Richard Garriot has created for us a very special and unique place with its own history, lore and rules but not even with 9 games plus spin-offs can tell us everything there is to know about the world of New Britannia or its history. There’s a lot we don’t know but we should not be afraid to explore the possibilities that gaps in lore represent.
With that in mind, any story we want to tell should remain true to what we know about the world we’re in. Continue reading
Written by Keira and edited for use on SOTARP.org
The are many things in a game that will help you determine things about your character. Abilities, skill, statistics and game lore will all have an impact on your character and how he/she/it may interrupt or react to things that happen in-game. You will need to keep in mind how your character acts, speaks, thinks and how they express their personality, quirks, strengths and weaknesses. Being consistent with your character in important so others will be able to playfully react to your character. If you wrote your character to be cool and aloof, then you wouldn’t want them being buddy-buddy with a complete stranger. You would need to find some other way, an IC way, for your character to get to know that other person.
Written by Keira and edited for use on SOTARP.org
Role Play (aka. rp; roleplay)
Taking on a part, much like you would in a play but inside a chat-room or chat system in a video game. You don’t have a script of lines to memorize nor a director telling you where to stand and what to do. In essence, you’ve stepped into another person’s shoes and you’re pretending to be that person/being/creature/whatever.
The blog “From Horror to Daily Life: Creative Writer and Academic” had an interesting article last year on Role Playing that I just stumbled upon. We will soon be some publishing some of our own articles on this subject, but I felt this article had a lot of insight and suggestions that were worthy to share as well. It focuses mostly on chat or forum based RP yet these principles still resonate across other mediums as well.
A Roleplayer’s Guide to Roleplaying, or “What I learnt from being countless other people.”
by Fireangel
Where do you get your roleplay fix? I personally have a long history of role play, and I have actual withdrawals. If you are a real role player, this makes sense to you. If you are not, I may be speaking a foreign language to you. I cannot really role play without other ‘actors’. Many like me are asking: where do you find roleplay online?
by 3devious
A passionate community of gamers often loses sight of what happens behind the scenes during tumultuous times. The result of the most recent decision by Portalarium as posted by Seon caused many backers to get into heated discussions on the Shroud of the Avatar forums.
