In WoW I used to be a pretty damn good lvl 60 dmg dealing fighter . Who also managed to RP pretty much all the time. When I do play WoW people regularly call me a power-leveller. I don't know if they overreact, but I did seem to level faster than almost everyone I knew in there. So that would show you can RP and be efficient . If you're going to be a good warrior IC, you'd better actually be a good warrior in game, eh? . We RPed, hunted mobs, and raided instances, and RPed . Some of those instances were pretty well-suited for some RP situations too.
I never went in for the endgame raid dungeons though, those really were a timesink that ate away RP.

It did kinda focus itself in the towns, but that's because the world is rather big, and towns, having stores, are simply your best bet for finding other RPers.
We regularly moved our business outside of the towns though, once we had some people together .
We had an all-elf guild, and met up in hard-to find (though often not all that hard to get to) and pretty spots in the woods. Or spots that looked like old temples. We'd have guild meetings with lots of secrecy, mystery, and ritual (though of course not too secret, because the most fun is if other can see you too, so the spots were hard to find, or in areas people don't usually frequent, but still so that people could stumble upon us. Spreading RP ).
Once we used that instance in the human lands, the one that has Van Cleef in it, for an RP story. We deftly ignored all the big floaty names on the NPCs. Someone had been kidnapped (there was this whole big story going on with a whole lot of people spanning several guilds participating and this was just a small part of it), and we went in to resque them. The one kidnapped was of course high level enough to be able to traverse that instance on her own, and get to the endboss, without dying, sitting in a corner there . I thought that was very interesting to do.

WoW isn't made for RP like Seed was or Adellion will be, but if you want it, you can always have RP. The backstory isn't actually bad for RP either, you can do a lot of interesting stuff with it, though admittedly a lot of people tended to do pretty boring stuff with it that they thought was really interesting, but which was really just what half the server was doing, and usually overly melodramatic too.
And of course you can RP without GM support, in WoW the GMs are only customer Service workers, so you'd be hard pressed to find any doing any kind of RP.

I took no screens. I usually don't, unless the sights are just very pretty. Basically I take screenshots like people buy postcards on holiday. Which is why my Seed screens were also a lot less extensive than a lot of people's.

Last edited by Norah (2007-04-03 11:17:34)