[A] Recently transferred returning player, where do I begin?

[Kump-argent-dawn]

Hello friend, and welcome to Argent Dawn!

@Thermoblix-the-shatar

I tried looking on the forums, but I couldn’t find like, a server-specific newcomer’s guide.

This is a guide about RPing overall, maybe not specific about how AD is, though! But it’s quite useful.

Guide to roleplay for newcomers

If this guide seems familiar to some of you, it’s a rewrite from the old forums, where I posted the guide years ago. The School for Kids Who Can’t RP Good and Want to Do Other Stuff Good Too. So… You joined a roleplaying server. Perhaps you have been around for a while, maybe you just arrived. Hopefully you got a little curious about it, what are those weird people talking about anyway? “Greetings milady, how are thou?” is a sentence no orc should ever say. However, it can be tough to know h…

@Thermoblix-the-shatar

I’d like some information on where people on here hang out, are there any chat channels you use to communicate, etc.

If you mean for OOC communication:
In game: Whisper (although used for IC aswell, sometimes), guild chat, general, trade, battle.net and alike are OOC chats, and not used for RP.
Outside it, usually Discord communities and forums, Argent Archives and alike are used.

@Thermoblix-the-shatar

I would especially like to join an IC channel that one could use to do some RPing even while questing or such; I recall that being a lot of fun for me back in the day.

I think you should bit elaborate about what you mean of channel.
But! Overall, /s , /y and /e are only for RP and IC talking, if that’s what you mean. And sometimes there are IC chat channels in discord servers, mainly guild servers, for this purpose.

But if you mean communities or guilds, to find people to RP with and do all the stuff, there are plenty of good ones around.
You can add me on Discord, so I’ll invite you to some of the communities: Lightbearer#8393

Overall, a good step to get into RP would be joining an RP guild, and there are plenty of good RP guilds out there. You can just say what kind of RP guild you’re interested in, and they will be recommended.
For example, as it says you’re a gnome, i suggest some Gnome guilds:
Assemblage of Uld
Arclight Association
Gnomish air corps

@Thermoblix-the-shatar

I’m also quite out of date when it comes to mods or other tools people use for RP. Are there any common ones I should be aware, or any ‘cultural’ things that I should be aware of?

The first and most necessary kind of RP addon, are the profile ones. Using them, you can make a profile for your character, aswell as see others’ .
The most common RP addon is Total RP 3, which i recommend it aswell. There are also other ones like MRP and XRP, but TRP i used more than others.
There are other addons aswell, which can be useful, but they aren’t as necessary as TRP.

@Thermoblix-the-shatar

For anyone interested, I am mostly here to experience all the content; I haven’t been playing since the Cataclysm hit, so there is a lot I want to see and do. I’m playing very casually, but it’d be nice to have some people around to talk with, maybe even run some old dungeons or raids together to experience the lore.

Joining guilds and communities is the first step to find people to do content and all stuff with. Feel free to add me on my Discord which i wrote above, so i can invite you to some communities, redirect you to what you seek, and discuss things further if needed. Overall, I’ll be happy to help!

Once again welcome to Argent Dawn, I’m sorry if i didn’t offer the best answers. Best of luck!