You have a point about anti-RP stuff in the game. It
is a different environment altogether from what we
consider traditional RP environment. That said, I
find that my characters develop a personality of their
own after a time. Terrok, my druid is kind of dour
and a bit of a hardass. As an officer in the guild,
he enforces some of the rules others fear to mention.
He is not well liked.
My shaman, Fenryr always "throws a small sack of bones
on the ground and studies them carefully" when asked
for a SOW. The spirits may require a gift for his
magic to work -- it might be a bone chip, it might be
a bottle of kalish and it might be free...but the
price is the price and the spirits can't be denied;-)
Tyunes on the other hand is just a happy guy. He
sings to passers by and usually has something good to
say.
All my characters have a thing about beggars. I think
begging takes away from the game. Terrok and Fenryr
never give anything away, Tyunes likes to surprise
young bards with hand-me-down items. Ask and you
won't get. Offer to buy or just be polite and Tyunes
will normally help out.
--- Elijah Meeker <
emeeker@...> wrote:
> I have pondered what I see as an anti-RP pressure in
> EQ a lot. I think it is
> because the game itself requires so much logistics
> discussion. Logistics can
> be diffcult enough when you are exchanging raw data
> much less gussying it
> up, and so people tend to be dirrect, which tends
> to sound pretty OOC.
> Guildsay also breaks the RP framework, because there
> is no premise at all of
> sharing a physical (okay virtual Phisical) location.
> How do you RP for more
> than a short span when one person is in the Field of
> bone as an Iksar and
> another in LGuk as a High Elf? Then add that the
> High Elf wants the Iksar
> player to quit playing a secondary and come help...
> Not that it isn't
> possible to counter the effect, just that it is hard
> work.
>
>
> Tszaaz
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