character development
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Discussion
How important are narrative choices to you?
World of Warcraft has been around for a long time, and players have happily been running errands for NPCs throughout every expansion. Even as the story…
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Lore
Know Your Lore: BlizzCon and the nature of new lore reveals
In just a few short days, BlizzCon 2017 will be here — and with it, a cavalcade of announcements. At this point, it’s almost a certainty…
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Roleplay
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…
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Roleplay
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,…
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Roleplay
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…
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Roleplay
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…
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Roleplay
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…
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Roleplay
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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Roleplay
Role Play: Conflict in roleplay
You might think of conflict as a negative term — after all, it’s primarily used in situations where things are going wrong. But in storytelling and…
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Roleplay
Role Play: When styles collide
There are a wide variety of roleplaying guilds, groups, and organizations out there in World of Warcraft. Every guild has its own rules and regulations in…
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