talent to be able to "Hear" the Elementals when they speak. The ability does have to be trained, but there are certainly many more Hearers than there are Padjal (or White Mages), and they do play an important part in Gridania.

[Thunderbolt300]

Yes, that is what I read it as! MRP and TRP (TotalRolePlay) are both very popular RP add-ons for WoW. But really I can live without an equivalent. Everyone's RP profiles are really nice here on the forums.

 

The nice thing is that you get a 60-character Search / Examine description for your character natively, accessed by targeting yourself (F1) and right-clicking your target bar and clicking Edit Search Info. It's a lot smaller than MRP or TRP allows, but there's no need for an addon so everyone has it, and 60 characters are enough to add in a small description, a welcome note for RP walkups, and a tinyurl link to an RPC biography.

[Hixxi]

Okay, so, you can totally play a White Mage if you want to.

 

It's completely doable, you just have to sell it to other people.  If your backstory and RP is believable, people will accept you.  And there is nothing wrong with that.  There are exceptions to every rule, and adventurers are pretty much always exceptions.

 

I'd rather not though. I would like to stay away from unreasonable, special snow-flakey situations and I'm not really super into RPing very powerful characters. I'm far more happy RPing a bog standard wandering alchemist with a penchant for healing potions.

 

The nice thing is that you get a 60-character Search / Examine description for your character natively, accessed by targeting yourself (F1) and right-clicking your target bar and clicking Edit Search Info. It's a lot smaller than MRP or TRP allows, but there's no need for an addon so everyone has it, and 60 characters are enough to add in a small description, a welcome note for RP walkups, and a tinyurl link to an RPC biography.

 

This is also very cool! Thank you very much for sharing That tinyurl link does sound like a great idea. I guess the biggest step for me now is thinking about WHO I want to RP.