Eastern Farmlands Campfire seems to be a popular enough gathering spot if you seek campfire role-play.Forgotten-Six wrote:Where are all the RPers at?
Where are you finding these people?! Can you send them to the Ebon Blade please?Forgotten-Six wrote:Unfortunately, all I see online are scrambling packs of murder hobos.
Come meet DruegarSun Wukong wrote:Ebon Blades is campfire RP, though...
I mean, I haven't seen anything but campfire RP from the few members I've run into.
They're around... here and there, usually RP'ing away from the general populace. If you're hoping for something resembling circa 2015 RP... ehh, not gonna happen.Forgotten-Six wrote:Where are all the RPers at?
But if you dig deep, and perhaps look towards some of the guilds, you're more likely to find some interesting characters to meet. The vast majority of "RP" you'll find out and about will likely be very grind-centric in nature(aka... your aptly stated "packs of murder hobos", lol). 
We're smarter than that these days 
The daily grind. Thank you for the daily dose of depression. I'll go stand next to the water cooler and contemplate my life.Steve wrote:You can chalk a lot of it up to either cliques or fatigue, if you’d ask me.
There are few stable factions that have noth8ng to win against an opposition, be it PC or NPC. The “living world” isn’t really living much, and after 5–10 years of seeing Maltz with his same bald head in his same work clothes asking for the same package every week...a normal human being starts to break orbit and look away from BGTSCC for anything more gripping in terms of landscape (and interactivity).
The “end game” formula is also broke. One can reach Level 30 without any major hoops to jump or even RP to get there...and then what? You attain a near “immortal” character that has nothing really to do: evil never stays dead, and good keeps the light perpetually on, chaos spawns with regularity and lawfulness is just a rarely updated, weathered sign post guarded by a faceless soldier on a cold, southern end of a bridge drenched in far too much rain for gnomes to NOT have invented umbrellas (yet).
OOC grudges are unfortunately more powerful than a +5 vorpal Sword. Real change is near impossible to manifest, and the basic fact is there just aren’t enough Staff to adequately and happily take up player requests.
The Server could benefit from more Players creating Characters FOR a storyline or a Campaign, then what is the norm: creating a Character for themselves and bending storylines to fit themselves.
And then, of course, there is the additional fact that Players grow up, get a better job, family, a real life, and the game becomes more a nostalgic and/or relaxing pastime in which they have only a few hours a week—not much for the daily invested of life=gaming, so many Characters are easily forgotten or dismissed or simply exist ONLY to raid a cave for loot before hubby puts that roast on the table, you’ve slammed a few wines and now after reading your kids to bed, you’re a blob of tiredness who can’t seem to choose which of the 17 characters in the Vault to log on with, so you instead click End Game.
Cheer up buddy ::gives Steve a bro hug::Steve wrote:The “end game” formula is also broke. One can reach Level 30 without any major hoops to jump or even RP to get there...and then what? You attain a near “immortal” character that has nothing really to do: evil never stays dead, and good keeps the light perpetually on, chaos spawns with regularity and lawfulness is just a rarely updated, weathered sign post guarded by a faceless soldier on a cold, southern end of a bridge drenched in far too much rain for gnomes to NOT have invented umbrellas (yet).
And then, of course, there is the additional fact that Players grow up, get a better job, family, a real life, and the game becomes more a nostalgic and/or relaxing pastime in which they have only a few hours a week—not much for the daily invested of life=gaming, so many Characters are easily forgotten or dismissed or simply exist ONLY to raid a cave for loot before hubby puts that roast on the table, you’ve slammed a few wines and now after reading your kids to bed, you’re a blob of tiredness who can’t seem to choose which of the 17 characters in the Vault to log on with, so you instead click End Game.
), but prioritisation of my work life over my gaming life means I'm pretty much a spectator these days.
I will also add, that the server extremely lacks evil character support. It is much harder to RP an evil toon itself for many reasons, and yet evil RP has no DM support now, sometimes even DM punishment instead. I have probably written about it before, but the most exciting thing at this server is IC conflicts, and lets be honest, without evil toons this server will soon turn into Sims-style benchwarming simulator with 1/2 statuses saying "Squire of the Silver Rose" and occasional Xvart grind runs.Steve wrote:You can chalk a lot of it up to either cliques or fatigue, if you’d ask me.
There are few stable factions that have noth8ng to win against an opposition, be it PC or NPC. The “living world” isn’t really living much, and after 5–10 years of seeing Maltz with his same bald head in his same work clothes asking for the same package every week...a normal human being starts to break orbit and look away from BGTSCC for anything more gripping in terms of landscape (and interactivity).
The “end game” formula is also broke. One can reach Level 30 without any major hoops to jump or even RP to get there...and then what? You attain a near “immortal” character that has nothing really to do: evil never stays dead, and good keeps the light perpetually on, chaos spawns with regularity and lawfulness is just a rarely updated, weathered sign post guarded by a faceless soldier on a cold, southern end of a bridge drenched in far too much rain for gnomes to NOT have invented umbrellas (yet).
OOC grudges are unfortunately more powerful than a +5 vorpal Sword. Real change is near impossible to manifest, and the basic fact is there just aren’t enough Staff to adequately and happily take up player requests.
The Server could benefit from more Players creating Characters FOR a storyline or a Campaign, then what is the norm: creating a Character for themselves and bending storylines to fit themselves.
And then, of course, there is the additional fact that Players grow up, get a better job, family, a real life, and the game becomes more a nostalgic and/or relaxing pastime in which they have only a few hours a week—not much for the daily invested of life=gaming, so many Characters are easily forgotten or dismissed or simply exist ONLY to raid a cave for loot before hubby puts that roast on the table, you’ve slammed a few wines and now after reading your kids to bed, you’re a blob of tiredness who can’t seem to choose which of the 17 characters in the Vault to log on with, so you instead click End Game.