(The RP Debate) Instances and You

[Abric]

While the poll gives the question - the meat is what you have to say.

Why did you choose the answer you did? What is your thought behind it? The good? The bad? The ugly? The story?

[Abric]

I roleplay EVERYWHERE.

I roleplay with EVERYONE.

Nobody is safe from my roleplaying... even the l33t kiddies in the battlegrounds.

While I make few exceptions (4 hours in Alterac Valley. A full Teamspeak 5-man group. Seducing Lilly with my ability to cook and do laundry.), the chances are if you approach me... it will be my character.

Even WITH those exceptions, it is always with brackets. ALWAYS. There has been some mess up's, sure... but they so few and far between I don't count them.

Why? Well... it's just the way I am. My character is a bit "easy" to roleplay - in I don't have an accent and I type 140+ words per minute. I don't have much issue with on the spot things - and I understand that a simple "patrol" or "/incoming" is just as effective as "add", "pat", and the beloved "zomg!"

[Alucian]

Coming from a year on a PvE server, my automatic reactions are not RP. If we need more CC, I call for more CC. If we're going to sap that guy, poly that guy, and heal the tank HEAL THE TANK, then that's what I'm gonna say.

If I'm with friends, we'll RP in /s while in instances sometimes. Most of the time, we'll RP about the instance after the instance is done.

Though, if I manage to get into the random pug that wants to RP in the instance, I'll do my damndest...or just stay quiet. Either/or. I respect the wishes of those around me.

[Aquizit]

I can't do the accent in the heat of battle or giving orders in a raid or PvP setting... So, I tend to not roleplay in instances or in groups.. unless it's casual or I'm speaking in Dwarvish.

(Since Dwarvish is my native language.. Why would I have an accent in it? ;) )

[Chavie]

changing history muthafuckas

[Aquizit]

-Grins.- Not only that, but I also don't use my accent when writing as Pylith... after all, he knows Common, just the Dwarvish speech patterns mix in, hence the accent. But.. since there's no such thing as that when it comes to written language, his written Common is also just as perfect.

[Tyrsza]

Chavie, your dialect intrigues me. Why does your character speak that way? How did you come up with it?


Okay, on topic: I try and stay ic with brackets around ooc stuff in instances, but I also go by what the group is doing. I find the dwarven accent to be really easy to type, sometimes on an alt I'll cacth myself starting to type with the accent.

[Fhenrir]

What's an instance?

I spend all my time these days PvPing.

[Caelyn]

It really depends on who I'm with. For the most part I'm always IC, I have yet to find a situation where I couldn't RP my way out of, like the god Laagg that lives under the Bank in IF , or "I'm in need of more wool. Scarlet Diviner give me wool!!" aka "Sheeping Scarlet Diviner"

Although there are some people that get upset trying to "figure out wth I'm trying to say" so I do tone it down. But for the most part I always play IC, even if it is to be drunk in the middle of SM yelling about the injustice of being called "tainted."

[Fallacy]

Everything except raid chat. For some reason, it's impossible for me to keep it IC in those things.

[Danyxandra]

I like to stay in character when I do instances. Unfortunately, however, the majority of groups I've been in over the years across a dozen games don't RP in instances so I'm left with just shutting up and doing my job, which makes the instance boring, which turns me off to any dungeons/raids/end game period.

Furthermore, it's been one of my pet peeves with PUG's as well, so I don't do them and always roll a character that I think I may be able to solo well enough to not depend on them so I can remain in character.

[Xeran]

I have been in some groups that have RPed during an instance, and I love 'em for it! But, for the most part, I just try to get through the instance. So I'll be in character if they are and not if they aren't. I've had to pug it a lot so it's always hit or miss as to whether or not I'm with RPers. *sigh* I tend not to be IC in battlegrounds for the same reason: pugs. Though I have been in one battleground where we were RPing. It was great. It was a hell of a fight too. The score ended up 2:3 Horde, but it was a lot of fun.

[Xeran]

I like to stay in character when I do instances. Unfortunately, however, the majority of groups I've been in over the years across a dozen games don't RP in instances so I'm left with just shutting up and doing my job, which makes the instance boring, which turns me off to any dungeons/raids/end game period.

Furthermore, it's been one of my pet peeves with PUG's as well, so I don't do them and always roll a character that I think I may be able to solo well enough to not depend on them so I can remain in character.

I've been having the same experience. Sadly, I created a Paladin and my alt is a Druid ... so I can't solo as effectively. I also have a 40-somthing hunter on the back burner. GAWD, if I stuck to one character, I'd have an epicced out 60 by now. And I'd be bored out of my mind.

[Chingaso]

Chingaso always Chingaso. Not know anything else.

[Chavie]

ouch it hurts to rewrite ooch ooch ooch ouch ouch ouch CRAZYPANTS

[Kurohane]

Coming from a year on a PvE server, my automatic reactions are not RP. If we need more CC, I call for more CC. If we're going to sap that guy, poly that guy, and heal the tank HEAL THE TANK, then that's what I'm gonna say.

If I'm with friends, we'll RP in /s while in instances sometimes. Most of the time, we'll RP about the instance after the instance is done.

Though, if I manage to get into the random pug that wants to RP in the instance, I'll do my damndest...or just stay quiet. Either/or. I respect the wishes of those around me.

That's pretty much the same with me (imagine that, both of us coming from the same server and all...). It's especially difficult for me to RP when I have a good, fast-paced group. The most down time I find for any RPing in those, anyway, is mana breaks. Even that doesn't last past a line or two. But yeah, having played on a non-RP PvE server for so long, it's second nature in an instance to start spouting out OOC orders and info in /p. /s is a whole 'nother world, though. :D

To be honest, one of my most fun experience, though, was running SM Armory with Liadain and Celethorn. Lia and Kuro were having a nice little chat the whole way through. Whenever they moved onto a topic that Cele wasn't very fond of, he'd start throwing himself into mobs without waiting to heal up at all. XD I was dying laughing.

[Rasta]

...I have yet to find a situation where I couldn't RP my way out of, like the god Laagg that lives under the Bank in IF , ...



hahaha, that made me laugh heartily

[Malebrignon]

I make party chat OOC, but continue to RP my way through instances. I always try and warn people that even in OOC, I'll usually be partially in-character. A lot of the times I'm working with at least one or two people that 'Brig has not met in an "IC" sorta way, and that makes me/him quiet as he must "appraise" them and decide how he'll speak to them.

[Grainger]

Grim rules are RP in /party, /raid, /say and /yell. Its not that hard to do if you put a little effort into it and practise.

Its only for ZG and AQ that we have other ooc channels to coordinate healing, crowd control, melee, everywhere else is IC all the time.

[Syreena]

ALWAYS.

It gets kind of weird sometimes in party of people who aren't RPing, but I still stay in character. I just don't respond to chatter that can't be taken IC (talking about alts, for example). If it's something that needs a response OOC, I use the (( )).

I don't find it difficult at all to stay IC. One word commands or warnings can be IC, like trap, sap, patrol, etc. It takes very little, if any, extra effort to stay IC instead of going OOC.

Sometimes people will even join in the RP by the end of the run. Chavie, another Grim, and myself were once in Razorfen Downs with two non-RPers. We stayed IC the whole time, and by the end of it, one of the non-RPers was trying to talk like Chavie. :)

[Mortica]

I sicked Mr. Wiggles on Golemagg the Incinerator.

Then I kicked him when he didn't comply.

Then someone kicked me for kicking the pig.

Does that count?

^^

[Chavie]

Sometimes people will even join in the RP by the end of the run. Chavie, another Grim, and myself were once in Razorfen Downs with two non-RPers. We stayed IC the whole time, and by the end of it, one of the non-RPers was trying to talk like Chavie. :)

the good days don't come again

[Alucian]

I sicked Mr. Wiggles on Golemagg the Incinerator.

Then I kicked him when he didn't comply.

Then someone kicked me for kicking the pig.

Does that count?

^^

Heal the tank! HEAL THE TANK!

MR. WIGGLES has DIED!

D'oh. 8O

[NorthFace]

I sicked Mr. Wiggles on Golemagg the Incinerator.

Then I kicked him when he didn't comply.

Then someone kicked me for kicking the pig.

Does that count?

^^

Heal the tank! HEAL THE TANK!

MR. WIGGLES has DIED!

D'oh. 8O

THAT'S A F*$KING FIFTY DEE KAY PEA MYNUS!

[Karkarov]

Mr Wiggles is powerful and mysterious, and his mystery is only surpassed by his power.

[Soraxis]

I have pictures of me being the size of mr wiggles *nods sagely* true story!

[Sinthe]

For those who were talking about being unable to roplay sometimes due to the inability to type out an accent, you could consider the Lore mod. It will let you set it so it will automatically accent your speech, with you typing normally, I believe.

[Aquizit]

Technically I still RP in /raid and /p and stuff.. ALWAYS /g and /s and /y...


But when I need to type really fast in a middle of a fight/battle.. the accent goes out the window.

[Vilmah]

Mr Wiggles is powerful and mysterious, and his mystery is only surpassed by his power.

DAMN STRAIGHT.