WELCOME TO ARGENT DAWN EU!
WELCOME TO ARGENT DAWN EU! ROLEPLAY GUIDES & TIPS
GUIDES
GUIDES 
Guide to Roleplay for Newcomers by Spradley
General Roleplay Guides by Tenasa
Agtherian’s Beginner Arcane and Mage RP Guide
Askari’s Guide to Shamanism and the Elements
Man’ari Eredar Roleplay Guide by Desolaari
Metals and Minerals by Telaryn 
LORE TIPS
LORE TIPS 
(Lore Video) The History of Warcraft Explained in 1 Hour by the Karazhan LibraryFINDING ROLEPLAY & COMMUNITIES
ROLEPLAY HUBS
ROLEPLAY HUBS While roleplay happens all over the world, the following locations have a higher chance of finding spontaneous walk-up roleplay:
- Stormwind
- Darkshire
- Stromgarde
- Orgrimmar (Valley of Honor)
You may also find roleplayers from time to time in Gilneas, The Hinterlands, Bel’ameth, Astranaar, Booty Bay, Silvermoon and The Crossroads, but it might not be as consistent as in the above locations.
Please note that the activity in the hubs is not representative of the roleplay landscape as a whole. While the faction capitals Stormwind and Orgrimmar are seen as melting pots, other hubs may lean more into particular themes. New content releases may also temporarily affect the activity levels in hubs.
OUTSIDE HUBS
OUTSIDE HUBS Outside hubs, there’s always roleplayers on adventures or socializing with their guild, community or friends, so you might randomly stumble into them in the wilds. Many public events are also organized outside the hubs; they’re advertised on the forums, on the Argent Archives
, or/and on Discord servers. Adventure and conflict campaigns are often advertised on the realm forums when public, and on Discord when targeting a more focused audience.
If you see a group of armed roleplayers in a forest, for example, they may be having a private roleplay event and running parts of it in a raid chat invisible to you. In this case it might be good to send one of the players a /whisper message to see what is going on before approaching them in-character.
If you’re told it’s a roleplay event, you may politely inquire whether it’s possible to join or if it’s better not to. Please don’t be discouraged if it’s not possible to partake; it might just be that the group’s story plot, ongoing scenario, or the event organizer’s capacity with player numbers makes it difficult to include new people on the spot. Wish them well and don’t take it personally!
DISCORD SERVERS 
DISCORD SERVERS Discord servers have become common for staying in the loop about the many different roleplay scenes revolving around particular themes or areas. The realm forums display only a fraction of all the buzz happening in the roleplay community as a whole.
Argent Dawn EU Roleplay is currently the largest general discord where you can find a repository of more niche community discords and roleplay resources. Public roleplay events found across different advertising platforms are also posted there in daily, weekly and monthly listings.
Forum links to some of the more niche communities below. They’ll be listed as long as the associated forum threads are open.
Assembly of Dusk
Death Knight RP
Draenei of Argent Dawn
Gilneas Denizens
Night Elf Roleplay: Amirdrassil
The Forgotten Shadows
The Hinterlands
The Warden Community
You can find a lot more servers listed on the Argent Dawn EU Roleplay discord.
IN-GAME COMMUNITIES
IN-GAME COMMUNITIES On occasion, you might see invite links to in-game communities. These communities are player-made groups where members can chat and organize events. To access the Communities in-game, open the Guild & Communities interface. They’re used to stay connected without the need to share the same guild or faction, though most players seem to prefer chatting over Discord. However, this feature is very useful for creating a crossfaction party/raid group among the members, which may benefit crossfaction events if you’re not in a crossfaction guild with the other players.
FINDING GUILDS
FINDING GUILDS Guild recruitment posts are typically shared on the realm forums, on the Argent Archives (see the Guilds page), and in the more niche community discords that cater for a specific race, area or theme. Other than that, your best bet is to meet people in the game world and look for interesting guilds through the many public events organized on the server. Some guilds host information on sites like Carrd, and the members may have a link to it from their TRP profiles.
Don’t be shy to post on the forums if you’re looking for a specific type of guild - people are often happy to offer tips and recommendations.
Finding the right guild can feel like a gamble as far as roleplay preferences, expectations and group dynamics go. Don’t be disheartened if the first guild you join doesn’t work out - take it as a learning experience and check out what else there is that might interest you.
WEBSITES
The Argent Archives is a webportal created in 2007 to help tie the Argent Dawn roleplay community together. Despite running on an old framework, many roleplayers continue using the site to this day for sharing public character profiles and events, and for posting literature, visual arts and screenshots related to roleplay. Logged-in users have an access to the archive’s search function - there’s a lot of server history at your fingertips!
Warcraft Wiki - When it comes to WoW lore, this site is great for finding information about anything and everything related to the setting, with sources provided (in-game, books, etc.). Formerly known as Wowpedia, and before that as WoWWiki, the website was split from Fandom and moved to wiki.gg in 2023. Please refer to the Warcraft Wiki for the most up-to-date content. The Timeline page may be useful when planning your character background.
Wowhead - Having difficulties with a quest? Unsure where to find a specific NPC or item? Need help with talent builds? Head over to Wowhead - a searchable database created to provide World of Warcraft players with tools and information to make their gameplay more enjoyable.
The Ultimate Guide to Warcraft Lore in Print - If you’d like to get your hands on WoW literature outside the game but are unsure where to begin, Blizzard Watch maintains a guide listed in chronological order. This means that instead of being listed by when the material was published, it’s being listed by its order in the Warcraft lore timeline so you can start at the beginning and read your way all to the end if that’s your desire.
Watch2Gether - If you’d like to use YouTube videos for background music at a roleplay event, Watch2Gether lets users create a watch room where you can add videos or audio tracks to play in sync for everyone in the room.
IN-GAME ROLEPLAY RESOURCES
ROLEPLAY ADDONS
ROLEPLAY ADDONS AddOns are widely used by WoW players in the context of RP, PvE and more to improve the gaming experience. WoWHead’s guide on installing AddOns
Total RP 3 - for creating and previewing character profiles in-game. Usually referred to as TRP, this AddOn is very widely used, and will help you identify other roleplayers in-game. The AddOn also has a map scan for finding other roleplayers if they have enabled the setting. If you were to have just ONE roleplay AddOn, this would be it. This is enough to get started.
Cross RP AddOn - to view TRP profiles of the opposite faction.
Simply RP - Looking For RP (LFRP) - a lightweight World of Warcraft addon designed to help roleplayers find organic, spontaneous RP in the world. It’s not widely used by the community at the time of posting, but might be a nice extra to give a try.
Listener - for easier tracking of chat messages when there is a lot going on, such as busy events. It lets you see the chat messages of a targeted player cleanly in a separate overlay window.
Story Teller - useful for sharing longer stories, songs and theatre acts in-character, potentially saving you from exhaustive copy-pasting from an external document.
Musician - Musician allows your character to play music that can be heard by the other players nearby, provided that they have installed the add-on as well. Any song file in MIDI format can be played. There are 24 instruments available including lute, harp, trumpet, violin, war horn but also drum kit and electric guitar. It’s also possible to perform live music using your computer keyboard as a piano. Related plugin: MusicianFX
Shortwave Audio Player - This is a brand new AddOn that lets you create playlists from in-game music and audio files, and broadcast them to your party members. Might be fun for adding extra immersion to your roleplay events! The AddOn is still early in development. Test demo video
RP Toolkit - based on D&D 5e rules, this is an out-of-the-box event system packed neatly into a single addon. You don’t need this for everyday roleplay, but Dungeon Masters might find it an interesting AddOn for the purposes of hosting private campaigns.
HELPFUL ITEMS
HELPFUL ITEMS Elixir of Tongue is widely used for crossfaction roleplay, to understand the common language of the opposite faction. This means ‘Common’ for the Alliance, and ‘Orcish’ for the Horde. You cannot understand for instance Darnassian or Gutterspeak using the elixir.
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