Oesric: Strict Role-Playing Server?

Would you like to see Oreck as a strict RP server?

  • Yes, Oerik should be a strict RP server (with in-campaign names, no OOC banter, enforcement)

    Votes: 3 10.0%
  • No, Oerik should just be a regular server.

    Votes: 27 90.0%

  • Total voters
    30
  • Poll closed .

Elminster

Sage of Shadowdale
Apologies for the title error; the server name is so hideous my brain has actually given it a mask to wear.
 

Ptalon

Well-known member
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."
 

Blunt Hackett

Well-known member
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.
 

vik

Well-known member
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."
mmm...need moar dream pies...
 

Hireling

Well-known member
Let's not talk about my racist past.
Let's discuss my racist future.
I will dislike Elves and elf adjacent on all the servers.
 

vik

Well-known member
Let's not talk about my racist past.
Let's discuss my racist future.
I will dislike Elves and elf adjacent on all the servers.
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 :p
 
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erethizon1

Well-known member
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.
 

Vua

Mostly A Douche
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.
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.
 

Elharith

Active member
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.
This tracks with what a fellow guildie told me years ago. He said he liked the role-playing, but it was hard to keep up with it, and it slowly died out. Occasionally, he and I will role-play when in a party with fellow guildies, but we don't expect an entire server to act accordingly.
 
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