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From The Ground Up: Orc Naming Guide

From The Ground Up is a series set to helping you build your roleplay characters from the ground up! Today we're looking at Orc Naming guides and tips!

If you are new to this series here’s the deal; ‘From The Ground Up’ is a series of blog posts aimed at helping you create a roleplay character from the ground up. Says it on the tin, right? These guides are mostly geared towards creating characters for roleplay within the World of Warcraft, but the basic principles could likely be used for character creation for a variety of different games both online and on table-top, perhaps even for fiction writing. You can find the index for this series here for easy navigation of the other parts. From The Ground Up: Series Index

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Beyond Basics: Writing in Roleplay Tips and Tricks

Writing is vitally important when it comes to roleplay online, so here is why and some tips and tricks to help you get the best from your writing in roleplay.

Writing is a vital and important part of roleplay in the virtual and online capacity. But that is not to say that you need to be a good writer to roleplay online, at all. You don’t. But it definitely helps to know a few tips and tricks to improve your prose. It should also be noted that the best way to improve your writing is practice. And that even the best writer might not be the best roleplayer, as many other skills feed into being a good roleplayer as well. Today though we’re going to look at writing skills. 

 

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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From The Ground Up: Characters Possessions

A characters possessions can say a lot about them. It's important for any roleplayer to have an understanding of their characters possessions. Today we are going to talk about characters possessions, this means the items that your character owns. A characters possessions can say a lot about them as people and can tell you a lot about their lives. So we’re going to explore why it is important and working it out today. If you want to catch up with any of the other posts in the From The Ground Up series on character creation you can find the index page Here.

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From The Ground Up: Character Personality

From The Ground Up: Character Personality can affect a lot of things in roleplay scenarios, so it is important to know who your character is and why.

Today we are going to look into character personality but if you are new to this series here’s the deal. From The Ground Up is a series of blog posts aimed at helping you create a roleplay character from the ground up. These guides are mostly geared towards creating characters for roleplay within the World of Warcraft, but the basic principals could likely be used for character creation for a variety of different games both online and on table-top, perhaps even for fiction writing. You can find the index for this series here for easy navigation of the other parts. FTGU Series Index

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Exploring World of Warcraft: Feralas

 Exploring the World of Warcraft: Feralas. Where is it? What's the story behind it? What is it like and where within it is useful for roleplay? Feralas like many other zones is often overlooked. I often find that those of us who have been playing this game for so many years now are almost blind to the content and the world around us. So by means of re-familiarizing roleplayers with the world around them, we bring you this series of posts. We will also include a bit of lore and atmosphere with each location, along with images and any other little bits of information we can find for you. You can find the rest of the posts in this series here: Exploring the World of Warcraft Series Index.

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