Oesric: Strict Role-Playing Server?
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Elminster
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No one is most people know these are Trolls saying this.
The Outfit
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I guess if that happened it would be thrane or bust for me.
No. If folks want to role play, they should do it on whatever server they want to play it on. And a single server shouldn't be designated as having a particular kind of play style.
Blunt Hackett
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This is why Neverwinter Nights has servers for role playing. It was made with that in mind. DDO isn't really ideal for this let alone enforcing it on 1 of 3 or 4 servers. A guild could do it if they wanted to though.
mmm...need moar dream pies...You could always just pretend it is.
(or do the Ravenloft thing, where only some of the population has actual souls.....)
"The rest of those people out there are just hollow shells, with no depth of personality."
Frieling Slyhand
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There are almost no role players in Ddo so I don’t think this is practical.
Your future: some Eladrin heard of your elvish racism when you were boasting of your elfless r10 achievements and set some traps for you in the MD forest by the Speculum. You failed your spot check against the traps, then failed your reflex save and were caught in the traps. They bound you, then threw you in the underdark for the drow to deal with. You came across a wandering mind flayer and failed your will save against its mind blast. As its thrall, for some strange reason you talk about your love for elves constantly. The end
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erethizon1
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I do appreciate that LOTRO had an unofficial RP server (followed by official RP servers when they updated things). If nothing else it is nice so there is a way to distinguish between servers that are otherwise identical. I generally pick RP servers because the people that play on them are generally nicer. It is difficult to be an arrogant end game raider that pwns noobs and also is always in character (unless that character is an arrogant jerk, which is usually just the player's real personality).
In DDO however, it is really hard to imagine an RP server. As odd as this is, while D&D is much more of a role-playing game than LOTRO, the decision to make DDO a prison (in the form of the city of Stormreach) that you can never leave except by stepping into private instances makes it very hard to role-play with strangers. You can certainly form a group of people that you play with often and role-play together, but you can do that on any server at any time because you are spending all your time in private instances. To RP with strangers you need open spaces where you can meet up with people you don't know. Our only open space is the prison of Stormreach (and now Eveningstar) and as soon as you step into any quest you are immediately cut off from anyone that is not already in your party. Role-playing with strangers is not much of a thing in DDO.
In DDO however, it is really hard to imagine an RP server. As odd as this is, while D&D is much more of a role-playing game than LOTRO, the decision to make DDO a prison (in the form of the city of Stormreach) that you can never leave except by stepping into private instances makes it very hard to role-play with strangers. You can certainly form a group of people that you play with often and role-play together, but you can do that on any server at any time because you are spending all your time in private instances. To RP with strangers you need open spaces where you can meet up with people you don't know. Our only open space is the prison of Stormreach (and now Eveningstar) and as soon as you step into any quest you are immediately cut off from anyone that is not already in your party. Role-playing with strangers is not much of a thing in DDO.
Well back when the game started, Thelanis was the (unofficial) RP server and it was known as such. Then the servers were merged and Thelanis was merged with the 2 smallest population, and generally considered the 2 most hardcore servers, Tharashk and Xoriat. It was a very interesting decision at the time. They had regular RP get togethers back then, but I had no interest personally so didn't keep up on it. Though you would sometimes join a pug with a group of them Role-playing, or a little bit stranger, have 1 role-player join with a group that wasn't.