Roleplaying business.

Its been a while since I dont see a good Roleplaying in MMOs. And it's kinda weird since these games are RP games. I kinda miss it to be honest... And i'm kinda using the word "kinda" a lot, right?

Let's talk about the RP in the game, a huge business that it seems to be somehow forgotten due Raid and End content stuff. For those who dont know what RP means, it's the abbreviation for "Role-Play" and its what this game its all about. Role play games are somehow old, with all that Dungeons and Dragons games, Dark world, and many others that I dont know of becuase Im perhaps too young to remember them.

The goal in the RP games is just enjoy your character as if she/he were yourself. You make him or her to come to life and interact with all the surroundings and other imaginary persons in the game what we call NPC (or Non player Characters)

Usually, Table RP games hve what we call a Director, Master or Story-teller that leads us into a world of magic and mysteries, and makes us confront some perils and issues that we may be able to win or maybe we are destined to fail horrible. (Which is not bad, you have to know when you can or you can't do something, and when you should or should not retreat.. it's called Wisdom sometimes) In Table RP games the Master or Story-tellers acts as your enemies, allies, critters and even weather or fate of the history but most of all, he acts a judge. Judge means someone TOTALLY neutral.

If you die a lot, its not because the Master hates you... all the time, it could be because you kicked the face of a sleeping dragon that somehow did not noticed you while you were robbing t his gold pile or something, or when you insult and push back hard the bad guy of the story while you are just a low lvl without training.

The good thing about this game is that you can actually do ANYTHING that you want, and that your character could do as well. For example: there's a locked strongbox in the floor, maded with a lovely elven wood and its seems to be a masterwork... you dont have the key - You can smash the strongbox into pieces in order to open it. If is not magically seal or protected, the strongbox will be smashed and forget about the key. get your loot and run fast.

In MMOs, you can't do everything, for example, you can't smash the strongbox, but theres a good chance that you can find a extra way to open it or something. But you can create your toon and act as if you were her/him to your convinience. RP gaves the game a different perception, since the End game is a something... easy to reach and unwanted somehow. When you are done with the End game content, you have barely thing to do rather than gather hoars of gold and nice items.

Then go RP for a while! live the Drama of Roleplaying and enjoy been your character for a while, it's not a hard thing to do, and its sometimes a great stuff. You can have a great time with you group of friends and even you can met many other good persons in your travels.

The game offers you a lot of things, from Emotes to fancy armor to wear and many outfits to use for fast change of looking, from Dungeons to do a some sort of action RP to a house, to celebrate your victories over the enemies armies. Mounts, titles, spells with great animations, professions that allow you to sell in a ingenious way your crafted items and many other things that I'm sure that I'm forgetting.

I have done some RP sometimes, and I have to say that most of my best moemtns in the game comes from those little RP adventures (Most of them in WoW, I haven't been so lucky in Lotro for far.. and I'm still looking for it)

Well, End of the post, I dont want to bore you all with this Topic, but if you want to take a good advice to avoid the horrible End game content fulfilled: Do RP with your friends, create your own character past, goals, likes, dislikes (And please, try to make them most real... Forget about the thing that you are a directly  Gandalf's apprentice or even the lost brother of Aragorn... or Faramir under disguise to learn about other cultures... Not even that you are a Valar who is disguise as mortal... Be "Real" and dont twist the Tolkien's work)

Good luck, try it eventually, and have fun! see you later!