RP - Titles

tiffy961

Hi there,

Just a quick question regarding rp.
How do you adress people in rp if they are strangers?
A woman probably ma'am.
A knight Sir/ Ser?
And how about a man in middle class?

Hope you can help me out here.

reagen_lionel

Pretty much that or how you would address anyone else in the street you dont know.

Also stranger, and friend works too. Really depends on your character's behavior and public demeanor.

Natjur

/hello (the hello emote works fine for me)

if they have randomly helped me then /thankyou
Or if they trained me or something else bad /threaten

If they are asking for gold then /playdead

tiffy961

I mean more like.. which title?
Like I would call someone Sir in rl if I don't know his name. But Sir is more for knights in TES, right?
So would "Mister" be okay?

reagen_lionel

Sir or Ser depends on how its used. Sir can be used in more like a greeting. Where Sir for a knight usually follows thier name at all times when thier name is mentioned like Mr. or Ms.

Its an act of formality when used as a greeting. Just like Lady or Madame.

And to my knowledge. Dark elves refer to people formally in the same way saying Sera.

Sir works for formal greetings because its generally polite and also formal to introduce yourself afterwards, in which you would then follow by pronouncing them by thier name or titles they have like magister or arch mage or lord, general, captain and the like.

Though one wouldnt expect to follow up with these methods unless your character is a noble knight or someone with a more high classed upbringing (or pretending to be )

Where more casual greetings and references is more laxed. In more casual references, Sir, madame or stranger would suffice. Anyway to reference anyone, cant really go wrong unless its rude (or you play a blunt worded character, or a nord)

Singular

Uhm...'ser' is from the novels and TV show 'The Game of Thrones.' Outside of those, it's meaningless.

'Sir' is a title denoting knighthood. You're welcome to use it role playing for men and 'Lady' for women.

Given that you're talking about role playing, I recommend adding flourish to your style - go with 'Most noble Sir, welcome!' and 'Fairest Lady, I bid thee welcome!' etc.

reagen_lionel

Singular wrote: »

Uhm...'ser' is from the novels and TV show 'The Game of Thrones.' Outside of those, it's meaningless.

'Sir' is a title denoting knighthood. You're welcome to use it role playing for men and 'Lady' for women.

Given that you're talking about role playing, I recommend adding flourish to your style - go with 'Most noble Sir, welcome!' and 'Fairest Lady, I bid thee welcome!' etc.

"Ser" has been used plenty of times outside of Game of Thrones in various fantasy settings, the first thing that comes to mine is Dragon's Dogma for me.

tiffy961

Dragon Age uses ser as well.
Anyways, thanks for all the answers!

reagen_lionel

No problem. Glad to help.

Turial

I feel bad for misreading your thread as "RP -titless" but here is something that might help.

http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info108-AutoEmote.html