The First RolePlaying Town In GuildWars

what would be the perfect town to start ?

i see more then 300 posts on the petition for roleplaying districs , i think meanwhile we could define a town to meet and roleplay , my sugestion is :

Temple Of The Ages , international 1

I agree. This will cause the devs to get angry at the improper districts, and eventually will force them to make rp districts.

There's already been a town selection. International 1 is the unofficial roleplaying district. Lion's Arch is generally very busy, sometimes with groups of up to 15 roleplayers.

None. What's the point in having a "role-playing town" since the entire game is role playing? You only come into town to get quests, missions, rewards, etc.

did you really made this question ... daahh

ok , the point is , since 95% of the players dont rp , ( couting you i guess )

we need a place to start rping without trolls

Is it me, or do good roleplayers avoid local chat? I spend most of my time in International districts, so I occasionally run into role-players. None of them ever mentions any name, place or activity pertaining to Tyria, all they're ever doing is discussing who knows who ("I don't believe I've ever met X..."), who is interested in who ("I believe Y has taken a liking to me..."), and how beautiful the other is ("I assure you, it is not flattery!"). It's soft-cybering that could've taken place in any world, fantasy or not.

Ofcourse people are free to do as they please, but if they do it in local, they're opening themselves up to mockery, especially if it's only this kind of in-character dating they're doing, and some of the RP'ing is so hilariously bad that it would really be better kept in private (so you're not shouting your private conversations all over town as automatically happens with local talk - that alone is bad role-playing right there). The best I've seen so far:

RP'er 1: "May I ask good sir, how old are you?"
RP'er 2: "I have seen twenty-four changes of the seasons"
Non-RP'er: "So you're six years old?"

95% don't role play, eh? Ok, all of you that think we need role playing towns, districts, what ever... need to just stop. These ideas aren't cool and they aren't necessary. Play the game like regular, some what normal people!

Role playing has a legitimate spot here, as in any game with some of the role playing aspects of GW. No, it's not an MMORPG or even a good old fashioned role playing game like Neverwinter Nights. Still, what is your objection to RP areas, JohnnyLange? If they are mainly confining themselves to one spot...meh.

I role play but NOT in GuildWars. It, to me anyhow, just doesn't lend itself very well to it. But I think it keeps game interest up for people who might otherwise leave after they finish PvE. (I might suspect that most RPers are PvE players....maybe? )

I need to start living in the International Districts, I always get a good laugh out of RPers.

This 95%er doesn't get it...

If International 1 is already the unofficial RP district - which i assume the 5% of GW's RPers already know about - why bother petitioning for an RP 'only' district when you've already got one?

I've never, ever seen actual RP in an online RPG. o_O I'll have to visit International sometime.

...I hope Silmor is exaggerating, but if not it'll be hella entertaining.

Silmor isn't exaggerating.

Normal people who look for runes to imbed in armor and give them greater strength? How does this qualify as normal.

Every person who plays this game even once puts themselves in an artificial world for different reasons and to varying degrees. Most people who play don't immerse themselves much further than the numbers involved.

Some of us, enough to justify a RP district according to the sticky, would like to see a zone where when somebody asks you where you're from the answer of Ashford is easily accepted.

RP doesn't mean talking like Don Quixote or a TV Evangelist, it simply means acting out your character's personality instead of just your character's stats and skills. It means generally avoiding (but of course, not completely refraining) from complaining about your little brother or talking about new movies that are coming out. It means that a discussion on skills and attributes leans more toward descriptions and less towards simply naming what you do and giving the numbers.

And it means (this is my favorite part) that it may be possible to have a discussion or say things in All Chat without getting drowned out amidst WTB WTS WTB WTS.

ok this is not a mmorpg , i dont want it to be a mmorpg , i dont care what you call it ... one thing i know , its possible to RP in guildwars , if people do it ! its simple ... but the game is full of childish teens , dont even know what RPing is ...

or dont care , or think its for nerds and girls ...

thats execly what i want

i want to filter all the chilldish teens out ...

i just want to play with girls and nerds ...

skip all the rest

If they make RP districts , pls make m as high as possible like district 100 orzo o.0
Since most of the time the low numbers are the places with most ppl
And although its fun to watch ppl make a fool of themselves (imo that is : )
I rather have them somewhere were there is less chance i meet them

agree , thats why we need RP dists , so only who wants to rp goes there ...

if there is a RP dists , you dont need them to be 100 , they will start at 1 , and only add more if it gets full ... as all the other kinds of dists ..

WOW! thats the best explination I heard so far. I'm not a RPer, nor do I laugh at or ruin other peoples RP experience. Do it however you would like, if it makes you happy and the game a bit more enjoyable, by all means continue. As a matter of fact if you do get an Official RP district I'll even shoot over and try my hand at it. Hey you got to start somewhere.

And for the rest of you dowing it, I have never done it, and really are not too intrested in it. But one day I will get board and will find a group to allow me to try my hand at this NEW IDEA. Basically what I'm saying is, dont say anything negititive until you try it. And if you dont like it, fine, shut up for the others that enjoy it. I may not like your hobbie, but I sure as heck aint going to say your dumb or immiture for doing it. We all like diffrent things and play diffrently.

So basically yes I see the need for a specific RP district, if only because someone is asking for it. COMMON A-net, LISTEN TO YOUR PEOPLE!

Have fun ya'll. I might be seeing some of you later in RP

lol So you're saying 95% of the people you see didn't roleplay to the part they are now? I don't think only 5% made it there just by being rushed This question is completly useless, this is a Role Playing Game (RPG), and it's all about roleplaying. The district you're thinking about is completly useless if you ask me.

And about the roleplayers avoiding local chat. Well, I also avoid it. Always when I try to make a team for a quest or something I end up with a noobish team anyway, I'd much rather start my own team. Maybe it's a little bit stupid to avoid local chat, but I'm avoiding it to avoid a sucky team causing me to do the quest again after a nice failure..

I did International 1 the other night. There was one french girl there...lol. I did my first two lvl 20's with nothing but henchmen...doing RP'ing... All three ascention missions with henchmen...

Of course, with the new builds, that's no longer possible and the game has forced the RP'ers to rely on other humans, most of which are yahoo kamikazi's who love to agro everything on the screen and then lead them all right back to you... hmmm... sorry... Just venting....

you guys dont know what we are talking about , rp as nothing to do with being rushed or not ...

please read all posts before posting !

I read 'em, but this idea that RPG's need to be one person pretending like they are something else is just a bit over-the-edge to me if not down right insane.

I don't dislike reality quite that much. I like fantasy but I'm still Chad and I'm still from Naples, Florida...lol...

But some of us want to immerse ourselves in the experience of being our characters - for a few hours a day I want to be Iceciro Avant, from Lion's Arch, master of freezing my enemies and hater of Ettins, instead of Chad, from Tennessee (Yeah, my name is Chad too, how wierd!!!)

It is amazing the amount of people who don't grasp what roleplaying is.

It is not a form of devil worship.

It is not a way of escaping reality because a person doesn't like reality.

If you go to the movies - you are escaping reality.

If you watch TV shows - you are escaping reality.

If you read books - you are escaping reality.

Roleplaying allows you to control the story... you become the hero or heroine in the movie, book or TV show ('cept it is in a game, or with a group using PnP).

I have roleplayed since 1975 and I never once would consider myself odd, a geek, or someone who hated reality.

Sorry to be an ass-hat but what excactly is the difference between normal playing and RPG playing? cause i might be interested lol

Roleplaying is pretending to be someone else. In Guildwars, whatever your avatar is. There is nothing weird about it. Lots of people like pretending to be someone else, sometimes.

Most Guild Wars players speak and act as if they are the humans at the other end of a computer network; not as if they are Krenda Sol, fiery mage of great power.

In short, DrSlugFly gave a really pretty good description and example:

When someone asks, "Where are you from?", the reasonable answer is, "Ashord" or "Green Hills", not "Florida" or "Boston". Boston doesn't exist when you are pretending to be from Green Hills.

Well, I'm new here, but I can tell you that I really enjoy Guild Wars.

Anyways, In response to some people saying RPer's aren't "Normal", honestly, who is normal? Aren't we all unique?

Most of us play video games to relieve stress or for something to do. I would just like to say there is no "normal' in definite terms.

So please, let people have their freedom, and lay off the conformity crap.

On the topic of an RP district, personally I think that idea is genius. Most people don't play RPG's like the name intends, they just play it as an "outsider". A district free of the "normal" people would be a blessing. But that's only my opinion

I play in the international districts all the time, only going into the local ones to buy runes+the other stuff from the special traders there. Why are there no rune traders in the international districts anyway? (not enough people there to buy the stuff at an overhiked price IMO)
Its not that I RP. I personally think its a tad silly. Do what you like though, you payed for the game and you don't annoy the piss out of me.
Unlike 'WTS blah blah blah, peice of garbage I found in the underworld but hopefully I can rip off some newb with it' being spammed in the regular chat channel. There is a trade channel! USE IT! (Do I sound annoyed? Its because I am)
So basically, I like the international districts for peace and quiet, henchmen are generally better than most 12-year old zit-faced losers anyway. I like the lack of lag there too. Doesn't take 30 seconds to load and its easier than moving round LA when over 1000 people are there. You can actually see the traders.

I would love to see a RP district. I think arenanet cares less and less about that aspect of the game unfortunately.

What would be even better is a few districts dedicated to morons.

You forgot one...

If you play a VIDEO GAME - you are escaping reality.

I'm not a RPer, but I can understand the idea. I can see the want for a place to do this, but realize that it will end up getting flooded with people trying to ruin it, since they will be able to easily find thier targets.

What benefit is having an RP district/town going to do? All it will be is just another area that Non-NPG'ers will come into. You have no way of keeping them out, so why bother trying to make things harder than have to be?

What will be good is if your a trader and spend most of your time as a trader then you become a trader no more fighting skills and have trader gear on that will put a stop to it
:P

I'm going to have to go into the international districts then and join the RP cause I LOVE RP and write RP all the time on forums.

This is a topic waiting to be closed due to unnecessary flames and hostility.

I don't see flames or hostility, it's not like it's getting out of hand. It's healthy arguement, where everyone is debating their point. Maybe the choice of words could be better, but it's not personal, at least it doesn't seem that way.

Johnny- I don't think the RPers are trying to keep other people out. Rather, they're trying to attract more publicity for what many people already do.

And I suspect some of them may feel a twinge of guilt about taking the International District- they want that to be for people genuinely trying to do international play.

I guess the best analogy I can come up with is this: suppose there was a segment of players (let's use the hypothetical 5%) that wanted to do Signet of Capture runs as their primary source of play- and they pretty much only wanted to do this with each other. (And outsiders didn't want to group with them. Which is true, if you've ever had someone drop on you after getting their skill captured.)

So in this situation, I don't think a "Capture Run District" would be particularly unreasonable- a nice way for people who want to play the game one way to get together, without having to infringe on anyone else who doesn't know what they're getting into.


If I see two people trying to have a conversation about Ascalon's pre-searing security policies, I'm likely to think good for them for doing their own thing. But there's lots of people who will say "OMGORZ PLAY THE GAME YOU NOOBS"

One thing that just came to mind...I think possibly it's better having International 1 as an unofficial RP district. An official district might well attract more trolls than RPers.

If you kids must have a official "Role Playing" town then why not just make it at your guild hall? (you do have one of those don't you?) At least you wouldn't have to worry about "non-role players" invading...

Unfortunately, a guild hall doesn't make a good RP "town" since only your guildies can come. What if you want to invite someone else or just meet some new people?

Example of roleplaying from another game, long and convoluted, as can be expected from diplomatic prattle, but take from it what you will (do note none of this was preplanned and was spur of the moment... just as the rest of this particular game was):



Start logging: 15.12.2003 21:05
You tell Isabeau 'Ah, Duchess Isabeau, I believe De... an avian of your Royal House informed you that I wished to speak with you?'

[51 Elf HER] [VALMIRAN Duchess(E)] ($) [Female] Isabeau Shrythara the Chosen of Compassion, Possessor of the Ancient Memory
Players matched: 1

[HP:689/689 MN:591/632 MV:402/402]
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| Int: 20(20) || Class: dark-knight Ethos: lawful |
| Wis: 20(20) || Race : human Align: evil |
| Dex: 20(20)^6 || Hp : 689/689 Exp : 19764/401796 |
| Con: 19(20) || Mana : 591/632 |
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| ARMOR || SAVES || Deity : Mhalador |
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| Pierce: -180 || Afflictive : -5 || Weight: 369/410 |
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| You are ready for a cabal promotion. |
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[HP:689/689 MN:591/632 MV:402/402]
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Llyorid is using:
<used as light> (Glowing) (Humming) a Translucent Combat Lantern
<worn on finger> (Glowing) a nice looking ring
<worn on finger> an onyx ring
<worn around neck> a dark black cloak
<worn around neck> a teeth necklace
<worn on head> a Consumed Helm
<worn on ear> the earrings of Solace
<worn on torso> (Glowing) (Humming) the Blackguard Fullplate of Miruvhor
<worn on arms> a pair of blackguard vambraces
<worn on legs> a beautiful set of blackguard greaves
<worn on feet> (Glowing) boots of protection
<worn about body> a silver scabbard
<worn about waist> a leather bandit belt
<worn around wrist> (Humming) a titanium bracer
<worn around wrist> (Humming) a titanium bracer
<wielded> (Glowing) the Solar Mace
<worn on face> (Glowing) a black veil
<floating nearby> (Glowing) a winged earth dragon


Isabeau tells you 'I seem to recall that yes.'

You tell Isabeau 'Aye. Is there somewhere I can meet you? Preferably less public than the central square of Val Miran?'
Isabeau tells you 'I can come anyplace you wish to nominate.'
Isabeau tells you 'Perhaps Aruncus?'
You tell Isabeau 'Aye. I shall be there soon then.'

[HP:689/689 MN:532/632 MV:291/402]
<14849gold 19764xnt 13hour 542gems> whe[KNIGHT] controlled. Players near you:
<PK> Llyorid The holy grove
Isabeau The holy grove


You bow deeply.
Isabeau nods.
Isabeau says 'How are you.'
You say 'Duchess Isabeau, a pleasure.'
Isabeau smiles happily.
You say 'Well enough... considering the circumstances.'

[HP:689/689 MN:545/632 MV:309/402]
<14849gold 19764xnt 14hour 542gems> [51 Elf HER] [VALMIRAN] ($) Isabeau Shrythara the Chosen of Compassion, Possessor of the Ancient Memory
Players matched: 1
There are 41 characters on, the most on since startup was 70.
The title of Master Questor of Aabahran is currently held by Athraeil.

You say 'I have come to discuss a few issues.'

Isabeau says 'Is Buttaugk a threat to you'
You say 'Nay.'
Isabeau nods.
You say 'Even if he was, I doubt he would attack me.'
You chuckle politely.
Isabeau says 'Go ahead.'
You say 'Aye. I believe you know the suspicions of the late Patriarch Namaste of Rheydin?'
Isabeau says 'Suspicions?'
Isabeau says 'You best repeat them.'

You say 'He was rather vocal of them and I heard them voiced while I was a Consort.'
You say 'Aye.'
You say 'He suspected, and I do as well, that the Band of Light that you had founded was more than it outwardsly seemed.'
You say 'Am I correct in this, Duchess?'

Isabeau frowns wonderingly.
Isabeau says 'Erm '
Isabeau says 'No, I dont think so.'
Isabeau says 'How does it appear outwardly.'

You say 'As simply a gathering of those who walk the Light to a common group.'
You say 'I imagine it has more martial import, though.'

Isabeau gives you Charter of the Band of Light by Scholar Livana Arianwen.
You nod.

Isabeau says 'That is what we are if you wish to read it.'

You say 'I heard of this being written. However... in any case, I am asking, has import on that, but only in passing.'
You say 'I believe you met the Demon Kefuquus, am I not right?'

Isabeau sits down and thinks deeply.
Isabeau says 'Ohh yes.'

You say 'I did as well. And it was a less than pleasant experience.'
Isabeau shudders at the horror and represses tears.
You grimace painfully at the thought.

Isabeau says 'Aye '
Isabeau sits down and rests.

You say 'In any case, if you have any belief that Miruvhor likes the demon any more than Val Miran does, let me dispel those now.'
You say 'The demon is unlike any that has come forth before.'
Isabeau nods.
You say 'He will not leave Miruvhor unscathed in his coming.'
You say 'I asked about the Band of Light...'
You say 'Because I wonder if the Band possesses any... weapons, or relics to fight demons of this sort?'
You say 'You can imagine, Miruvhor has none.'

Isabeau says 'Aye, we have two divisions within the band'
You nod.
Isabeau says 'We are one of faithfull and one of defenders.'
You nod.
Isabeau says 'But as to relics we have but ourselves and our faith '

Isabeau says 'We have however been told by Lord Luqin.'
Isabeau says 'That the only way to defeat the demon'
Isabeau says 'Will be if we can gather the entire world in common cause.'
Isabeau sighs.
Isabeau says 'This is most difficult as you can imagine '

Llyorid sighs and considering something for a moment.
Llyorid mutters something about implications.

Isabeau says 'As there are many many different ideals to mesh.'

Llyorid kneels before Isabeau and holds his sword up in his hands to Isabeau.
Isabeau says 'But I would welcome Miruvhor.'

You say 'I pledge upon myself, that I will join you if you are to defeat the demon.'
You say 'I cannot speak for Miruvhor in this, but I speak for myself.'

Isabeau says 'And I would wish we could find common ground even if only on this one issue.'
You nod.
Isabeau says 'Ahh you wish to see if we win first ?'
Isabeau smiles happily.

You say 'No.'
Llyorid stands straight.

You say 'I repay debts, and I owe one both to Kefuquus and Moleran.'
Llyorid narrows his eyes.


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If I could have even a fraction of a similar experience in Guild Wars, I would personally welcome it.

An RPG district is a catastrophe of non-RPG'ers coming to question everyone's sexuality just waiting to happen. I know I will, even though I'm myself guilty of enjoying a good roleplaying session now and again.

In essence, Guild Wars is hardly the most inviting game to roleplay in. Sure, it's a fantasy setting, but that doesn't make it an RPG. Cooperative fantasy action/adventure is what it should be called. Of course, the "RPG" appellation boosts sales. Might as well roleplay in Quake.

"Pray tell, good sir, dost thine rocket gibbeth the foul Knights of Infernus with zealous fastidiousness?"

Anyway, I'd suggest to keep roleplaying a thing for within a willing party and mostly outside of towns. For your own sake and enjoyment.

go home you closed minded person.

i don't role-play, i couldn't be bothered, but if people do want to role play, thats fine let them have there own districts.

in role play i gather its like you talk as though you aren't playing a game

Role Play Version
eg. "Hello, im looking for a sword, can i see your selection?"
"yes, here you go"

Normal Version
eg "<><><> SELLING SWORD FOR 40k!!!!!! BUY NOW VERY GOOD SWORD, YOU MUST HAVE THIS SWORD OTHERWISE YOU ARE NOOB!!!! <><><>"