I always wondered how much should one rp'ing engine related actions, while you are not seeing /hearing anyone around yourself.
As playing a warlock char mainly and skilling magic is just using the same spells over and over again untill either mana runs out or you finally get a swirly or the cap hits in, I can't be bothered to rp any of my magic, if I'm the only one to see it anyway, its not only boring but mindnumbning enough, that chars are basicly forced to pg ceratint skills just to fullfill their role, but if I finally find an empty place and noone is around, why should I rp in these cases?
I understand if you fight against Npc's and simply let your chars make comments on either the situation or ~speaking~ with the monster in question, but teleporting oneself trougth empty landscapes and then being forced to rp it on top is just so much more annoying, because the skill system is after all unforgiving, either you train your skill and waste your time on it or you suck, there is no middleground in it.
So after this rant I shall come back to the former question, how much should one rp, even if he/she is the only one to even hear it, no npc's or pc's around.
How much should one Rp, while he is alone.
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Roleplay, in my eyes, is only done when there are other PCs around. When you are alone, there is no need to RP. As soon as you hear or see another PC, you'd have to RP.
I find RPing without anyone else nearby senseless, for RP is based on cooperation and creating a story together. Which is rather hard when there is not a together to be had. I'm actually quite surprised you made the effort while alone.
Good way to practice though.
I find RPing without anyone else nearby senseless, for RP is based on cooperation and creating a story together. Which is rather hard when there is not a together to be had. I'm actually quite surprised you made the effort while alone.
Good way to practice though.
I personally rp very often in single mode, most when my char visiting the grave of his wife. But that is more or less a a special way of char-reflecting. By training alone it would be just to boring for me if i would only click around, i need to write some nonsense to amuse my self. But anyway, you are never ~really~ alone ig, some hidden char or gm can ever watch you - so i think rp if you are single isnt useless.
The only time I rp when I am alone is when I run into these terrible invisible force fields that otherwise can be walked upon. I usually:
kicks the invisible spot.
relieves himself over the spot.
casts a lightning bolt to try and dispatch the force field.
poor a bucket of water over the spot.
ask for an archmage ring.
fondle.
summon an aggressive undead.
does a jig
kicks the invisible spot.
relieves himself over the spot.
casts a lightning bolt to try and dispatch the force field.
poor a bucket of water over the spot.
ask for an archmage ring.
fondle.
summon an aggressive undead.
does a jig
Eliza will tell anything for a fish *winks*Shenandrea wrote:At times it would be rather embarassing what Borgate has to tell about everyone in the tavern, if he could speak. The same for the NPC in the library.Sssari wrote:Nearly forgot! Rping with Borgate=Always accepted and required.Kamilar wrote:I like to hit on the NPCs. I just love the rejection.
In fact and even though they tend to ignore you if you use improper words, Borgate and Eliza are much better roleplayers than many players :
- they emote quite often and never just to excuse ctrl-click-attacks
- they never attack anyone without a reason. In fact, i've never seen them attack anyone at all !
- they never ran into the middle of some nifty RP talk asking "wanna fight ?"
- they never abused an engine weakness
- they never spam ingame
- they never talked 1337 or used shortcut speech
and my favourite :
- they both have a steady char concept and never joined an "evil" guild just because they mistook "being evil" for "character depth" !
So guys, better take them as example !
- they emote quite often and never just to excuse ctrl-click-attacks
- they never attack anyone without a reason. In fact, i've never seen them attack anyone at all !
- they never ran into the middle of some nifty RP talk asking "wanna fight ?"
- they never abused an engine weakness
- they never spam ingame
- they never talked 1337 or used shortcut speech
and my favourite :
- they both have a steady char concept and never joined an "evil" guild just because they mistook "being evil" for "character depth" !
So guys, better take them as example !
Still some NPCs make my day, especially when no one else is around!
RPing with Hagar in the Nordmark tavern, is such a pleasure from time to time...
But my favourite NPC is Borgate. He always *Arrh!*s in the right moment. Great guy.
Single player rp is not quite as good as playing together with others, but it can be really good from time to time. Especially for character development it is always good to rp some hours on your own.
I think everyone should do what they please when alone ig. I don't care if you fight monsters or cast spells without rp when alone. As long as I don't have to watch you doing this...
Still I won't start pging without rp background, and also not without rp in between the auto emotes. It is simply too boring!
RPing with Hagar in the Nordmark tavern, is such a pleasure from time to time...
But my favourite NPC is Borgate. He always *Arrh!*s in the right moment. Great guy.
Single player rp is not quite as good as playing together with others, but it can be really good from time to time. Especially for character development it is always good to rp some hours on your own.
I think everyone should do what they please when alone ig. I don't care if you fight monsters or cast spells without rp when alone. As long as I don't have to watch you doing this...
Still I won't start pging without rp background, and also not without rp in between the auto emotes. It is simply too boring!
Role-playing alone is a good way to inform yourself more of your character. Repeating the same emotes over and over doesn't accomplish these things, but I've spent much time in the past role playing various situations of fishing and cooking on an open fire. Despite how devastatingly boring this is, if someone approached me I always had a much more interesting way to explain what I was doing rather than just saying I'm working on my fishing.
Your character is formed by the things he does when he is alone. There is a point in which role playing alone can become mundane and unproductive, but there is always good reason to experiment when bored or want to take a break from working on skills.
Your character is formed by the things he does when he is alone. There is a point in which role playing alone can become mundane and unproductive, but there is always good reason to experiment when bored or want to take a break from working on skills.
I find playing rp for myself rather boring, simply for the fact that it frustrates me, that I'm wasting my time on a skill that I normally wouldn't even care about.
Selfreflection after all is a good point, but I'm not doing this to amuse a gm, after all, if a gm is watching you, would it not be rather enjoyable for the Gm to actually go out and play something, he doesn't even need to be some kind of well known char, taken over npc's or simply animals/monsters hold a good cup of rp aswell.
If you want your char to evolve on its own there is always the ability for him/her to writte some kind of notebook or diary, you can do that even while playing illa at the same time, so thats more usefull than writting a few useless sentences to an empty screen, while I wait for a chance to rp, but I guess everyone has his/her own way to get into the mood of rp'ing, I just think that self reflection is better done withwritting a diary, after all you cna even post said diary on the forums to let people enjoy your work and maybe understand the way of their chars lives, sadly people always go and abuse such things.
But after all I would like a clear statement from the Gm's to this case, I have no problem rp'ing magic, if someone is around and if I happen to come across someone, while practicing this stupid skill, I will snap back into rp, but is there a need for writting..something that will just break the monotony of the auto emotions or is it just a recommended option?
Selfreflection after all is a good point, but I'm not doing this to amuse a gm, after all, if a gm is watching you, would it not be rather enjoyable for the Gm to actually go out and play something, he doesn't even need to be some kind of well known char, taken over npc's or simply animals/monsters hold a good cup of rp aswell.
If you want your char to evolve on its own there is always the ability for him/her to writte some kind of notebook or diary, you can do that even while playing illa at the same time, so thats more usefull than writting a few useless sentences to an empty screen, while I wait for a chance to rp, but I guess everyone has his/her own way to get into the mood of rp'ing, I just think that self reflection is better done withwritting a diary, after all you cna even post said diary on the forums to let people enjoy your work and maybe understand the way of their chars lives, sadly people always go and abuse such things.
But after all I would like a clear statement from the Gm's to this case, I have no problem rp'ing magic, if someone is around and if I happen to come across someone, while practicing this stupid skill, I will snap back into rp, but is there a need for writting..something that will just break the monotony of the auto emotions or is it just a recommended option?