New to the Cellar

[DanaC]

Hey there babydoll, nice to meet you *smiles*

'fraid I am one o'them thar virtual roleplayers you were talkin about...

Though not WoW. Not with a ten foot barge pole would I touch that piece of shite.

I got into the first of the big mmos (Ultima Online) mainly because I hooked up with a bunch of 'proper' roleplayers: MUDs and dice based games. When I roleplay it's full on. Especially back then when ready made emotes were few and far between *chuckles* which is where the asterisks come from. It's how everyone emoted in UO. We'd come up with all sorts, really intricate stories that emerged from the different character backgrounds of those involved.

I spent the first year being painfully bad at the actual game...couldnt fight for shit (played a coward) took 12 months to max out my stats...didn't matter to me. I was a storyteller and in-game improv actor. Used to story up the quests that guilds got involved in.

Did all sorts in that game. Up to and including an actual dice game (there were sets of cup and dice to use in game) played according to rules a friend made up, in which I wagered (and lost) my character's soul. Thereby ending up a rather unlikely member of a vicious, evil gang of killer demons and vampires. At the time I was the de facto leader of a mid-size 'good' roleplay guild: losing the dice game meant me joining the other guild. Though I effectively continued to run the 'good' guild via instant messaging, at least til they could organise a stand in. I ended up on the field killing people I'd recruited.

Did wonders for my PvP skillz tho!

That was what made roleplaying fun. There were enough of us about to do some weird and wonderful shit, and everybody was committed enough to live with the consequences of their character's actions.

None of that would have been as much fun for me had I been playing in real life: difficult to carry off a male role, especially a slightly balding, high-on-his-own-supply physik, coward and scientist. Virtual roleplaying is far more than just WoW *spits on the ground* ... though admittedly the last seven or eight years haven't been brilliant on that score.