so logging into Shattrath City last night actually blew my mind a little bit. it is literally the only place in the entire game where Alliance and Horde characters just stand around in the same tavern staring at each other. you just hang out by the Aldor or Scryer banks and the faction tension is automatically there without even trying. finding the best RP zones in TBC Outland Classic right now is wild cause every single map feels like a completely different game. the Shattrath City roleplay people are setting up already feels way more natural than I expected.

but then you step outside the sanctuary and look at all the other TBC Anniversary RP zones Outland brought back. you take a flight path and suddenly Nagrand has this whole roleplay atmosphere that feels perfect for any kind of tribal or shaman guild. then you go to Netherstorm and suddenly you are just surviving in this crazy sci fi magic wasteland.

honestly though the racial backgrounds are the main reason Im actually staying here. exploring the Blood Elf storyline for RP in TBC Anniversary gives you such dark and heavy material to work with. you play a race completely broken by the Scourge and dealing with massive Fel magic withdrawals every single day. trying to find your place in the Horde while grieving the loss of the Sunwell is just a really tragic character arc.

then you look at the Draenei lore RP side of TBC Anniversary and it is just as heavy in a totally different way. youre playing literal cosmic genocide survivors desperately trying to rebuild their society on a shattered floating rock. the psychological weight of playing Draenei right now is so different from normal high fantasy stuff. since we dont have official RP servers we just have to do this organically out in the wild, which honestly makes Outland feel way more alive anyway.

is anyone else actually doing RP out here right now or is everyone just sticking to retail?

So I’m making an eredar warlock and am stuck between 2 names for her.

So far I have Vexariel and Nekiri, do y’all think either name workd well lore wise or should I keep looking. From what I read their names are slightly different from Draenei

I am sick of walk ups that are just small talk. I have tried a few guilds but every single one feels clique. Like if you are new you are kind of treated like a nobody. Nobody wants to introduce their characters to yours. No responses. Makes me feel like I am on mute. Its a weird dynamic and I am just curious on how people join RP guilds and integrate themselves into the community.

I would love to join a guild for organized RP. But it often feels like I just get to see other people have a fun time.

Edit: I should add, I am an extremely outgoing person IRL. I try to strike up convos with anybody. But it just seems to be ignored because im not in the "Cool Kids Club". Extremely disheartening

I mean, their magic is based on burning soul, suffering, and fel diarrhea... I could see how one is kind in mentality, but when it comes to then using your magic, there is nothig good hearted in buring folks and their souls :/

I'm a "draenei fanatic" and I've been playing solo since MOP, and with all these new races I see fewer and fewer people playing draenei, or who really like the race, so now I want to look for a guild with draenei members to participate in RP and interact, but I only found one on the European servers, which makes it unfeasible.

Hello!

As the post states, I am looking for an Orc Warlock who would be willing to tie themselves into my human detective's story! His name is Victor Middleton and after he was thrown out of the Guard, he trained / is training under an Orc Warlock. Now, I would love to do some mentor stuff and training stuff - this could be both in-game (if we have decent times ) as well as discord! Most likely, alot of discord inbetween getting to meet in game!

This would be a fair amount of plotting and planning - more so because whatever your lore is for your character? We could work together to fit Victor in. I can tie your character in and change Victors story within reason!

I do want some mentor rp, learning training ect. Communication is a must! If you're interested? Let me know!

I do think Mentor stuff would be great personally and would be fun to do!

I will note that this will be cross-faction as well! Server does not matter! I am on moonguard, however!

(hear me out lol) I love playing highborne and Night Elf race as a whole. I DISPISE the NE male casting animation (the Invoking the power of the "Lord" in church animation). I was curious to see if it would be accepted to use Void Elf skin (with RP3 addon explaining the race change) as a Highborne NE? And obviously trying to use NE skin colors and hair styles/color as much as possible. And also aware that i would not take offence to players without RP addon treating me by actual race in-game, but politely explain OOC.

Hi everyone,

I’m a Master’s student at the University of Oulu, Finland, and I’m conducting a survey for my thesis about how players relate to their video game avatars/characters.
Survey link: https://shadmansaki.github.io/avatar-survey-randomizer/

This is relevant to WoW Roleplay because roleplaying in World of Warcraft often involves creating a character with a specific appearance, race, class, faction, backstory, personality, and identity. I’m especially interested in how players experience and relate to these characters, including how the character may connect to the player’s feelings, choices, self-expression, or roleplay experience. The survey is completely anonymous, and no personal information is collected. The responses will be used only for my Master’s thesis research.

Researcher (myself) information:
Name: Shadman Saki Riffat
University: University of Oulu, Finland
Contact email: sriffat24@student.oulu.fi

I’m really lucky to be researching something I genuinely enjoy, so it would mean a lot if you could help out a fellow gamer!

So I've done my research on the Haranir race and I keep seeing Hara'ti. Now it is explained their the ones that came down to the cradle, bit that is it. Now the question is, is it the same case with the Draenei and Eredar? Or are there still Hara'ti? As well as would it be a bad idea to RP a Hara'ti, or should I keep it Haranir?

Not sure if this is the correct tag.

I'm working on a night elf druid character and would like to write how she learns her druid form(s). I'm wondering if there's anything in the lore about how a druid would go about it with their mentor. Also, how does a druid shapeshift? Is it similar to Worgen transformations/shapeshifting, where it's painful/uncomfortable? Or does it just happen like with a poof? Do they have to match the movement of the form, like getting on all fours for cat or bear?

Lots of questions here, would appreciate any help. :)

Small context: Returning player on moonguard. Have myself a sort of Hunter of fame and fortune, claiming treasures and hunting for trophies type deal.

I’ve been trying to find the olden art of adventure roleplays as I miss the days I could just walk into Stormwind or Ogrimmar and just accidentally be pulled into random RP leading to anywhere in the game.

Now after coming back from another MMO I find myself trying to find this style of RP, but seems most I can find is the social walk up stuff. I know a lot of adventure/quest stuff became heavilly guild centric but even in my guild hunts I haven’t found anything that doesn’t either feel pure military, or (Politely) some aggressively excessive power fantasy.

Am I just dumb? Or is it actually now that hard to find random adventure RP or even guilds that are focused on adventure and quests over the big endgame ‘heroes of Azeroth’ stuff?

New player here.

What are all the places where people roleplay regularly in AD EU and what kind of roleplayers choose those areas?

I read AD has a reputation of having military roleplayers but who else are there and where exactly? Don’t tell me about Stormwind or Goldshire because we already know about those places.

Cheers!

I guess this is like half advice and half venting.

I know there are tons of us that are shy and kind of wallflowers. Honestly, that's okay. I used to be that way. I know how it is, I know you want RP but it can be kind of scary or anxiety-inducing to impose yourself on someone else, or you don't know how to approach. I get it. Over time I've become more and more prone to initiating walk-ups with such people if their TRPs seem like ones I would enjoy interacting with. I have next to no trouble doing this anymore. I'm happy to approach such people and I do it often.

Though, a lot of you guys are shooting yourselves in the foot when it comes to how your TRPs are constructed. A lot of you accidentally make yourselves much harder to walk up to than you need to be. There have been so many profiles of characters that look like they'd be fun for my own character to walk up to. My first step in walking up is checking their "Currently" and "At First Glance" to see if there's anything they're doing that I can work with on my approach, and the amount of times there's just nothing there for me to actually work with (leading me to change my mind and find someone else) is just tragic.

If you want more walk-ups, please try and consider your "Currently" and "At First Glance" sections as opportunities for hooks. They can be small or relatively mundane, it can be extravagant but it doesn't have to be. Maybe they're currently jotting some notes down and my character can try to take a curious peek, or they're enjoying a snack and my character can try to solicit a bite in a manner that's way less subtle than she thinks it is. Maybe one of your glances is a possession that's not super common to see and my character can be curious about it. You're totally wasting the walk-up potential these sections can have when you have two glances, one of them being "His facial hair is black," and your "Currently" is something sassy like "Being a badass" instead of actually describing a thing they're doing.

Obviously everyone is welcome to structure their TRPs however they want, everything here is just my own perspective, but if you're a shy wallflower parked alone and genuinely hoping for more random walk-ups, please consider what I wrote lol, as a walk-upper it is infinitely easier for me to do that with profiles that consider the above.

This is part of a series of discussions inviting community feedback for the next version of the pinned starter guide.

What are some absolutely necessary terms to know that you see in discussions or profiles? To be added to the following list or otherwise referenced to this post:

Terminology

RP - Role-Play. The exercise of playing the game in such a way that the actions of the avatar reflect the traits and beliefs of a fictional character of the player’s design. It can be a solitary activity or collaborative.

RP Realm- designated by "RP" or "RP-PVP" under "server/realm type". They are identical to PvE/PvP servers except that they are mostly exempt from sharding and the addition of moderation rules against interrupting/griefing RP events. It is populated by people who usually want to RP in some fashion. RP realms do not use sharding outside of the latest expansion's content.

IC - In Character. Refers to when your posts reflect what your character would do.

OOC - Out Of Character. Refers to when your posts/chat is you, the player, is talking. Usually designated by some form of brackets ((like this)) [[or this]].

Walk-ups - When one character approaches another character without prior OOC planning.

Profile - A profile created using an addon (See below) that is an essential part of walk-up RP.

d20 or d100 - refers to rolling dice with 20 or 100 sides respectively. You can do this in WoW using the /roll command.

/s or /e - AKA /say or /em, /emote. Refers to the chat channels that by default appear in white and orange respectively. In RP, these represent what your character says and does(emotes).

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I plan to roll a Horde Earthen, son looking for some inspiration! Tell me about your cool ass Horde Earthen!

So I have the thing, spent 2 million gold to get it, but if I never use it, then it's a waste of gold which I could use for virtually anything else. So if I want to incorporate it as a character's actual mount so that I can feel a bit better about spending that amount of gold(and money for tokens) what would be the most sensible way to do it?

I thought of a kind of crazed Human, Night Elf or High Elf (accomplished by using the Void Elf or Blood Elf customization), a not quite crazed troll, or any kind of undead. Thing is, a lot of those are overused, not to the same end, but they are overused. Hunter, Shaman and Druid have been the classes considered from a gameplay perspective, I know well enough that TRP will make me whatever I need to be.

Anyway, I really want to know if any of you would know how to write a gigantic spider into a story, and as someone's mount because in the lore, it has not happened.

i've RP'd off/on in WoW, most of it though was in WoW classic when that first came out. i wanted to get back into RP and had to /gquit my last RP guild due to them not allowing plural characters (i have DID and wanted to explore a fantasy version without trauma in WoW again, something i did in WoW classic), so i'm trying to find a new one.

it's been awhile since i've been super into WoW lore, so having people around who can help out with questions about that or questions about RP generally would be nice. i'm moving soon so i don't have a ton of free time atm, but i want to be able to engage in events here n there and hopefully make friends to have long-term RP with.

to be clear, i'm not trying to RP some edgy character with crazy personalities. i have DID and have been in therapy with a specialist for 4 years and been diagnosed for longer, as well as have been active in the plural community since diagnosis. i've done my research and i'm not planning to RP DID even 😭😭 i just want to RP something similar to myself, albeit with different personality traits and background (obviously).