I hope you’re all having a lovely Christmas and winter season!
So I think we’ve all noticed and seen Horde RP dwindle quite rapidly. Shadowlands didn’t help for sure and with Dragonflight coming I hoped it would breathe new life into the community. Whilst this has happened marginally - it’s better than it was at least - I see similar topics on both the forum and in discord servers crop up that Orgrimmar as a hub isn’t that great, there isn’t much on offer and unlike Stormwind, where RP happens all over the city, Orgrimmar RP is usually regulated to one valley. I’ve had this idea for a while and for the new year I wanted to share it with people and see what they think and get some ideas flowing.
What about making the Crossroads an RP hub? It’s got an ideal location in the middle of the Barrens with roads leading to Orgrimmar, Ratchet and other little areas for RP, a tavern, an area for merchants/traders and generally is a nice place that I feel has the ‘spirit’ of the Horde in it. It’s plenty big enough to house a lot of people and is a great springboard for guilds who want to do events in the outlying areas.
To start with it can begin small, with maybe an inn night, story gatherings, hunts, markets and other stuff every couple of days a week. This is to encourage people to come over, meet up and give a place for people who want walk-up RP, want to recruit for their guilds, or just generally want to dip their toe into Horde RP for the first time.
This hub would be open to everyone and I want to reiterate this as I know Horde-side is a lot more fragmented. We can all share the sandpit and play with the same toys. The community is better together than it is apart, even if we don’t always agree with each other.
So what do you guys think? Is this a good idea or bad idea and regardless how would you improve it and what ideas can you bring to the table?
Those people who are at a loose end will go to where the RP is. So if you keep the area alive, interest check or not, people will eventually trickle in.
Keep Crossroads full of soul and more will fly over.
I would love to see more Horde RP overall and would be willing to come to the Crossroads to help revive it. Our guild runs a shop which we could consider coming to the Crossroads with once a month (we travel on a rotation between netural/horde/ally locations). We wouldn’t want to come and be the only ones there though, so it would be good to know which days/times we would likely be able to encounter other RPers for trading and conversation, maybe some random encounters of the exciting kind
I support this and hope we all can get the ball rolling with some planning. The Crossroads are my favourite hub because of the big savannah surrounding it. It’s just peak Horde aesthetic.
EDIT:
Wow. Just because Tauren settle in the Barrens? That’s racist.
Sounds like a nice idea, as I am up for whatever brings more Horde rp. However, why not just stick to Orgrimmar or maybe even TB, given they are larger cities with more locations.
Hi there! This sounds fantastic and I’d be more than happy for your guild to host a shop there! I’m just working out what days are best for people before I post an official thread with all of the information and updates in it. Are there any days/times in particular you guys work around or prefer? It might give me a good starting point.
Hey there! Thanks for your feedback. Whilst Orgrimmar isn’t a terrible place to RP, I think it does suffer from the problem I mentioned above; that the Valley of Honour is the only place people gather usually. There’s also the issue of OOC disturbance which I’ve seen more of since DF launched. I figured this would give people an option to get away from the city and RP somewhere more open.
I’m not saying Orgrimmar shouldn’t be RP’d in, this just broadens the places Horde can branch out to as we don’t have the luxury of numbers. As for Thunder Bluff, I agree that it’s great but I’ve never seen much activity there since BFA and for some they may think it’s a little too far to go to find RP, IC or OOC. I chose Crossroads as its quite central and near to everything.
Fair enough, though I think the Valley issue can be solved by the community, its not the city issue. But whatever happens, I go where the RP is. So if you get rp going in the Crossroads, I will tag along.
We can be fairly flexible given enough notice in advance, but our usual days of operation are Fridays from 8pm ST to 10pm ST.
If it’s more convenient for people to have Crossroads RP on another night, it’s no issue, we can just do a different evening that week if necessary. Fridays or Saturdays are better for us though as our IC shop owner can stay online later on those nights.
Here is a link to our shop if that helps at all You can see what we’d bring to the table in terms of goods and trade there, and also folks can get a bit of an idea about what we do as a guild (aside from the adventuring part which you’d need to speak to us about to get a proper idea of)
Those days and times sound great to me! I imagine most folks can make it providing they don’t have other plans. Thank you for giving me the starting point I needed and for the link!
Hey Dharrach! I looked at your timetable for January and was wondering if you’d be available for the 20th-21st January as you seem free then? If not that’s okay I can work it out for February and it gives me time to get stuff started.
That’s fantastic, thank you! I’ll be making the official thread for the hub soon, hopefully this weekend, so I can condense everything. Just gotta work on what other activities that can be arranged as well.
That’s racist.