Introduction
It doesn’t have to be just a game. In fact, it can be much more than a game. The world of Gielinor offers much more than just pointing and clicking if you know where to look. This virtual world of Gielinor can be real books, plays, pictures, even poetry. It does have those - because we are authors, thespians, artists, and poets. We put the ‘ RP ’ into ‘MMORPG'.
We conjure our prose together, our feet synchronize upon the polished stage, our hands paint scenes in cooperation, and our rhymes sooth in unison. All of us, playing our roles with pride and yet knowing not what the other will do. Suddenly now, we don’t even feel the weight of the costume we wear, for this is not just a play but also a game - and no one wants to lose...
Will you combine your imagination with ours and lose yourself in our mindscapes?
But WHAT is roleplay?
There is nothing quite like roleplay. Maybe one could strum up a confusing string of similes and metaphors to get the point across...and hey, I’ll try.
Roleplay within an MMO is the polyamoric shotgun marriage between a theatrical play with method actors inside a fully packed auditorium, a speed writing contest, and a several million paged choose-your-own-adventure book that you put your contest entries in but this book is really old and pages fall out a lot. The book also talks and likes to hit you.
If that makes sense to you, great! Doesn’t make sense to me. Maybe you should be my counselor if you do understand. But jokes aside? We write our roles and enact them through the guise of this game. Our avatars no longer strictly a conduit for a player, but believable characters akin to your favorite NPCs. Maybe in time, your favorite NPCs will be the characters you meet here .
Savior self.
It doesn’t have to be just a game. In fact, it can be much more than a game. The world of Gielinor offers much more than just pointing and clicking if you know where to look. This virtual world of Gielinor can be real books, plays, pictures, even poetry. It does have those - because we are authors, thespians, artists, and poets. We put the ‘ RP ’ into ‘MMORPG'.
We conjure our prose together, our feet synchronize upon the polished stage, our hands paint scenes in cooperation, and our rhymes sooth in unison. All of us, playing our roles with pride and yet knowing not what the other will do. Suddenly now, we don’t even feel the weight of the costume we wear, for this is not just a play but also a game - and no one wants to lose...
Will you combine your imagination with ours and lose yourself in our mindscapes?
But WHAT is roleplay?
There is nothing quite like roleplay. Maybe one could strum up a confusing string of similes and metaphors to get the point across...and hey, I’ll try.
Roleplay within an MMO is the polyamoric shotgun marriage between a theatrical play with method actors inside a fully packed auditorium, a speed writing contest, and a several million paged choose-your-own-adventure book that you put your contest entries in but this book is really old and pages fall out a lot. The book also talks and likes to hit you.
If that makes sense to you, great! Doesn’t make sense to me. Maybe you should be my counselor if you do understand. But jokes aside? We write our roles and enact them through the guise of this game. Our avatars no longer strictly a conduit for a player, but believable characters akin to your favorite NPCs. Maybe in time, your favorite NPCs will be the characters you meet here .
(We now have a Discord server! Leave a post on the thread and we'll get you in.)
Save yourself.
Savior self.
08-Apr-2015 19:53:18 - Last edited on 21-Nov-2016 02:48:44 by DMMetalaane