Oh boy. I joined a guild on one of my alt realms in WOW Classic. Next thing you know, I’ve added two more characters on the realm, all five are in the guild, and I’m TRYING not to add three more character. ^_^;;
I did spend some time on my primary realm on my highest level character. I now have a level 60 shadow priest. Something like 13 days, 9 hours, played. (I spend a lot of time not directly leveling, and it shows.) Next level push, I think, is my hunter at 37 who has a bunch of mail gear waiting in the bank taking up space.
Many years ago I had rolled an alt on another RP realm, and right off the bat was RPing with someone in the starting area. My character was female, theirs was male, but it was just friendly chatter until we left Northshire and started on the road to Goldshire. They suggested a picnic off the road, and then went WAY over the line TOU violation in their RP. I was so shocked, I closed WOW with Alt+F4, and deleted her without even logging back in. I wish I’d had the presence of mind to at least pay attention to their character name and report, but that was very early in my WOW career.
I play on Ravenholdt/Twisting Nether on Retail. But I think in all the years I have been there, I have only seen one or two instances of people actually RPing.
Usually the RP pickup has been good for me, but on the WOW Classic realms I find it more in the events. I went to one on my rogue that was being held at the inn in Stranglethorn Vale. Was kind of neat because I was just finishing the Horde class chain for poisons, which involves Zanzil’s Mixture, so heading to STV to follow up on where it came from made for a natural conversation starter. (I’d not realized before that the connection.)
On this gal and my other Sentinels characters I did channel RP more, where we were out in the world doing our own thing, but used a channel to pretend we were in a tavern interacting, sometimes in another setting. There were also numerous guilds with RP stories, some who ran taverns or more public events. Even more fun, we had quite an active forum and our own website for RP fiction. Sadly, Blizzard updating forums several times killed that, as did a lot of us moving on at various points. (I maintained the fiction site and the wiki site for a couple years before I quit early MoP and no one else took over, sadly.)
I much prefer playing on RP servers - for the most part, everyone seems much friendlier. Mind you, I’ve never really done any RP - I don’t consider myself creative enough. But it sure feels better than PvE realms.
And it sure is pretty awesome to see a huge group of RPers doing something, compared to just standing around the capital cities.
I play almost exclusively on RP realms. I haven’t really participated in any big RP for many years, but I avoid out of character and that is usually enough.
A good friend of mine came over today and gave me about $200 worth of foam miniature storage trays for my Flames of War miniatures, then helped me transfer all my stuff over to them. The old storage solution was a bunch of cardboard trays which got destroyed when my apartment flooded a few weeks ago.
Technically, they are Striped Bark Scorpions, very common in the southwest, midwest and Mexico, we call them wood scorpions down here.
Best way to find them is to use a blacklight, cause the the little bastards glow in the dark under UV light, and they love to hide in clothes and shoes.
