Classic: Playing as Your Past Self

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Not sure if this has been covered already but:
I’ve been playing WoW on and off for years, and only started RPing about two years ago, so I missed RPing through quite a lot. What do people see as the limits and drawbacks of playing your past self in WoW Classic?

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Limited character development.
You already know how and where they end up by the time you made them in retail, so you can’t -really- do a whole lot with them without retconning their current version.

Also, you can only do it if you’re one of the vanilla races. So about 95-98% of Horde RPers (blood elves) aren’t going to be able to do that.

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Some RPers / RP characters claim to be from “new content” zones (Gilneas / Kul Tiras / Draenor…), and that can’t be RPed in Classic.

For some RPers / RP characters, their visual attire and/or equipment is a crucial element of their character. That can be a problem in Classic.

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I prefer to see wow classic as an alternative timeline.
One where the dev’s didnt screw the lore over.

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This. It’s impossible to have the same history as the one your character already got since you will meet other characters than you have accounted for, so either make a new one or treat it as a different timeline :slight_smile:

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I’d much rather make a new character for new experiences, maybe with a couple of familiar details as a tribute to the original. Retreading old paths as a new person, you go forward untethered.

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In the end I decided to go for a new character for many of the above reasons - because as said I realised the interactions would be completely different (especially since most people who have gone from AD to HW have changed also started anew).

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I’m doing a new character separate from my current roster. 3 of my characters are expansion races anyway so they can’t exist in Classic and I can’t be bothered to try and fit my classic characters into retail lore so separate character.

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I could theoretically make an alternative timeline high elf version of my char and use a human to portray her, but… a part of me really wanted to play a gnome. So, my gnome was born. I don’t have a backstory or even a first name for him, but he’s definitely there. Will think of all that stuff when I start RPing him.

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I made a younger version of me, but after one (new) guild meet, I realised you have no free character development. I’m gonna replace her by a new char with a bit different name.

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What do you mean, no free character development? :thinking:

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The past of Hathorion is written, so for a younger version the future is written. So the young one cant make her own / different choises. That is no fun to RP, with a new guild, tauren around her who were not there in Hathorions past.

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If you assumed it is an alternative universe and the path she takes can be different to her “real” one, she definitely could develop.

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I have considered that option too. And probably the whole server will develop as an alternative timeline :rofl:. Well, I didn’t delete young Hath, so it still is an option :grin:.

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My chars messed with alternative timelines before it was crappy draenor :slight_smile: so i don’t realy want to rp it over again.

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