Roleplay
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Role Play: Accents and other quirks in roleplay
World of Warcraft has a wide variety of playable races to choose from. Each race comes with its own quirks — and in some cases, its own particular dialect. This means that voice files…
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Role Play: Roleplaying a member of the Army of the Light
Patch 7.3 has arrived, and with it a new faction — the Grand Army of the Light. While we’ve seen evidence of the Army on Azeroth, only now have we encountered the majority of…
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Role Play: Are you sabotaging your roleplay?
You might be new to roleplaying, with a brand-new character looking for interaction. Or you might be a roleplayer who’s been around for years, whose character has a lengthy and detailed history. But no…
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Role Play: Plot points for roleplayers headed into patch 7.3
Argus is clearly visible in the sky for all players now. We just had a new 7.3 related scenario drop yesterday. All signs are pointing to the fact that patch 7.3 is nearly upon…
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Role Play: Dealing with expansion lulls
Roleplaying is a different kind of animal in World of Warcraft. It’s not like PVP or PVE — Blizzard isn’t creating the content for you, you’re creating it yourself. Roleplaying guilds can and do…
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Huge RP tournament event saved by phasing hotfixes
Every year, Moon Guard hosts a week-long competitive roleplaying event for all the RP servers: the Tournament of Ages. Thousands of players attend from over 20 guilds to compete in jousting, racing, PVP duels,…
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Role Play: The logistics of length in roleplay
A large portion of roleplaying comes from the creation of a compelling character. You want to make a well-rounded character with an interesting background, for any potential exploration into that character’s past. You want…
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Role Play: Roleplaying the extraordinary
As I said when I started this column, you can roleplay whatever you want. But when you leap out of the realm of ordinary roleplay, you’ve got a difficult task ahead. The question of…
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Role Play: Roleplaying the ordinary
In World of Warcraft, and Legion in particular, the story is all about fantasy and heroic deeds. Every expansion, our characters prepare to deal with whatever all-powerful, cosmic villain happens to be threatening their…
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Role Play: Showing vs. telling in roleplay
Sure, a good story is meant to be shared -- but how do you effectively tell that story in your roleplay, without giving everything away?
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