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Teridax
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Teridax

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This section of the forums is meant to facilitate in-game roleplay, though much to my dismay/shock these RP clans don't actually RP in game at all, and do it only in discord servers.

Why leave your threads up here if a majority (if not all of you) do not roleplay in the game of RuneScape? Doesn't it just seem, kinda pointless? W42 has fallen a long way down from its hayday in 2012.

Prove me if I'm wrong but at this point in game roleplay is officially dead and this section of the forums should honestly just be removed. It's not serving any different purpose to that of the discord servers many of you already rp in and use.

Rest In Peace world 42 you used to be great and make logging in to RuneScape a treat. Now you only rp in discord.

19-May-2022 14:43:29

Wizard Ovi
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in the end of things, 42 may not be as big as it once was, but neither is the rest of the game in my opinion. There is people roleplaying in game, you just need to talk to people to find out where and when it is.
"You never know what kind of man you'll be until the end."

-Howl Aren

19-May-2022 22:46:49

Aurelia I
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Teridax said :
If there's still RP going on in game I would be delightfully surprised, and yeah it's not helping that RS3 in general has a low count of players. I would love to encounter these people!

We usually organize meet-ups on discord then log in game to roleplay. It's a bit quicker and slightly more efficient than posting events on the threads like we once did. In game roleplay still exists, it's just not as popular as it once was. All that for a pile of bricks.

20-May-2022 05:36:54

Teridax
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Imo any "discord only" RP clans that do NOT offer in game RP should be relocated to forum-based RP. It's deceptive and wrong for these users to continue to update their threads while not roleplaying in game.

Rp in discord set in RuneScape but not in game should not be allowed to be passed as in game RP. there needs to be a community manager to check the validity of in game RP threads and if they don't offer in game RP they should be locked or relocated to forum based rp.

10-Jun-2022 04:06:52

DMMetalaane

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You're not wrong in your sentiment, Sam, however you should understand that current practices evolved out from the in-game scene. And why? Due in part to the RP support for the game being virtually non-existent for its whole life. When people went to other games with longer character limits for messages and other amenities, they came to appreciate such things, even come to prefer them. But we still have a special fondness for the Runiverse in our hearts and this forum is representative of our legacy. Save yourself.
Savior self.

04-Jul-2022 15:10:02

PL Kawaler S

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I will be creating a roleplaying "clan" on OSRS inevitably. There're two role-playing worlds there now. One is A U.S.A. and the other is the legacy of 42.

"Roleplaying" and not "Role-Playing" because I hope to keep virtue a nobility. I won't be the Kinshra Knight I had been from RuneScape 3, though. I came to OSRS to test it as a feat (I was one on w42) aside from having achieved Ranged as my first 99 of Accomplishment. It returned to me, to roleplay as the Kinshra as I got closer to my closure called life.

I think I can comprehend how to be in general, and away from my Field Major. My frontier is over with having gotten Jagex to lock my former account, because I specifically told them I need to do RS without a magic(k) level acclimated. I had succeeded in getting the Quest Hood|Cape of Accomplishment, you see. And before Prayer I attained 99 Attack on the multiple experience PvP DEADMAN world 345 without a magic(k) level.
Heh, I even got images of me slaying 7 commoners in about 9-13 pictures as a Kinshra in the wilderness; solo .

I'll make a topic when ready, but for RuneScape's Old School game.
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Whilst playing OSRS I learned to play without magic(k) accumulation, so quit at 99 Thieving. Restituting getting 99 Ranged on RS3 now.

05-Jul-2022 04:18:57 - Last edited on 05-Jul-2022 04:22:57 by PL Kawaler S

Teridax
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PL Kawaler S said :
I will be creating a roleplaying "clan" on OSRS inevitably. There're two role-playing worlds there now. One is A U.S.A. and the other is the legacy of 42.

"Roleplaying" and not "Role-Playing" because I hope to keep virtue a nobility. I won't be the Kinshra Knight I had been from RuneScape 3, though. I came to OSRS to test it as a feat (I was one on w42) aside from having achieved Ranged as my first 99 of Accomplishment. It returned to me, to roleplay as the Kinshra as I got closer to my closure called life.

I think I can comprehend how to be in general, and away from my Field Major. My frontier is over with having gotten Jagex to lock my former account, because I specifically told them I need to do RS without a magic(k) level acclimated. I had succeeded in getting the Quest Hood|Cape of Accomplishment, you see. And before Prayer I attained 99 Attack on the multiple experience PvP DEADMAN world 345 without a magic(k) level.
Heh, I even got images of me slaying 7 commoners in about 9-13 pictures as a Kinshra in the wilderness; solo .

I'll make a topic when ready, but for RuneScape's Old School game.

Haha, nice read! I hope your OSRS roleplay clan does well and gains popularity. I miss when people stopped to smell the flowers instead of running around in graceful doing max efficiency activities they don't really care about.

05-Jul-2022 15:15:09

Teridax
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DMMetalaane said :
You're not wrong in your sentiment, Sam, however you should understand that current practices evolved out from the in-game scene. And why? Due in part to the RP support for the game being virtually non-existent for its whole life. When people went to other games with longer character limits for messages and other amenities, they came to appreciate such things, even come to prefer them. But we still have a special fondness for the Runiverse in our hearts and this forum is representative of our legacy.

Well put but I'm gonna have to put you in check about the part where to say "RP support for the game being non-existent) this is simply untrue, RS has plenty of cosmetics and graphics and animations and the mmo scene that's absolutely perfect for creating RP (it's just that no one wants to actually put effort into it, they would rather go text-based in discord which is basically forum rp in the modern age)

RuneScape is an absolutely perfect game to RP in, even if it seems like there is "no support" for RP content, and to a degree you may be right but overall it's nothing that should prevent our communities from acting in game.

05-Jul-2022 15:18:41

RiDaku
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Teridax said :
RS has plenty of cosmetics and graphics and animations and the mmo scene that's absolutely perfect for creating RP

RuneScape is an absolutely perfect game to RP in

Being that I still roleplay in-game and push for it as often as I can, let me shoot my favorite activity in the face real quick and say that Runescape is absolutely abysmal for group roleplay activities. It's fine solo because you don't need to be typing and can just imagine it all in your head, but Runescape's text chat limitations lead to some of the most awkward and uninviting styles of roleplay. For the rest of this post I will type as if I'm in game.

So it's not just a lack of flexible text chat, but -
- also it's a problem with the game's features -
- that turn people away. Our examine cards are-
- barebones and offer very little creativity aside from the-
- examine text, whereas other games like WoW or FFXIV-
- have mods and plugins for roleplay that would make-
- your head spin. Not just paragraphs, but image embed-
-ing and hyperlinks and bbcoding and /no absurd-
-censor that turns your text to asterisks if you so much-
-as put a period in the wrong place/. Additionally there-
-is usually some line of contact to the game developers in-
-WoW and FFXIV that offer real tangible support to their-
-creative playerbase, whereas in runescape the best we-
-get is crying on reddit because even twitter is just-
-a place to get told misinformation by a clueless-
-"Helper" who doesn't work at the company. Not to-
-mention that we also have to fight to get things added-
-in because 'dev time' is always so valued yet wasted at-
-the office. The login message on W42 is over ten years-
-old and it was the last bit of 'support' that we got. The-
-cosmetic avenue, by the way, is equally dreadful be-
-cause of every outfit having their own interpretation-
-of what red (or 'pink' usually) looks like, and both-
-white and black being cream and dark gray.

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05-Jul-2022 16:31:05

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