this is so sad. harden up and do it!!!
also yeah I’m drinking Pepsi too even if I prefer Coke.
one of my vulpera started smooching one of the people they like so that’s pretty nice i guess
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In other Sarestha RP news, I also created this abomination. A friend of mine moved to allyside MG and while I wanted to stay on WRA (and even run an RP guild here on WRA) I said I’d make an alt to RP with them there from time to time. Anyway, I couldn’t think of a character. I was stuck for inspirational ideas.
And then I watched Marvel’s “Loki” series xD
Obsessed with the idea of Variants I had a big old brain thonk and decided to ask the question: How could Sarestha be radically changed if one little thing went differently in her backstory? In this case, her mother was not killed during the fall of Lordaeron city. As such, the story transpired that teenage Sarestha did not flee East to Tyr’s Hand as she did in the main universe… but rather her mother took her with Jaina Proudmoore’s forces, to find refuge in Kalimdor. As such, instead of becoming a Scarlet Crusader and later dying, Sarestha became a Paladin of the Light, spending a good few years of her life in Theramore, until it too was destroyed.
I haven’t RPed her much yet but I thought if I’m gonna roll an alt on a new server I’ll treat it as an alternate universe where things went a bit differently for my main character! I’m still working out in which ways her personality is the same and in which they are different based on what she’s been through, but hey, it’s a fun idea that I’ve been enjoying fiddling around with, as a bit of a casual side-gig.
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I’m the cooler Sarestha just fyi
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I’ve been RPing as an engaged, proactive human being on MS Teams. It’s a bit grindy at times but the achievements and quest reward$ are top.
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At the moment enjoying rping my warlock and my high elf. Trying to get back into horde RP though!
Just hopping back into RP myself with my Vulpera nomad here. Just joined a very promising looking guild so we’ll see how it goes! Biggest hurdle is that I work overnights so finding time to RP is a bit of a hassle
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A couple of Tabletop games, mostly. A Wrath and Glory campaign (Warhammer 40k RPG setting) in which I’m playing a Genestealer Cultist Neophyte Hybrid who has ended up as part of a Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor’s retinue after inadvertently saving the life of her Interrogator. So now I’m fighting heretics and Daemons in the name of the Four Armed Emperor while my new Inquisition friends are mildly bemused by my backwater worship practices.
Best part of that campaign so far was when I got detained by a Ordo Xenos Interrogator (for obvious reasons) but a lot of lucky dice rolls, draining the party’s Glory pool, and two Wrath re-rolls I managed to convince the Interrogator I was harmless by tying my belief system into the greater whole of the Imperial Cult.
We also did a D&D “one-shot” that has spun off into a side campaign in which it’s a YORO run (You Only Roll Once), meaning once we picked character classes, we rolled to determine our stats and there was no shifting of numbers. What we rolled is what we ended up with. Thus I ended up with a Paladin with middling Strength but maxed out Charisma. And since it was supposed to be a one shot, I decided to make the Paladin the stereotypical Bard meme in which he brought people to the faith…intimately.
This has led to a lot of hilarity that probably played no small part in why we’re still carrying on with the campaign, since technically Seduction isn’t a violation of alignment if a character honestly believes a good roll in the hay will save someone’s soul.
Game-wise, RPGs are kind of on pause for me right now. Considering a new run through of Skyrim in the near future though playing around with mechanics in the game I’ve still not given proper attention to though - namely being a Vampire Necromancer.
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I haven’t rped with others in quite a while now, though I do eventually hope to return to form on ESO. I’ve got a doc with write ups for a bunch of my characters there already. I’ve also gotten back into Skyrim and have been running several characters there.
In related news I’ve been considering writing up some short stories for of my favorite WoW rp characters, to give them something of a send off while I’m away. Not sure when that’ll happen though. I suspect, when it comes to rp related things, I’ll be more rp adjacent for a time; but to be frank, as long as I’m still writing I find it a bit hard to care.
It seems like a lot of people are in dearths of in-game RP. Is anyone finding alternatives outside of ESO?
Unless you’re playing FFXIV it doesn’t seem like theres really any MMOs out right now with good RP. Kind of sucks tbh
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You ask for our RP?
One of us was a rigid magister, with single focus bordering obsession, on an investigation, tasked to him. Another was a relentless Orc warrior sergent, who would swing axe at anyone who became threat to Orgrimmar. Even warchief.
Both got none in common. And broke into infighting, more than once, along the journey. Only missions given to each of them, by their countries, which happen to lead to same destination – binded them. “Else, I probably be see dem go at each other throat, already, mon” as told by one of accompany allies.
But as they progressed deeper inside enemy territory, each’s expertise save other’s throat, more than once. And they eventually came to be comrades. No one know when that happened. Even the 4-5 allies that joined along the way.
They went to explore old world, together. Then BC Classic’s aggro radius and etcetera, change our usual interactions from something like…
Magister: These massacred corpses weren’t even militia. They were merely farmers.
Sergeant Drakthull: These skulls belong to my kind. My people. I shall pile more human bones and avenge for their souls.
into this…
Magister: Watch out 5th wolf!
Sergeant Drakthull: SHEEP IT. QUICK.
Magister: it pull 4 more swordmen!
Sergeant Drakthull: RUNNNNNN
Then we just talk ooc ever since. *shrug * I mean, classic is pretty fun.
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If you haven’t seen Tam around, it’s mostly because I’ve been very preoccupied with guild related roleplay lately.
I’ve gone from being my guild’s advertiser/recruiter to actually running things as Guild Leader. That means less time spent hanging out in the Valley of Honor, at server RP events, in Discords, and on the forums/Tumblr/etc and more time with the day-to-day managing of the guild’s activities.
It’s meant some IC changes in Tam’s story too, as she\s finally ascended to the rank of CEO. Sure, she’s always wanted wealth/power, but now she’s having to deal with the responsibility that comes with it. She’s had to trade out her wardrobe of fancy outfits for a business suit. She spends more time in offices and meetings than bars and parties. She has to deal with people calling her ma’am and refer to them in kind by using their actual names instead of the cutsey little nicknames she’s used to (as that’s unprofessional). More work. Less play. Not that I haven’t enjoyed it immensely.
I’m also going back to school full time this year and finally returned back to the workforce. So yeah. That keeps me very busy too.
…
I’ve tried FFXIV RP of and on over the years, but it just hasn’t clicked for me. I’ll tag along to help friends and other newbies get into the Game and even show them how to RP, but I log into FFXIV for 3 things primarily: Treasure Hunts, The Gold Saucer, and crashing the Market Board.
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Tabletop with friends. We’re all also playing Valheim and debating creating a tabletop campaign based on it. My most /played hrs right now are still in Valheim though. I never thought being a Viking architect/engineer would be this entertaining and yet, I am completely and thoroughly enjoying creative mode and building/tearing things down.
I will randomly get the itch to log into WoW a few times a week, but I still haven’t managed to do more than startup the launcher and stare at it, only to close it again without actually logging in.
Shadowlands release is coming up on one year and this is, without exception, the expac that hung me upside down and drained me out. Depressing, when I think about how much I loved this universe, once upon a time.
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It’s insane, isn’t it? I’ve genuinely enjoyed every expansion I’ve played, from Cata to BFA. I’ve had my criticisms and things that I didn’t like, sure. But in all of those expansions I’ve had more that I’ve genuinely enjoyed than what I’ve disliked.
Shadowlands has one or two things that intrigue me a LITTLE, but nothing I really enjoy. When I finally came back to playing WoW it was, for the first time ever, because I missed my friends. Not because I missed the universe.
It’s really tough, honestly.
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I genuinely like Shadowlands. I like the lore- I don’t mind it. My guild is doing a military campaign in the Maw itself and writing around the difficulties of trying to build camp and set up supply lines in super hell is actually fun and cool!
I like the content. I like the intrigue. Raids, mythic plus, the whole nine yards. But what this expac has done to this server, this community, has literally been one of the most existentially depressing things I’ve ever gone through. I feel like I genuinely beat a years long writing funk I was going through and I did it too late to interact with anyone. I’ll log into Stormwind Saturday at noon and it’ll be completely empty. Actually, completely and totally empty.
The expac caused it to wither. The lawsuit made it disintegrate. I don’t plan on going anywhere, just…praying it’ll come back.
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Agreed, agreed. I think one of the things that bothers me the most, is that as far as a concept goes - it may have been the one expac I was looking forward to the most. “Death” and the “afterlife” in WoW has always been poked and prodded. I was excited about the idea…but unfortunately once I got past the ‘new shiny’? Forget it. I was done.
I am genuinely happy that some people are enjoying it and like you, I don’t plan on leaving. I am trying to ride this out. I’ve always said I would be with WoW until the bitter end and I’m a stubborn fool and not leaving. I’m just not much for logging in at the moment.
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I’m currently playing two characters: Wandren Lan’thalor, a worgen ex-Defias bandit who’s dedicated her life after leaving to healing and protecting others. She’s a bit listless right now, as her main guild doesn’t currently have a running campaign.
And this one, Nilûphêl, Heiress to House Valois. She’s a noblewoman who strives to represent what nobility is meant to be. Kind, caring, diplomatic, generous, and working above all to protect the people who she is charged with protecting. She considers her people to be all the people of Suramar, and she joined the Duskwatch Saberguard to protect them all. Currently involved in the Helping Hands and Year of the Scourge campaigns.
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I’m pretty new to RPing. But at the moment I think I’m aiming to write this character as a shy, soft booknerd. Which is ironic in that he chose Maldraxxus as his covenant, maybe he’s hoping the most hardcore soldiers in the universe can help toughen him up a bit.
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Apparently the last campaign before I joined had a murloc DK and, before he had to stop due to IRL commitments, was one of the funnier characters.
This means I have my eye on a gnoll paladin once we start a new campaign.
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