It’s Wednesday again and… oh, you know the introduction sentence by now, so I’ll skip it halfway. Today, I want to address a problem that affects me much more this time and call on you to be a little active.
I am hereby addressing all roleplayers and those who might at least want to take a small look into the world of emotes and character stories. Everyone else is welcome (read: must) to continue reading and may happily join one of the two mentioned groups afterwards.
The friends list after 7 years: “What? Who are you?”
A situation that probably happens hundreds of thousands of times every day. You are running around with your character in the worlds of a game you haven’t touched for a while, and then the strange message appears in the chat: “[Serathion] is now online.”
And then the brain starts to rattle. Who the Nether was Serathion? Was he called that back then? Did I have anything to do with him?
A further click on the name reveals the associated guild “Sin Tor”. Even there, my mind seems to scream from distant memories: You know him! You somehow know him! – Sure, he’s on my friends list after all.
So I was facing two options, either I remove the good man (calling “men” for blood elves might be a bit presumptuous) from my list or I engage in the embarrassing conversation where I confess to having no idea who he actually is. Luckily, I made the right choice, otherwise I would have to come up with something again today.
Unknown yet always close…
After some conversations with the previously so “ominous unknown”, we found out that we had crossed paths as roleplayers in a whole bunch of MMORPGs.
We frequented the same cantinas in SWTOR, participated together in some RP events in WildStar, and in TERA our Castanics shared time at the beach… well, that’s not so important, you know what I’m getting at!
There is only a relatively manageable number of online roleplayers in the German-speaking area, and they are spreading across more and more games that have come into the market over the years. This makes coordination among each other more challenging, for some games it’s just not enough to gather enough people to create truly exciting, varied RP. And if you ultimately meet the same people in every new game anyway, why should you have to rediscover each other every time? And this is where a good acquaintance comes into play…
A small but ambitious project
To provide roleplayers (and all those who want to become one) with a cross-game forum and to maintain friendships among players across games, “Rabe” has created the following forum: www.rp-foren.de
I take the liberty to blatantly promote this, as this is something I care about – bringing together the German roleplaying community. Even if the forum is still empty at the moment, please sign up if interested, introduce yourselves and your ideas, or simply ask for mentors if you’re still uncertain. And above all: If you know roleplayers, please tell them about it!
I notice that this time I was way too friendly and complained way too little – let’s see what the coming week with its Evolve beta test has to offer… until Wednesday and dare to take the plunge! We do not bite. Only in RP.
In case you have never dealt with roleplaying or have only seen it as part of the written designation “MMORPG”, I would like to recommend some of our older posts to you. First, we offer you a good overview, what roleplaying actually is and empower you to create your first, RP-compatible character. If you are not asleep by then, feel free to take a closer look at our behavior tips for RP so that your first gaming evening does not end in a major disaster. To round out the overall package, we finally point you to the dangers and temptations that every player can encounter when engaging in lively conversations or bloody battles with other characters. Take a look, it might be worth it!
