I am a veteran D&D player. So i play as i do if i were playing D&D keeping my character in character as himself so to speak. and make decisions based on his way of life. I always tend to lean onto the true neutral side of things he is not good nor evil he does things to benefit himself and the innocent bystanders that are effected by both sides of "good & Evil" because all they want is power over everything. true freedom is the only way to live.

I do like to role play with talking and speech on occasion with on and off line story, story role playing is actually one of my favorites. on forums or games as such. i'm not good with voices so i like to type things out more then anything. role playing is important. especially in games like this.

jarnkoldur wrote: »

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?

Sad but true. RP was easier in the Ol'days when we were all on a specific server, encountered players easily, often and knew them by reputation.
I still adore RP but hate the clumsy interface used in most games. There was a time a player could use non-modal chat. Ahhh..those were the days.

DarcyMardin wrote: »

Interesting thread. I don’t RP at all in game. It might be because I am a professional novelist and I already spend too much time in my fictional characters’ heads. I play ESO to get away from all that

So why post in a ESO role-playing thread in regards to "How do YOU role play?" when you don't role-play on ESO?

One day, when I have the wealth of Bruce Wayne and can finance my own MMO, there will be a canon server that's only for roleplayers. Since I will have the wealth of Bruce Wayne, I'll be able to afford paying people to police it so that non-roleplayers aren't trolling on there--even making it a bannable offense, if necessary. The canon server is where all the official storylines will be played out, giving players a chance to interact and become a part of the game's living history. Forever. I would puppeteer main story npcs, give unique rewards. Give folks a real escapist world to inhabit.

That's the dream.

In one of the RP guilds I joined, we thieve and melee with a simplified D&D type dice roll system, treating a plot of game space as a game board. The fun comes from getting to know people and their characters.

In another guild the roleplay always leads to PVE fighting in a dungeon or attacking an overland boss. The details behind the encounter are temporarily changed to fit our story. We'll be RPing our way through a trial soon.

In every case we use text in chat for everything RP related and plan ahead for things in Discord.

We as in my guild and I when we do rp events and stories do our best to incorporate quests and stories already in game and us the environment the way it is in our stories. At times I will create real in game characters just so I can control them and add to the story. Like right now our guild is doing story "house divided" which I created Razem-Dar to give our members a contract to assist a high elf in Khenarthi Roost to investigate the why the Queens ships were being targeted, which led us to Mistral quest line but to add that we change story slightly that the Sea Elves are being back by the rebel elves who are out there to depose of the queen. I think that ZOS created such a rich environment and so many quests that it is a shame and loss to not use them in role playing.

We also conduct military campaigns in the game using the dungeons to signify objectives or events. example is our forces sailing on ship caught in a storm and we have to make land fall and so we role play out the dungeon where you are stuck on the island. Another example is if we send in people to spy on a city or take out a certain individual we incorporate the stealing and blade of woe functions. Or if we are sneaking in forces through the sewers you us the sewer dungeon to signify us traveling through the sewers. lol even when we make camp will have people go out and gather so much wood for building wall and for fire pits, as well as rock/metal for defenses, water for drinking, and even food for eating.

we even incorporate addon's to allow for dice rolling to signify loses in event and we even created magic looking cards on our website that people earn that they can use to influence dice rolls and stuff. I have to say for MMO's at least the ones I've played that currently ESO is one of the most rp friendly areas to role play with so much content in game and way the environment is so open. Our golden rule lol is that we never, ever, ever, never ever, ever do dice rolling and swinging at the air. Not to be disrespectful to other people/guilds that do it we all rp in our own way.