tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7325219522801476811.post9195895975405358289..comments2023-05-10T08:53:21.338-04:00Comments on Adventures of Desdarii: Learn 2 RP: Your Character’s StoryJamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09913593162292728969noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7325219522801476811.post-77058311424635316212008-06-11T07:43:00.000-04:002008-06-11T07:43:00.000-04:00I tend to be the kind of roleplayer that enjoys we...I tend to be the kind of roleplayer that enjoys weaving an extensive history, but I always go out of my way to leave parts of the story open to be inclusive. In other words, while I might say that my cantankerous kal'dorei priestess was a former Sister of Elune and outline major activities or events from her past, that isn't going to prevent me from taking another player's input when he also plays a Sister of Elune and start talking about shared experiences. Or with my perky human priestess, who grew up in Elwynn Forest; I ran into a player who roleplayed as growing up in the same area and so we decided that, yes, we both remembered his character as the strange fellow that dated Csilla's sister way back in the day -- even though it wasn't something scripted in her story originally.<BR/><BR/>The idea of roleplaying is to be inclusive, of course!<BR/><BR/>Concerning applying personal experiences, I tend to pick a staple personal personality trait that I have and apply it to each of my girls; it helps me roleplay them since I can relate to <I>something</I> about that. In particular, my tauren druid has an intense phobia of water over four inches. As a child, I was in a serious drowning accident that required me to be resuscitated; this left me with -- you guessed it -- an blinding fear of water over four inches (up until the point where I decided to be a sailor and overcome said fear!). This has resulted in a lot of fun roleplaying experiences, and quirks, such as the fact that she has never ever ridden a boat in-game. And there was that one memorable time in Wailing Caverns where a bunch of newly rerolled non-roleplayers on the servers roleplayed getting my character drunk enough to swim through the water towards the portal to the instance.<BR/><BR/>And I'll get her waterform one day, promise! Lujza's in her 30s and still hasn't pick it up (she chickened out), but I figure I'll make a huge deal of it when she's 70. Maybe she'll fail a second time before getting her goal, but it's fun!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com