RP nerd thread!

[AlteredOne]

Small world, I know Harperella on the Lord of the Rings Online Landroval server, just saw that video yesterday.  Furthermore, I was in Paelos' guild in DAOC (Boarshead), and I remember our mutual lurikeen mage friend quite well. 

As you can see from the video, RP is quite vibrant on our LOTRO server.  My own kinship, Hobbiton Philharmonic, is a music band playing everything from "traditional" medieval music to our own versions of modern pop and metal.  Harperella actually organized Weatherstock, the largest festival in LOTRO history, with several hundred participants.  Might as well brag that our band won the crowd popularity prize    It was a ton of fun playing for a huge crowd, right on top of Weathertop, the hill where Frodo got cut by the Nazgul.  Harperella's kinship even organized guards to keep down the local monsters, so that any low-level players could attend in that unsafe location.

Besides the music thing, there are a ton of roleplay kinships on Landroval.  My own kinship mainly does what I'd call "light RP" in the context of the music, making up backstories and even lyrics to go with the songs.  Others get more serious and act out elaborate stories, many centered around the town of Bree.

It's interesting to hear about roleplay on DAOC's European servers.  I wish we'd had those kind of events on the US servers.  Personally I didn't really RP there, beyond getting into "realm pride" for RVR.  Like another poster, my guild tried to hold "our" keep in the frontier, and tried to RvR together.  But you just didn't see the kind of RP that I see in LOTRO, largely I think because DAOC didn't have the kind of rich backstory provided by Tolkien.

[Ingmar]

DAOC could have had that much backstory and more had Mythic bothered to put even a little of it in, it isn't like the source material was lacking.

Instead we got obstacle courses in Atlantis, plant people, and freaking corn and pumpkins in our housing art. 

[Malakili]

I thought this was somewhat relevant.   The GM (edit: ex GM, he stepped down and let someone else take over due to real life stuff, forgot about that) of my old WoW guild is holding an RP event to give away Uther's Tabard.  Earthen Ring is an RP server, and though most people don't take it seriously there are a lot of people who came as RPers who later turned to raiding simply because WoW turned out to be a crap game for RP.  This sort of thing is about the very best you can do in a game like WoW, and like I've said before (maybe here, i don't remember), you could effectively do all of it in a chat room with the same result.  


http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=25026666647&sid=1

[Sjofn]

Ahahaha, I fuckin' TOLD you people Moon Guard's Goldshire was extra special!

[Simond]

Follow up to the Moon Guard thing: The GM's apparently decided to nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure summon L80 elite demons into the inn because there was basically too much 'roleplaying' to police.

No, really.

[rk47]

Summoning Satans to drive away prostitutes?