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FTGU: Character Story and Development

From The Ground Up: The Importance Of Character Story, What It Is, Why It Works, And How To Make One.

From The Ground Up (FTGU) is a series of posts based around character creation and roleplay, building from the ground up, obviously. In this post we’re going to talk about your characters story and their development and how to do that. But if you have missed any parts this far you can catch up with them here: 

From The Ground Up Index

You can also check out our Venerable Villians series starting Here.

 

Now, if you have read all those links then you likely have a fairly solid character in mind by this point. But as good as that character might be if they stay there and stay static there are swiftly going to be no fun for you to play or for anyone else to play with. So we need to make them non-static, we need to get them moving. We call this movement and progression character development. [Read more…]

Beyond Basics: Balancing IC and OOC

Balancing IC and OOC in MMORG: How to balance In-character interactions with Out-of-character effects in roleplay games online.

Balancing IC and OOC is a forever tricky topic In the battlefield of MMOs. It is difficult because there is not really a set right or wrong answer; there are things that are right and things that are wrong, and the truth of the matter lies in balancing the two. As always, this what most people struggle with. Here are some signs and symptoms and tricks and tips for weaving this particular minefield in-game.

Beyond Basics is a series of posts that delve into different aspects of roleplay beyond the basics of character creation within an MMO setting. For our purposes, this setting is World of Warcraft but it can be useful in others too. This series will look at things like plots, storylines, and conversations. As well as the world and community around you as a player in an MMO. Explaining how you can best make use of that; and how it might differ from roleplay on tabletop games for example. You can find the rest of the series here: Beyond Basics Series Index

 

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Beyond the Basics: Roleplaying Bar-Staff

Beyond the Basics: Roleplaying Bar-Staff. 8 tips and tricks to roleplaying bar staff in MMORPG's for maximum engagement and interaction. Roleplaying Bar-Staff is not easy. At least if it is done right it is not easy, and doing it right is not standing static behind the bar drilling up mundane emotes about fetching bottles when someone asks you for something. But it can be rewarding, for you the would be Bar-Staff ‘er as well as anyone that chances upon the bar. Finding roleplay can be hard and a lot of people struggle to get involved in roleplay and don’t have the confidence to walk up tp someone and start a scene. Having a tended bar bridges a lot of that space and makes it vastly more easily accessible for those people to find roleplay as they can wander into the bar, order a drink, listen a minute or two to the ongoing conversations and chip i. Before you know it they are involved and making friends and it’s the more simple and natural thing in the world. And you YOU my brave hero it helps you make those connections as well and get involved. Don’t believe me? Read on.

 

Beyond Basics is a series of posts that delve into different aspects of roleplay beyond the basics of character creation within an MMO setting. For our purposes, this setting is World of Warcraft but it can be useful in others too. This series will look at things like plots, storylines, and conversations. As well as the world and community around you as a player in an MMO. Explaining how you can best make use of that; and how it might differ from roleplay on tabletop games for example. You can find the rest of the series here: Beyond Basics Series Index

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Venerable Villains: The Basics of Bad Guys

Venerable Villains. Role-playing a villain character in MMORPG and role-play games. Venerable Villains is a series of posts that delve into different aspects of playing a bad guy in roleplay. Villains and bad guys come in a vast range of shapes and formats, but they are rather rare, and to find them done well is even rarer still. They are also essential to any good story-line or plot for breeding conflicts and tensions. We are going to talk about all kinds of villains and how to make them work. If you want to catch up with any of the other sections of this series you can find the index here: Venerable Villains Index Page.

Within World of Wacraft, you can happily and easily content yourself with Blizzard’s pre-made Bad Guys in the form of the Legion, the Scourge, the various cults, and so on. But some folk look for and desire something on a more close and personal basis. Something that can develop and grow, change and adapt to suit their story and within their time frame. This leaves a desire and/or a need for player character (PC) villains; for that personalised and touch and the ability to adapt with a story-line.

As such occasionally people will create a character to stand in as a bad guy for various plots and stories for themselves, their friends or their guilds. And some people will just be drawn by the idea of playing a bad guy even if they don’t have a pre-set need and slot for the character. We are going to talk about all kinds of bad guys here so buckle up and stay tuned.

 

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FTGU: Character Class

FTGU: The relevence of character class in roleplay on MMORPG's

From The Ground Up (FTGU) is a series of posts based around character creation and roleplay, building from the ground up, obviously. In this post we’re going to talk about your characters story and their development and how to do that. But if you have missed any parts this far you can catch up with them here: 

From The Ground Up Index

 

If you’ve been keeping up with the From The Ground Up series then you may have an idea in mind for your character concept, you may even have a decently fleshed out character at hand, perhaps you have rolled up an avatar perhaps you haven’t yet, but in this installment I’m going to briefly touch the surface of how avatar ‘class’ can reflect into your role-play. If you haven’t caught the previous installments you can catch up below:

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