Would you like to be introduced to RP by doing a test run of sorts, together with someone who knows the ropes?
Like, you and the other person agree on some simple background & small mission. The more experienced RPer can then guide you through it, interacting with each other and with strangers alike. If you don’t know what to do/say, you can ask your companion OOC, in /whisper or party chat, and they can shoot some advice your way.
For instance: we are two clerics from Northshire who were sent to Stormwind to buy the Abbot a birthday gift, but we don’t really know what to get him, so we’ve decided to go look around.
How I picture it would go
First, you and the experienced player (Me for example) establish some basic things about our clerics’ personalities. Maybe you’d like to RP someone curious, easily impressed, and shy?
Your companion RPer could then complement that by creating someone who’s snarky, easily amused, and outgoing.
On our walk through Stormwind, going from shop to shop, some unscripted and interesting things may happen:
- Maybe we stumble upon an ongoing fight! What do our characters do?
- We might happen see a death knight threatening somebody, causing our clerics to argue about whether we should intervene or not.
- Or someone asks us for instructions on how to get somewhere, and we aren’t exactly sure either but we got time to burn, so we accompany her to the place she wants to go.
- Or my cleric wants to drop by the graveyard to say a prayer.
- Or your cleric suddenly remembers that his sister wants a candle from the Cathedral, so we go inside to buy/ask for one.
- At the Cathedral some wounded character might stumble in, asking for mending. Are our clerics up to the challenge, or do we send them on to a local priest?
When we’ve had enough of Stormwind, and when we’ve bought a birthday gift (or failed to), we walk back to Northshire and then we part ways. The curtain drops.
This would all take place in a single RP sessions of 1-2 hours on any night of the week. I think it’s a fun way to “try on” a character and personality. Not all too complicated a quest, not purposeless wandering alone either. You don’t have to keep the character we created for the scenario, but you can if you want to, of course.
If you think it sounds fun and you’d like to give it a try (even if you’re a bit anxious!) just say the word and we can do this, or any other scenario we come up with.
Personally I love hanging out with new RPers and showing 'em the ropes. So I’m up for this kind of thing any day.
The offer is open to anyone who’d like to dip their toes into RP but doesn’t know how, or feels unsure or anxious about how to get into it.