dwemer_paleologist wrote: »

i am allways roleplaying when i play morrowind and eso.
all i do is simple, just 1 thing.

"i pretend that i am really my character, and that the world i see ingame is the real thing, and i react as if it was really happening."

I don't know if you were being funny or not, but I never act as if I am my character. My charactersssS are all different, so they must react how they must react. My personal emotions to a scenario have no bearings on it. In hardcore rp people that pretend they are their character seem to struggle more with outcomes. I have seen players get out of control over what is going on with their characters, or even take out emotions on alts. I never see it as really happening, I see it is as a story being developed. I do like to write, so that may be why I view it as such. With that said, I think we all bleed over into our characters at times.

Now to answer the OP: I just play my characters and react like they would, even in Cyrodiil, without making a big show of it. I dont find any RP with others here, so it is basically solo acts. I still keep them to their character though. Krist is honorable and lawful. Luke is neutral. Hughe is devious and chaotic. Even so, all are complex characters. Hughe can be very loyal. Luke cares for people, just isn't big on laws. Krist can get angry, and being a Nord, become very dangerous. He is also a werewolf that has killed. I get into who I am playing, and handle the situations as they would.

I am Khajiit .

Thank you for the reply guys. How do you justify a thief character doing all sorts of quests? He isn't technically evil yet (joining thieves guild when I level my legerdemain skill more). But plan on slowly turning evil when I contract vampirism and join the dark brotherhood. He doesn't kill yet but will for sure. This is my bosmer alt. I have a main dragonknight orc who doesn't role play, just does whatever but doesn't kill either (I disabled hitting friendly npcs). Wanting to get into role play though.

Are you part of an rp guild sir? I appreciate the feedback. Thank you if you are and have an opening for a new Rper and friend let me know @Rev Rielle

I don't get it, why was I tagged?

As part of RP, do you all just follow the game plotlines, or create your own? I can imagine that much would be possible in a group; but playing alone, there's not much to roleplay beyond just defining your characters and being them.

Is there a guild or guilds devoted to this stuff? How do you find them? (I've been playing alone for more than a year and don't know the first thing about guilds)...

@pjwb16_ESO whilst I generally find the RP jokes funny don't ruin actually interesting and real RP threads with the farming stuff.

Indigochild3rdi wrote: »

Are you part of an rp guild sir <ma'am>? I appreciate the feedback. Thank you if you are and have an opening for a new Rper and friend let me know @Rev Rielle

You're welcome. And we will. Goodluck, I hope you find what you're looking for (if indeed your are looking for something).
I'm not sure how TESO-RP is doing these days, but it might be worth a look if that's your style.

Indigochild3rdi wrote: »

Thank you for the reply guys. How do you justify a thief character doing all sorts of quests? He isn't technically evil yet (joining thieves guild when I level my legerdemain skill more). But plan on slowly turning evil when I contract vampirism and join the dark brotherhood. He doesn't kill yet but will for sure. This is my bosmer alt. I have a main dragonknight orc who doesn't role play, just does whatever but doesn't kill either (I disabled hitting friendly npcs). Wanting to get into role play though.

The big thing to remember with an evil character is that "evil" isn't actually a personality trait in itself. It's a descriptor other people use to describe your character's actions or personality traits... but "evil," by itself, isn't a personality or motivation.

In short, your evil character may not think he's evil.

I have three of these types of characters: my assassin who isn't evil, just ruthless and with a tendency to value her personal goals over those of others; my thief who isn't evil, just careless of other people's personal property, because stealing is "fun"; and my witch who isn't evil, but rather is a longtime (read: undead) servant of Mephala and thus has little care for the plights of mortals, since they'll all just eventually die anyway. All of these characters have their own goals... whether it's to get their soul back (the assassin), to sabotage a rival Prince's plot (the witch), or just to engage in some fun but challenging sneakery (the thief).

So figure out what the character's motivations are (and "because they're evil" doesn't count ). What does this character want to achieve in life, and how does that lead them down the darker paths? It can be something as simple as a sense of belonging leading them to the Dark Brotherhood, or something as blatant as enjoying the power that comes with being a vampire and searching for more ways to become powerful. But whatever drives them should be tangible and logically follow from their backstory and personality. That's how you get a holistic RP character: when their backstory, personality, and motivations all work in tandem to drive how you play them.

Easier said than done, I know. But it's something to think about, and it's something that can develop and change as you play. And once you know what drives your character at any given moment, you can usually find angles and justifications for doing a lot of the quests. My assassin used to do quests because it was on the path to getting her soul back from Molag Bal, and now she's found that ingratiating herself with the local powers allows her access to otherwise inaccessible locations for her assassination contracts, so does quests to build up her reputation in an area for better access. My witch does quests because she's been told to act as the proverbial wrench in the works, righting the chaos that Molag Bal is depending on for the Planemeld to succeed. My thief does city and faction quests to make her thieving environments easier, and then tends to skip wilderness quests altogether, since those don't benefit her.

So for you, what I'd do is figure out why your guy is a thief. Is it purely for profit? Some Robin Hood-esque sense of societal duty? Because it's fun? Because it's what he grew up doing and so it was the only marketable skill he has? Use his motivation (and backstory and personality) to look at what could lead him down darker roads. Does he care about other people at all? If so, where does he draw the line between their needs and his own wants, and if not, how far is he willing to go to get what he wants?

Once you know what motivates your character, justifying quests is no longer much of a problem, because you'll know what they would do in any given situation and why.

Good luck, and have fun!

Ooo! I like the idea of vampirism corrupting him that way.

All my characters have their own personalities, decisions and stories behind who they are.
An example of this, would be my main character I play.

Cindafall was once a remarkable women in DC. She didn't go to war, but she helped so many people throughout the regions, she became a well-known hero and adventurer. She however kept a secret. When she was adventuring, just finishing up her jobs she had, she came across a monster. A vampire. He turned her, and she then became very corrupt and started to kill innocents. (Mixing in with the time I got the Dark brotherhood dlc).

She's now cured (remarkable isn't it?) and is finally returning to her "original" self. Though, no matter what, she will never forget the evil deeds she carried out and the people she hurt along the way.

What I wrote here is a very short extract from my thought process when I was playing her through this time. Everything she does when I "play" as her, I record in my head and make the "story" up afterwards by putting the pieces together. It's a different way to RP sure, but it's incredibly fun! I do this with all my characters, they all live in the same universe, and interact with each other.

Apparently, a common theme within this thread is that most individuals prefer role-playing alone. I thought the purpose of role-playing (in regards to MMORPGs) was to be a part of a collective narrative as opposed to pursuing one's own head canon?

I'd rather play the game than stand around juggling text messages with other people, so my RPing consists of interpreting my gameplay (mostly questing) through the lens of my main character's thoughts and feelings and writing headcanon "mindjournal" entries as I go along. The narrative progression has been remarkably solid considering that I'm literally just experiencing her journey in whatever order I happen to do the quests in (although I have done some reordering of zones compared to when I actually played through them, which I can cuz it's my headcanon). It's nice as the omniscient author to take some time to craft these written entries after the fact, and sometimes I end up combining or making reference to experiences that relate to a certain theme rather than just making it a "Dear Diary, today I..." kind of thing. And I can pace myself in posting the entries in my thread so that I don't feel like I have to panic about running out of things to write about (which hasn't been a problem so far).

I'm not sure how many people actually read these things, aside from a few comments early on, but even if I'm the only one who cares I still have fun with it and I find that it adds a lot to my gaming experience.

I tend to first research the lore of my character's race, but that's about it. For the most part, I do my own thing - I pledge no loyalties to anyone and run my Order independently. After all, the deserts of Tamriel are unregulated - who's going to stop us, anyway? :-p