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Is it just me or does anyone else get bad experiances with RP'ing guilds?
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starkerealm✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Rohamad_Ali wrote: »I just don't like when RP turns into talking all night and never going on adventures . I can RolePlay a person afraid of going outside in real life . I don't need that in here .
Yeah, I remember an RP group in another game that did that.0 -
anitajoneb17_ESO✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Jemcrystal wrote: »Then I get questioned like I was going thru security at a freakn airport. Then she doesn't like my answers so she says, "You can look at our site: blablabla."
Do you know how long it takes and how much work is involved in building up a website (I don't mean the technical frame, I mean the content), defining a guild's goal and identity, putting it into words ? Are you too lazy or undefined to actually express what you want, check what the guild wants, and see if it fits ?
There are many "open bar" guilds out there, where the rules and identity are nothing more than "everyone is welcome, we cater to everyone, newbies, hardcore, pvp, pve, rp, all that's required is mutual respect and readiness to help each other". Chances are, these guilds will have a bunch of people who are so different from each other that they can barely find any content to play together with. They usually die or split up within a few weeks or months for lack of common values and interests. Good guilds with a strong identity, on the other hand, may have less members at any given time, but those members will truly enjoy playing with each other and sharing a common vision of the game. As a result, they build strong social relationships, last over time and survive "dry" periods of time such as summer months easily.
Finding a guild that's good for you takes time several tries, perseverance, and a fair share of effort and communication, too. As an alternative, you can join any "open bar" guild with little rules and weak identity, but chances are, you'll be just wasting time (yours and theirs) and become frustrated and salty.
Edited by anitajoneb17_ESO on December 21, 2016 7:48AM3 -
Glurin✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Personally, I tend to avoid RPers in general. I think it's because I keep stumbling upon the really bad, sappy love story RPers.
"Oh my love."
"Yes, my love?"
"I love you my love."
"I know, my love."
"That night together was wonderful my love."
"It was wonderful for me too my love."
"But the king needs me and I must leave you now my love."
"But what of your ingrown toenail my love?"
"Do not worry my love. I shall endure, even though the healer said he might have to amputate my left leg my love."
"But the toenail is on your right foot my love."
"Yes, but my left foot is having sympathy pains my love."
"Oh, my love, I love you so much my love! Be sure to come back to me alive my love!"
(No, I'm really not exaggerating as much as you might think.)Edited by Glurin on December 21, 2016 7:52AM"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster...when you gaze long into the abyss the abyss also gazes into you..."20 -
Knootewoot✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭I always join "open bar" guilds and never register on websites. These guild are mostly more relaxed and I am very content in these guilds. No obligations, just fun.
Maybe I am just lucky :-)
Edited by Knootewoot on December 21, 2016 7:52AM٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶
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starkerealm✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Personally, I tend to avoid RPers in general. I think it's because I keep stumbling upon the really bad, sappy love story RPers.
"Oh my love."
"Yes, my love?"
"I love you my love."
"I know, my love."
"That night together was wonderful my love."
"It was wonderful for me too my love."
"But the king needs me and I must leave you now my love."
"But what of your ingrown toenail my love?"
"Do not worry my love. I shall endure, even though the healer said he might have to amputate my left leg my love."
"But the toenail is on your right foot my love."
"Yes, but my left foot is having sympathy pains my love."
"Oh, my love, I love you so much my love! Be sure to come back to me alive my love!"
(No, I'm really not exaggerating as much as you might think.)
No, I know. I accidentally walked in on ERPers a few years ago while farming motifs. The moment has stuck with me. I'm told with sufficient therapy I may some day learn to stop projectile vomiting when encountering romance RPers.6 -
Enslaved✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭Jemcrystal wrote: »I keep trying to join up with these Role Playing guilds and it's like a practice in utter constipation! Your guilds are to small. Everyone is afraid to talk.
Today I see someone yelling in zone for peeps to join a Dunmer only rpg and I am like yeah that will be some fun! Then I get questioned like I was going thru security at a freakn airport. Then she doesn't like my answers so she says, "You can look at our site: blablabla." Hay, lady, I just quit my 5th guild in the hopes that you would take me in. You didn't say anything about RP'ing rules when you asked in chat if anyone wanted to join a Dunmer Morrowind guild. I swear to god I have had it with you role players. You are rule obsessed control freaks and you are rude to people new to rp'ing. Straight up.
As much as I agree with you, I also see the point of that guild. Its their guild, their rules. Game has so many immersion breaking concepts already, I see why ppl who love rp want their guilds to be immersive to how they rp. And tbh, chat is not a place to write down every single detail, advertises are never like that. You should see my guild leaders, they don't even let you join if all your chars are not in EP.0 -
SantieClaws✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭This one she has never sought to join such a guild.
Why would this one want to pretend to be the elf yes when already existing in the moon blessed state of perfection that is khajiit?
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ObsidianMichi✭✭✭starkerealm wrote: »Rohamad_Ali wrote: »I just don't like when RP turns into talking all night and never going on adventures . I can RolePlay a person afraid of going outside in real life . I don't need that in here .
Yeah, I remember an RP group in another game that did that.
Mine liked to hang out in hot tubs all night and chat about their lesbian love lives. To their credit, the guild leader was trying to come to terms with her sexuality. The other group I was in spent most of their time in the bar talking about the adventures they had out in the world that were not together. They did go on a few jaunts, but not many. The rest of the time it was spent in the bar getting drunk, high, and socializing.
Most MMO RP groups are boring.2 -
Wifeaggro13✭✭✭✭✭
✭Jemcrystal wrote: »I keep trying to join up with these Role Playing guilds and it's like a practice in utter constipation! Your guilds are to small. Everyone is afraid to talk.
Today I see someone yelling in zone for peeps to join a Dunmer only rpg and I am like yeah that will be some fun! Then I get questioned like I was going thru security at a freakn airport. Then she doesn't like my answers so she says, "You can look at our site: blablabla." Hay, lady, I just quit my 5th guild in the hopes that you would take me in. You didn't say anything about RP'ing rules when you asked in chat if anyone wanted to join a Dunmer Morrowind guild. I swear to god I have had it with you role players. You are rule obsessed control freaks and you are rude to people new to rp'ing. Straight up.
It's only gonna end up some fat balding 52 year old trying to ERP you lol1 -
Sogreth✭✭✭I did some RPing on WoW a few years back, and yeah, some of the guilds on there were insane! Luckily I got into a really nice one, but we interacted a lot with other guilds, and some of them were just awful. So much drama.0 -
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✭✭✭I've never Rp'd before, but i've thought about creating a RP guild
The story would be something like:
I am Queen Emily and anyone who joins my guild would submit to me. They will obey every command I issue, they will honor and respect each other, and they will fight for glory and blood. Anyone who disobeyed the queen would be punished.
During battle, Queen Emily never fights, she just heals. Her army would protect her as she leads them to victory. Through time she would seek out the strongest fighter to be the King.
If you want a friend, get a dog.
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Lysette✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Rohamad_Ali wrote: »I just don't like when RP turns into talking all night and never going on adventures . I can RolePlay a person afraid of going outside in real life . I don't need that in here .
Very valid point - people have a different view on roleplay and there is the problem. Some think, it would be kind of a shakespearean stage play, where speech is the most important - I don't like this kind of RP, because people who are into that are far too much likely to oppose their idea of rp onto you - you become an actor in their stage play basically or at least that is their idea of role playing - but that is actually acting, not role playing.
So IMO it is important to make sure, that one has a very similar opinion about what roleplay is like to enjoy it with a group. As for the rules, if those are too restrictive, it is not role play anymore, it becomes acting, because there is not much creativity left. And like always, stay far away from people, who are overly pedantic - this will ruin your fun.Edited by Lysette on December 21, 2016 2:49PM3 -
Lysette✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭SantieClaws wrote: »This one she has never sought to join such a guild.
Why would this one want to pretend to be the elf yes when already existing in the moon blessed state of perfection that is khajiit?
Yours with paws
Santie Claws
Hahahaha, you are awesome as always
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Jazbay_Grape✭✭✭✭Rohamad_Ali wrote: »I just don't like when RP turns into talking all night and never going on adventures . I can RolePlay a person afraid of going outside in real life . I don't need that in here .
Very valid point - people have a different view on roleplay and there is the problem. Some think, it would be kind of a shakespearean stage play, where speech is the most important - I don't like this kind of RP, because people who are into that are far too much likely to oppose their idea of rp onto you - you become an actor in their stage play basically or at least that is their idea of role playing - but that is actually acting, not role playing.
So IMO it is important to make sure, that one has a very similar opinion about what roleplay is like to enjoy it with a group. As for the rules, if those are too restrictive, it is not role play anymore, it becomes acting, because there is not much creativity left. And like always, stay far away from people, who are overly pendantic - this will ruin your fun.
Am I the only one who had to Google "pendantic"?2 -
purple-magicb16_ESO✭✭✭✭✭newtinmpls wrote: »I am a fairly laid-back RPer and have been known (when playing my "always proper" Hisa Ni Caemarie) to chastise people for being naked in public.
I mean really ... being a member of the House of Dibella there IS a time and a place for these things. Along with various appropriate scented oils and candles...
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There is no naked in this game. ZoS could do it without revealing anything too riské by using a blur patch instead of just black underwear.It would add an element of realism to the game.I don't comment here often but when I do, I get [snip]0 -
Khaos_Bane✭✭✭✭✭
✭RP guilds sound horrible to me. Sounds like drama, which I play the game to escape. But whatever people enjoy is great for them.2 -
Lysette✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Jazbay_Grape wrote: »Rohamad_Ali wrote: »I just don't like when RP turns into talking all night and never going on adventures . I can RolePlay a person afraid of going outside in real life . I don't need that in here .
Very valid point - people have a different view on roleplay and there is the problem. Some think, it would be kind of a shakespearean stage play, where speech is the most important - I don't like this kind of RP, because people who are into that are far too much likely to oppose their idea of rp onto you - you become an actor in their stage play basically or at least that is their idea of role playing - but that is actually acting, not role playing.
So IMO it is important to make sure, that one has a very similar opinion about what roleplay is like to enjoy it with a group. As for the rules, if those are too restrictive, it is not role play anymore, it becomes acting, because there is not much creativity left. And like always, stay far away from people, who are overly pendantic - this will ruin your fun.
Am I the only one who had to Google "pendantic"?
I mistyped and corrected it - sorry.0 -
Lysette✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭purple-magicb16_ESO wrote: »newtinmpls wrote: »I am a fairly laid-back RPer and have been known (when playing my "always proper" Hisa Ni Caemarie) to chastise people for being naked in public.
I mean really ... being a member of the House of Dibella there IS a time and a place for these things. Along with various appropriate scented oils and candles...
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There is no naked in this game. ZoS could do it without revealing anything too riské by using a blur patch instead of just black underwear.It would add an element of realism to the game.
Realism?- if you see a blur in real life there, you should see a doctor - I would suggest a psychiatrist.8 -
Majic✭✭✭✭✭Drama in a role-playing guild?
Didn't see that coming!
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Vrienda✭✭✭✭✭
✭Well it could be worse. Back in WoW one guild required female members to engage in erotic roleplay with their leader in order to join.Desperate for Roleplaying servers to bring open world non-organised RP to Elder Scrolls Online. Please ZOS.3 -
Prof_Bawbag✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Jazbay_Grape wrote: »Rohamad_Ali wrote: »I just don't like when RP turns into talking all night and never going on adventures . I can RolePlay a person afraid of going outside in real life . I don't need that in here .
Very valid point - people have a different view on roleplay and there is the problem. Some think, it would be kind of a shakespearean stage play, where speech is the most important - I don't like this kind of RP, because people who are into that are far too much likely to oppose their idea of rp onto you - you become an actor in their stage play basically or at least that is their idea of role playing - but that is actually acting, not role playing.
So IMO it is important to make sure, that one has a very similar opinion about what roleplay is like to enjoy it with a group. As for the rules, if those are too restrictive, it is not role play anymore, it becomes acting, because there is not much creativity left. And like always, stay far away from people, who are overly pendantic - this will ruin your fun.
Am I the only one who had to Google "pendantic"?
Probably not. Because I'd like to think the vast majority of people knew the exact word the person was meaning to type. I mean, I'd see the point if he had typed something like "ffjbgncjasdhnsdfjv" or something along those lines, but if you genuinely couldn't figure it out because of a single misplaced letter, then ... erm ... eh, I dunno what to say.1 -
Jazbay_Grape✭✭✭✭Rohamad_Ali wrote: »I just don't like when RP turns into talking all night and never going on adventures . I can RolePlay a person afraid of going outside in real life . I don't need that in here .
Very valid point - people have a different view on roleplay and there is the problem. Some think, it would be kind of a shakespearean stage play, where speech is the most important - I don't like this kind of RP, because people who are into that are far too much likely to oppose their idea of rp onto you - you become an actor in their stage play basically or at least that is their idea of role playing - but that is actually acting, not role playing.
So IMO it is important to make sure, that one has a very similar opinion about what roleplay is like to enjoy it with a group. As for the rules, if those are too restrictive, it is not role play anymore, it becomes acting, because there is not much creativity left. And like always, stay far away from people, who are overly pendantic - this will ruin your fun.
Am I the only one who had to Google "pendantic"?Jazbay_Grape wrote: »Rohamad_Ali wrote: »I just don't like when RP turns into talking all night and never going on adventures . I can RolePlay a person afraid of going outside in real life . I don't need that in here .
Very valid point - people have a different view on roleplay and there is the problem. Some think, it would be kind of a shakespearean stage play, where speech is the most important - I don't like this kind of RP, because people who are into that are far too much likely to oppose their idea of rp onto you - you become an actor in their stage play basically or at least that is their idea of role playing - but that is actually acting, not role playing.
So IMO it is important to make sure, that one has a very similar opinion about what roleplay is like to enjoy it with a group. As for the rules, if those are too restrictive, it is not role play anymore, it becomes acting, because there is not much creativity left. And like always, stay far away from people, who are overly pendantic - this will ruin your fun.
Am I the only one who had to Google "pendantic"?
I mistyped and corrected it - sorry.
It's cool, I just thought it was a new word.0 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Elijah_Crow wrote: »If you join a guild without an interview process, then you know what you are getting. A guild who will take anyone including trouble makers, drama queens, and the offensive.
I suspect that the interview process is designed to weed out those types. You know, the type who jump guilds every couple weeks, drama queens who run to the forums to complain to everyone when they don't get accepted....
It's perfectly fine for guild leadership to decide you aren't a good fit for their guild and you are probably better off for it, as are they.
This is true.0 -
Father_X_Zombie✭✭✭✭I had a group of Imperial role players from my faction messaging me while I was emperor about being happy "an Imperial is sitting on the ruby throne" and they would defend my emp to the death
I've changed to Breton since then turns out they make better mag sorcs
Edited by Father_X_Zombie on December 21, 2016 4:16PMGT: AK x Zombie
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Sogreth✭✭✭SantieClaws wrote: »This one she has never sought to join such a guild.
Why would this one want to pretend to be the elf yes when already existing in the moon blessed state of perfection that is khajiit?
Yours with paws
Santie Claws
Hahahaha, you are awesome as always
You mean as trolly as always.1 -
VinyParsley2016✭✭✭✭vamp_emily wrote: »I've never Rp'd before, but i've thought about creating a RP guild
The story would be something like:
I am Queen Emily and anyone who joins my guild would submit to me. They will obey every command I issue, they will honor and respect each other, and they will fight for glory and blood. Anyone who disobeyed the queen would be punished.
During battle, Queen Emily never fights, she just heals. Her army would protect her as she leads them to victory. Through time she would seek out the strongest fighter to be the King.
Holy shot! I have joined a guild just exactly the same as you described, when I was V16. The guild master was a girl, hopefully not you. Once I have time, I will share the story with you guys. So funny, so shxtty, so creepy! 0
