Role Playing Characters

[Amenara]

I wouldn't necessarily equate venue RP with a fair estimate of how RP works tbh. This isn't disparaging on venues by any means, and of course everyone's entertainment is valid so long as it doesn't hurt other players, but the RP that tends to happen there, at least that I've seen, is really sporadic and constantly interrupted by other players talking OoC or emote spamming or just running around in general, even in the heavily RP focused venues I've been to.

Maybe I'm just spoiled coming from D&D and my current group that doesn't really focus on venues and instead does things similar to D&D (except without the dice and mechanics rules and focusing on rule of cool lol).

For example, one of my friends ran a plot a while back that at a major point in the plot focused heavily on our characters' deepest wishes and nightmares. It was super neat and felt almost like a tabletop roleplaying game, but in 14 lol.


Again, no shade being thrown at venues or people who enjoy them, it's just hard for me to see them as big RP centers when the extent of RP in a lot of them is a staff member occasionally saying something IC. Then again, I'm not really a bar/party scene kind of person so the appeal of a lot of these places is already lost on me haha

I agree with the idea that venue's aren't normally where you "RP" in the traditional sense. Most feel like just a place to hang out with friends or meet other people. Though I will say I have been to a few venues where there was a specific theme and it was encouraged that you RPed in relation to that theme and it was a blast. I have seen RP to the point where people go outside and have mock battles with each other using their abilities and emote chat which was entertaining. I also have a friend that was part of a Garlean RP group that would go around to different venues all dressed up and acting as you would expect Garleans to, down to treating each other with a military hierarchy which was really entertaining.

There really can be some good RP at venues if you are willing to work for it I guess.

[Zebraoracle]

I agree with the idea that venue's aren't normally where you "RP" in the traditional sense. Most feel like just a place to hang out with friends or meet other people. Though I will say I have been to a few venues where there was a specific theme and it was encouraged that you RPed in relation to that theme and it was a blast. I have seen RP to the point where people go outside and have mock battles with each other using their abilities and emote chat which was entertaining. I also have a friend that was part of a Garlean RP group that would go around to different venues all dressed up and acting as you would expect Garleans to, down to treating each other with a military hierarchy which was really entertaining.

There really can be some good RP at venues if you are willing to work for it I guess.

I don't disagree with that by any means, but the thing is like you said, most aren't that and would likely give someone an unfair idea of what RP is/how it works and such. Plus, I personally don't have the interest in hunting down the venues that do when I can just grab some friends and go RP wherever whenever. :P

[Amenara]

I don't disagree with that by any means, but the thing is like you said, most aren't that and would likely give someone an unfair idea of what RP is/how it works and such. Plus, I personally don't have the interest in hunting down the venues that do when I can just grab some friends and go RP wherever whenever. :P

I am with you on not wanting to hunt down places like that. I just got lucky a few times to be honest. If I am looking at PF to find somewhere to check out by myself I will try and stay away from the "standard" PF venues and go for the ones that look different in how they advertise their venue.