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A neat idea, similar to what we're trying to accomplish with Lore nights, H-side, though we're doing it monthly on the third Saturday of the month, at seven PM, and in a less direct manner as to avoid seeming condescending.

I'll be interested to see how this turns out!

Jean, we've been trying to incorporate lore into the campfire nights. I think having people tell stories about lore is so much more entertaining than reading wow wiki or something.

I hope the roleplay lessons can be done without seeming condescending. I think they can. Imperon used to sponsor a guild that catered to new rpers and azeroth College used to hold the classes.

Oh, yeah, I wasn't trying to say they would be, hahah. I certainly hope they can be done, as we're trying to do such while avoiding the bad connotations, too.

The best of luck with it, though! The server could always use more RP events.

Y'know, Jean, it's possible weekly is a bit too much too... I hadn't thought of that til just now. How has the turn out been doing it monthly?

This is going to be our first month, so we'll see.

That might be a good idea, given the sheer amount of events A-side? I've heard you guys have quite a few.

But that's up to you. It was just suggested to me by several of the people I had brainstorming event that we do it monthly, so the organizers have enough time to prepare and think up topics.

Well, hopefully the RP classes will be fun and not at all like real classes. I fell asleep last night before I could role my new alt I'm making just for this.... but I'm very excited!

I think we have some very solid ideas to work with here. It should be fun to see what shakes out.

Still considering myself relatively new to rp, I'd be very interested in attending anything and everything that would cater to the relatively ignorant. I sit on my laptop with stars in my eyes at those of you who have mastered your craft, and am almost constantly leery of taking a rp mIs-step that will get me blacklisted.
Rp'ing around SW, I have met several great in-game friends, a couple of whom have been rp'ing blissfully unaware of the chat channels and events, much as I was my first three months in Azeroth.
Have I seen some of you standing guard at the cathedral, and would it not be more prudent to stand guard at the chapel in Northshire, and be ready to greet and inform new players or alts who are interested in role playing?
"Get'cher bags and info here!" I'd take a shift or three of that.

Sometimes, our story nights on Thursday nights take place in Northshire. Other times, we'll be in Goldshire. We are always ready to invite people into the group for storytelling and we provide bags and potions to our lower level friends.

I think this is a wonderful idea and I would be happy to stand guard at such an occasion.

I am a new person to RP, but am curious does much go on Horde side? I see mostly Alliance posters so i was curious.

Thanks

What would we think of doing a biweekly event where part 1 is Thursday and part 2 is Saturday?

Just give me the dates and times you want me to hold my part, and I'll do it :)

I think doing two events in a week would get really cluttered. There's also other peoples' events to think about.

Sckep,

Da Doctaqs hold the clinics on Tuesdays and it's well supported by horde I believe. It's a really good place to meet other rpers and get introduced to the community. I hang out in the Homeland channel when I'm hordeside, which isn't often. The also have hordeooc and hearthstoneic channels to get to know people.

There are some remarkable rpers hordeside, it's just been a little quiet lately.

Izby I think it would be better to do it just once a week so as not to crowd the calendar further.

I am a new person to RP, but am curious does much go on Horde side? I see mostly Alliance posters so i was curious.

Thanks

cenarioncircle.org is another good place to look besides the global channels.

06/05/2012 11:04 AMPosted by Aerly

I sit on my laptop with stars in my eyes at those of you who have mastered your craft, and am almost constantly leery of taking a rp mIs-step that will get me blacklisted.

^^ How I feel, lol. And being a perfectionist I am pretty sure I will always feel that way : )

No matter what though, Sign me Up! when these start. I am so there.

I'm not sure how effective a school on how to role play is really going to be. Writing styles, "commonly accepted rules", and other role play things are often times very personal. Some prefer to RP in first person, while others prefer third for example.

What might help you more is perhaps a thread (here, or CC.org, or somewhere) that's more like a... RP Q&A session-- somewhere newbies and oldies alike can ask questions like "Hey, what do you think about this?" or "I ran into this situation... what do I do?". You could even have a weekly theme... like "How do you feel about first person vs third person RP" or "When faced with a new character, what are some tricks you use to develop a back ground?" This way you can get input from Horde and Alliance at the same time, and maybe even get more participation, since people will be able to post freely whenever they have time.

In addition, you could couple this with a weekly "newbie friendly" RP event much like the Horde's Clinic. I know pretty much all of them are... but maybe make one (or modify an existing one) to explicitly call upon new folks looking for practice. Then, people can go in the weekly thread "Hey, I was player X. How do you feel about what happened? Any tips" etc etc etc.

Just an idea to help get more people involved.

Edit: The weekly threads could then have a master thread that gets stickied and adds easy-to-find links to previous topics; eventually making a guide of sorts to RP on CC.

I'm not sure how effective a school on how to role play is really going to be. Writing styles, "commonly accepted rules", and other role play things are often times very personal. Some prefer to RP in first person, while others prefer third for example.

What might help you more is perhaps a thread (here, or CC.org, or somewhere) that's more like an... RP Q&A session-- somewhere newbies and oldies a like can ask questions like "Hey, what do you think about this?" or "I ran into this situations... what do I do?". You could even have a weekly theme... like "How do you feel about first person vs third person RP" or "When faced with a new character, what are some tricks you use to develop a back ground?" This way you can get input from Horde and Alliance at the same time, and maybe even get more participation, since people will be able to post freely whenever they have time.

In addition, you could couple this with a weekly "newbie friendly" RP event much like the Horde's Clinic. I know pretty much all of them are... but maybe make one (or modify an existing one) to explicitly call upon new folks looking for practice. Then, people can go in the weekly thread "Hey, I was player X. How do you feel about what happened? Any tips" etc etc etc.

Just an idea to help get more people involved.

Edit: The weekly threads could then have a master thread that gets stickied and adds easy-to-find links to previous topics; eventually making a guide of sorts to RP on CC.

I really like this idea there Eslyn. Plus it's a great way for people to refer back to the posts.

06/05/2012 04:32 PMPosted by Eslyn

I'm not sure how effective a school on how to role play is really going to be. Writing styles, "commonly accepted rules", and other role play things are often times very personal. Some prefer to RP in first person, while others prefer third for example.

That's not the sort of thing we'd be teaching.... We're talking about teaching standards (like "don't god-mode"), jargon ("what is OOC"), RP addons, character creation.... the things that get a lot of questions, the things that can be taught. Izby had suggested a curriculum on page one, I don't know if you saw it, but it's a pretty solid list of topics to cover.

See, the reason I think teaching in game is a better idea is because then the new RPers get to try it out. I know you're saying "hold a newbie friendly RP event" but the thing is.... all RP events are newbie friendly. That doesn't make them less intimidating because it's still an RP event with normal RP going on with experienced RPers doing their own normal RP. You can call that newbie friendly, you may even fully intend for that to be newbie friendly and you may even go out of your way to be friendly to newbies at the event but.... it's still a normal RP event, not an event that looks like a good place to learn or practice.

The other reason I think an in-game thing is better is because.... let's face it. There's a million guides all over the forums to help with RP. And there's a million "codices" collecting these guides too. Some of them are good. Some of them are meh. Most of them are lost because their sticky-requests never got them stickied or are too gargantuan to be useful anymore. And then, of course, there's the question of whether or not new RPers know to look for them or where to look for them or are even looking at the forums for RP. Not all of us are on the forums.
The nice thing is, we all in game. It's the one thing we all have in common no matter what. I'm not saying these classes will catch every new RPer the comes to CC but an in-game class offers the highest chance of catching the most of them.

I do, however, think that having a thread where maybe we can sort of archive the topics would be good -- or maybe where we introduce the topics before each class -- might be good.

And I'm also concerned about calendar clutter of holding this too often. I think it should be available, absolutely, but I'm also not sure how frequently we need to have it. After all, ideally new RPers are only going to need it once and if we have it too often who is going to show up? :P