Encouragement

[Ryuoko]

So.. I love Blood Orchid..everyone in it is very wonderful..except tristesse, when she turns into a bear and beats me up..*sobs quietly* but theres a lot of people who are in it, i think just for the pvp, while our -core- roleplays everyone else just kinda follows along and im almost positive most of our members dont roleplay when they arent around us. i was just wondering if anyone had any ideas.. maybe to get them to try to stay in character? Some gentle prodding? I dont want to -force- people to stay in character if they dont want to.. but i -really- would like it if they did. THat being said, im not sure how to go about enforcing this, or even how to bring it up..maybe ill make an example out of someone.. and guild remove them. *snickers* All kidding aside, if anyone has any ideas on how to encourage my guildmates, besides just saying you need to roleplay guys, i would simply -love- to hear them....thank you for your time..!

[Xeran]

I'm not sure what your relationship is within the guild, so ...

If you are not a guild officer, I think you'd need to discuss it with the officers to get people more into the roleplay. If you are an officer, still discuss it with the other officers. If you are the GM, then it's your guild and you can tell them directly.

Some guilds form an OOC channel for OOC communication. The guild channels are strictly IC. The OOC channel could then be muted by those that don't want any OOC communication. An OOC channel should give those that want more OOC talk an outlet and would help enforce (albeit mildly) the idea that people should be in character.

I would also bring it up at a guild meeting where many are present. This should spread the word faster and the fact that you wanted to mention it in a meeting should suggest to people how important you think it is.

You could also respond in character to requests made out of character. And roleplay with other guildmates, even if you just see them in a city and walk over to say 'hi.'

My 2 copper.

[Ryuoko]

Hmm.. i think i will bring it up at the next meeting, im an officer in the guild.. im not sure how well the seperate channels would go, but it sounds like a good idea to me.. thanks for the input, any other ideas would be appreciated. I was thinking maybe.. have like a get together.. or a party or something then -force- everyone from the guild to come.. hehe, then i can see the people who stay ic, and not, and maybe i could politely ask the ones that arent to at the very least, if they arent goint to stay in character to use ((blah)) or just be quiet? I dont want to come off as being mean.. because technically we are a pvp guild.. -but- i want us to be a rp guild as well..maybe making it mandatory to have flagrsp? or is that too harsh?

[Soraxis]

FlagRSP isnt really mandatory, that just helps you see a bit of description but not necessary for RP. If you want to be a RP guild in nature that PvPs I think maybe you should try a different recruiting method. Right now you're taking in good PvPers who apply I presume...but some of them dont RP, why not find people who RP, are willing to PvP but need some honing on their skills? Yeah I guess it takes a bit more effort but you should be able to get a good RP base.

[Nadea]

FlagRSP isnt really mandatory, that just helps you see a bit of description but not necessary for RP.

I agree. I think FlagRSP has really helped our guild and thier roleplay. Each of the officers in the guild have it, and we've all picked titles to represent ourselves. Our other guild members (many of them have FlagRSP as well, and the number is growing!) tend to address us in public by these titles. So it's added some depth into our character interaction. If you don't have the program, I highly suggest it to you and your guildmates!

[Kurohane]

I've RPed with a few people from BO - one of them is even an IC friend of my character's, all the way back from Westfall. :D The best way I've found to encourage people to RP is to inundate them with it. If you're trying to talk about the "f'ing n00b that just tried to gank me zomg" and I keep talking in character, never getting upset or making fun of you, most people wind up slipping into the same manner of talking and RP along. ^_^

[Ryuoko]

well im not saying we dont roleplay at all, just the majority dont, and as for recruiting different people.. where am i going to meet these roleplayers who can pvp? I never leave stormwinds throne room. *giggles* Almost all of our current members were people that grouped with us in battlegrounds and asked to join. we just accepted anyone who we thought was a good person without regard to pvp skill or rp skill..*shrugs* Anyway, I think im going to just pester everyone to download flagrsp. i think it would really help with getting everyone to be one big happy thee thou family.

Hark hark, harkened her?

[Malebrignon]

Here's what I have to say about RP on my guild's website. If it looks useful, feel free to borrow all or part of it. As more of my guildies go to the site and read this, my RP experience gets better and better... and it was already pretty darn good.

We would like for Decimate to be an RP-PvP guild in it's truest form. We would like everyone to be mindful of using both In-Character speech and In-Character motivations when possible. Guild chat (/g) is considered In-Character. You can type "/join Decimate" to join our OOC (Out of Character) channel. Obviously there is a time and place to be out of character, but we'd ask for a few considerations:

#1: Please use brackets (( )) for OOC conversation. Some of us are ALWAYS in-character and others are more lenient. Brackets help those who are always IC distinguish between what their character knows and what their player knows. Brackets are unnecessary for channels designated as OOC.

#2:Please do not EVER be OOC in /s or /y. There is no reason whatsoever to use those channels for OOC conversation. We can't control how other people use those channels, but I would ask all of you to be super-respectful of /s and /y. It really is where the majority of all RP should occur.

#3: While I’m sure all of us are mature enough to handle a few curse words once in awhile, please don’t make a habit of it. We’re roleplayers; we’re more creative than the common curse word.

Everyone has their own definition of roleplaying. It gets defined even more specific when your RP is limited to text and emotes. So, here's a guide to RP do's and don'ts. This is not intended to be a set of "rules", RP how ya want. These are just some guidelines.

*Spelling/Grammar - Use whole words. "u" "ur" "k" "kk" "gg" "plz" These are not words, they are internet short-hand. As an "elitist" RP-type personality, I immediately make assumptions about someone's intelligence and their ability to RP when I see these. Especially in /say or /yell.

*Use Emotes - try "/e sticks out her tongue." instead of " :P " Every emoticon can be converted to text. " :) " or "smiles with joy." Which sounds more RP to you?

*LOL - /laugh /cackle /chuckle etc... When you're not close enough for emotes, try *laughs heartily* or *guffaw* or even just *laughs*

IF THE ONLY THING YOU HAVE TO SAY IS "LOL", JUST DON'T SAY IT. (Granted, this is my personal pet peeve. I'm sure almost everyone in the guild ha typed "LOL" at some point playing WoW. Just remember that I feed a kitten to the anaconda in my basement every time you do it. Do the kittens really deserve this? It's on your heads to make it stop.)

"In-Character" - This is the true gray area. How much does your character know? Does he really know his DPS? Do game mechanics exist for our characters? There's no good answer for this. I consider any discussion of game mechanics to be at least partially in-character. It can be difficult and time-consuming to make it sound "RPish" when you're comparing stats on items.

"Out of character" (OOC): Talking about your character on another server, what music you're listening to, or how much you hate lag, well, those are things for the OOC channel and you'll probably get a friendly "nudge" from one of us Elder types if we notice it in /g. Use the OOC channel freely; it's what it's there for.

I'm sure there's more, but I should probably get back to work. Remember, these aren't rules. You won't get kicked out for this stuff. You WILL lose the interest of the die-hard RPers. If it seems like some of us don't pay much attention to you, you probably aren't one of our favorite communicators. Yep, we're all human behind the keyboard and we WILL play favorites sometimes. I'm here to help anyone in the guild, but the folks that RP with me will get more attention because they're more involved than just saying "will you run me through: (RFC, WC, VC, RFK, SFK, etc.)".

[Ryuoko]

thanks mal thats great.. that is exactly what i want for us.. i think ill use the little cut/paste and post if on our officer boards to see what they think about it.. but wow.. i dont think i could have written something better myself.. *cheers*

[Rhowen-Prea]

Ryu - decided to PM it to you, as someone who's a little more familiar with the inner workings of Blood Orchid than most.

[Garbhan]

And try to organize a meet with us - we're always IC (admittedly, it's easy when your a dwarf, just take out the 'g' in 'ing' words and you've got an accent) and get your lot into rping. We'll have a night out and hit every pub in the eastern kingdoms!

[Sojii]

*sigh*

I hated Blood Orchid ... I really did. Can't stand you. But ... you're so cute! :wink:

I have to like Blood Orchid now ... Thanks Ryuoko ... you have officially spoiled my biggest cause of BG-related crankiness. I can't even get a little rush of pleasure when I frost shock you in the head. :cry:

- please note: the above post is *highly* sarcastic in nature. Now that I know BO is in fact supposed to be an RP guild it just makes me sad that there isn't a horde version I can join. So just remember, though I try my darnedest to beat you fething hard and repeatedly (Kudos to anyone who gets that reference), SOJJII WUV YOO!

[Ryuoko]

haha thanks sojii.. *snickers*

how could you ever hate me? im so cute and cuddly... except for the stabby parts! i suppose... you played against us i imagine? with a character of this name??? *ponders* hmmmm anyway thanks everyone for the advice, and whatnot, it was much appreciated.. ill try to get them into the rping spirit, now that i accidentally leveled to 60 and cant do battlegrounds with them. *sighs* oh well, we level up on tuesday. time for the major leagues! *giggles*