~100 Ways To Improve Rp!~

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100 Ways to Improve RP

 

Hello RP’ers of LotC! As of this Temp Map, I have to say, the quality of RP has blown away the standards Asulon held completely. Now, whether this be due to a new map with new possibilities, or simply leaving Asulon behind, I don’t know, but if we truly put our all in, we can keep this quality! Now, you may be asking, “If this is just because of the Temp Map, what happens after?”, or “If RP is already good right now, what is this guide about?”. Well, first things first, when we move on to 2.5, and later 3.0, there’s one major thing we need to keep in mind. This is an RP server. Simple as that. RP comes before productivity. Loot is not worth losing RP over, and if you play to win, please do us a favor and either learn from the others, or find a server that better suits your needs. If you are in it for the RP, to experience fun RP, and create and improve RP for others, then we have something for you today. One hundred suggestions to help you accomplish that. These will be broken up into sections based on different character archetypes and privileges, as well as a basic section if no specific niches fit you. Without further adieu, here she is:

 

How to Create RP as: A Regular Citizen

1) Travel!:
Even if your character is tied down to a particular town or nation, why not travel? It’s a fun way to experience what the server, and the players have to offer, and gives others an opportunity to experience your RP!

2) Break Something!:
An easy one to start off. Break something! A vase! A bone! Your weapon of choice! When something is broken, your character will, logically, seek out somebody to fix it, creating roleplay for you and whatever artisan you run across!

3) Story Time!:
Is your character a hardy soldier? Tell stories of your tours of battle! Playing a bard? Tell a story of that time an Orc almost bludgeoned you for singing A Ballad of Krug’s Downfalls for the fifth time! Playing a courier? Tell them about when you accidentally dropped a package and you could swear those coins were blue as the sky! Even if nothing happened to your character, throw around a myth or legend! Storytelling is always interesting, especially if you emote and accentuate while spinning the tale!

4) Make a Scene!:
Attention is good! When you grasp the attention of a whole area, and involve those around you, it creates a ripe environment for inviting others into your RP! Push around that guy who still owes you ten for that mug of ale! Air your dirty laundry, complain about your wife, if you’re playing a child, yell at your parents being so totally unfair and run off into the town to get some space. Anything that creates an open opportunity to roleplay!

5) Start a Collection!:
This might seem like a strange one, but, as people do in real life, characters can have collections! Now, obviously nobody is interested in “I collectz diemends, can I have sum?”. Maybe your character has a thing for old coins? Perhaps from Aegean Oren, or some such? Maybe he has a thing for old antique or rusty swords to mount above his fireplace. Anything odd or out of the way! Something to poke around for, ask your neighbors, your highers, your lowers, anyone!

6) Get Drunk!:
Admit it! Alcohol. Is. Fun. Getting drunk is a wonderful, and potentially hilarious way to create RP, as long as you know the line between humor, and trolling! Get wild! Limp around to the nearest pretty girl you see! Drink until the blacksmith guy looks like a pretty girl! Throw up on something! And once you’re done? Tell a story about it! (3)

7) Host a Party!:
Get social! Create an inviting atmosphere for roleplay! Now, there are many ways to go about this, and the best part is, it’s adaptable to your character! Is your character rich? Take the tab at the tavern and let the friendly townsfolk drink and sing to their hearts content! Engaged? Have a wedding for the ages! Have a skilled craftsman? Host a competition and have everyone roleplay out the craft in the making of the product!

8) Be Needy!:
Need something, that somebody can supply! Be a parched traveler! Be a hungry sailor who made it to shore a day after the tack ran out! Play a poor damsel who ripped her dress and needs a new one! Be a consumer! Buy what they are selling!

9) Be a Different Race!:
Now, this is not necessarily for everyone. If this idea doesn’t float your boat, that’s okay, but let me tell you, I’ve played several races in several nations, and each one has a little something different to offer! You don’t have to throw away your prized character for this, either! Just make another character, and experiment! There’s a welcoming unique environment for all races, and maybe you’ll find the one you’re in really isn’t your true place! You never know!

10) Train!:
Sometimes, simple is good. And simple things aren’t necessarily bad things, throw in a few good emotes, especially if another character is watching, or training with you, and you have yourself a unique and enjoyable experience! Nothing like getting back to the basics! So string your bows and take whetstone to blade, it’s time to beat wooden dummies to a pulp!

11) Everyday Home Tasks...?...!:
Sure, this doesn’t seem like the most fun idea, but it really adds to atmosphere, and can indeed, make things more fun, or at the least, interesting! Throw a log on the hearth, start boiling the soup! Hang your stockings by the chimney with care! Have a conversation all the while! It can add heaps of immersion!

12) Engage People in Conversation!:
Say howdy to the guy who runs your favorite in, or the old farmer as you pass by, make small talk, make big talk, make business talk, make casual talk, exchange stories, exchange recipes, tips, gossip, just talk! I’ve seen people in cities who simply walk around, pass someone, stare at them, and then walk away. Take initiative! Maybe you’ll make a new friend! Or enemy! Or Employer! Or employee! The community is at your disposal!

13) Do Something Wrong!:
It’s a known fact: Humans are imperfect. And, so are Elves. And Dwarves. And Orcs. We all make mistakes and we’re all flawed up the wazoo. Do something wrong! Miss the blade and slam the hammer right into your finger! Miss! Burn your food! Trip and eat dirt! A little whimsical failure adds to the fun of it! And this means in actual combat and scenarios as well, not just for fun.

14) Use an Accent!:
Many people already do this, but there’s always room for more! If you have a Dwarf, speak like a scotsman, speak like a drunk fool! Gods help you if your Orc doesn’t speak the blah. Give your human any accent! A southern accent, a French accent, an Irish accent! Add some flavor to your social endeavours!

15) Eat with Vivid Detail!:
Eating, like other forms of emoting, really reflects how the RP is going, and gives an immersive idea as to what is going on. If an Elf in conversation gives a simple little -Tree_Hugger bites passively at his bread, not taking his eyes off Flower_Picker-, it conveys a relaxed, friendly atmosphere. If a Dwarf emotes -Rock_Breaker gnaws at his meat, no silverware involved, before taking a swig from his mug-, it conveys a hardy, possibly exciting atmosphere of the conversation! Try nomming on something while you enjoy your character interactions!

16) Do an Odd Job!:
Walk around town asking for odd tasks that need accomplishing for a few extra coin! Be a town crier! Move boxes! Walk someones dog! All sorts of tasks are at the ready for an off-beat adventurer, ask around!

17) Make a Frienemy!:
Dinkleberg! Everybody has someone that aggravates them to the point of no tomorrow... that they... don’t hate? Rivalry is a good thing, and can lead to some... interesting correspondence. Take your neighbor for instance! Steal his pig! Have your son get his daughter pregnant! (Kidding... you knew that, right?), plant crabgrass on his lawn. But really, just... have an equal and opposite force in your life for fun, and you may find interesting RP, and a good OOC friend!

18) Find a Romantic Partner!:
Now, the biggest mistake you can make here is to think you need a love interest for your character. Yes, it enhances your characters RP and adds another relationship to build on, it is in no way pivotal to any characters roleplay to have a romantic interest, and if it is, abandon ship. On the flip side, romantic RP can be a wonderful way to further your characters story and legacy, so have all the babies!

19) Sell Something!:
Got a spare sword? Too many bottles of water? More leather armor than you need? Run around, spread word, sell it to a shopkeeper, sell it to a neighbor, a friend, a lord, a lady. Find someone to involve rather than just throwing it in a chest for eternity!

20) Pull a Prank!:
Knocketh, knocketh, scurry someone! Throw an egg at someone’s home! Flips the books in their shelves upside down, tear up their grass! Bother people! As long as it doesn’t go as far as to be considered villainy, anyone can be a bother! And pestering people can be as enjoyable as getting along with them!
 

How to Create RP as: A Villain

21) Stalk Someone!:
What better way to add interest and intrigue to your macabre hobbies than getting to know your prey, inside and out, before you literally get to know your prey’s insides. Stalk someone! All the cool kids do it! So get out there junior Knox Perfectionists! Stalk some victims!

22) Have a Vendetta!:
That foolish goodie-two shoes freed your slaves, gave to the poor, and stitched up your latest victim! Revenge is a dish best served cold! And who can be colder than you? You crooked, crooked soul. Follow that impudent bastard to the end of the map if you have to, he’s going down!

23) RP Stealing Random Items!:
When I roleplay my villain character Fifika, I don’t go right in and raid all the valuables. I go in and RP looking over the shelves, sweeping over for various random valuables that are not often represented by in-game items, vases, statuettes, wine, just miscellaneous things. Remember, villainy is meant to create RP for both you, and your victim. Try to make it interesting for all!

24) Con Someone!:
Another uncommon villainous practice! Sell that blue dye as a miracle cure! Sell that rusty old sword, hell, say it lights in magical blaze the second it meets flesh! Fool someone with your suave charisma and witty antics, and the resulting anger might just lead to even more interesting RP.

25) Choose a Sin!:
Take a look over the list of seven deadly sins to brush up on your villainy. Does your character represent one of these sins? Three of these sins? This sin? That sin? Every sin? It’s an interesting basis to go off of, and might help you find your villain niche more comfortably!

26) Give Guards a Run for Their Money!:
Guards need something to do! If, per say, you have actual guards and not NPC’s. (Don’t do!) Do something high profile! Or if that’s not your character’s thing, slip up! Get caught, and then when you have the proper attention, make a run for it! Give the guards something to do in their monotonous, hood-hating lives.

27) Let Someone Escape!:
Whether attempting to mug, murder, or maim someone, let them get away every so often! This not only provides much potential roleplay in the future, but reinforces the boundary between success and powergaming, which makes the game more enjoyable for you and all those you victimize.

28) Be Nervous!:
Play a nervous villain! Paranoid, calculating, jittery, a klutz. Not every man can spine the heinous acts he commits. They break you down after a while, and unlike many ‘cool’ villains would have you believe, it’s not often for the better. So be a mentally deteriorating freak like you never wanted to be!

29) Be a Cultist:
Where’s your god now? Well, decide where! And then? Kill for them! Worship some spirit of fire! Worship a twisted demonization of the aspects! Worship your horse! Whatever your wayward beliefs, get out there and spill blood in their name!

30) Bribe and Be Bribed!:
Nobody is perfect! Even more so true for politicians, so why is it many people RP black and white? This leader is saint-like, this one is evil. Where is the greedy corruption? The bribing? The betrayal? C’mon! Guards, you have families to feed! Take those bribes! Criminals, you have your pleasures to feed, bribe those officials!
 

How to Create RP as: An Inn/Barkeeper

31) Hire a Bard!:
Hire a bard, befriend a bard, buy an enslaved bard! Bards, minstrels, and songstresses, when RP’ed well can add oodles of fun RP to your watering hole, and give the creative minds of LotC something to think up and think of in their spare time! Non-Innkeeper Alternative: Be a Bard!

32) Host a Noteworthy Guest!:
Host a known noble, a known chef, known craftsman, a known writer, a known songwriter, a known anything. These characters can bring RP such as hopeful up-and-comers wishing to challenge and learn from them, and simply share in the ways of their beliefs.

33) Host a Feast!:
Stockpile the kegs, butcher the livestock, salt the meats, pick the fruits, and prepare for a boatload of guests! Using your advantageous social landmark, you can easily play host to a variety of events, and what better to encourage interaction than a feast?

34) RP Out Different Kinds of Alcohol!:
Ale! Wine! Whiskey! Vodka! Mead! There are all different types of alcohol for all different types of characters! With the plug-ins currently being developed, this might not be a simple suggestion much longer, but before then, get into it! I’ve seen more than a few places get this right, and it couldn’t hurt if you do either!

35) Make Trade Agreements!:
Make trade RP! Rather than starting a farm to supply your inn, why not find a farmer, and pay him, before turning for a profit? Find a company that roleplays brewing to supply your alcohol, and perhaps if they gain enough such inns, players will even look for the brand! It starts all kinds of business opportunities for yourself and others!

36) Open Hostel Rooms!:
Once you’ve lured in potential customers, you need to give the common man a reason to stay, and create more RP! Open cheap rooms for one night stays, and always have extra beds around for the sick and injured!

37) Hire Guards!:
Guards are rowdy, tough, often drunk, and take pleasure in acting out their bouncer duties! Whether you are plagued by thieves or just looking for another mug to fill, guards are bound to start something!

38) Build a Stage!:
If you can’t find entertainment for your establishment for the life of you, then it’s safe to hope entertainment comes to you, and when it does, you best be ready! A stage encourages all kinds of roleplay! Speeches, town criers, poets, bards, demonstrations of the latest new potion! Stages are a versatile setting for creating fun events!

39) Start Gossip!:
Innkeepers have a strange sort of social standing around towns and villages, and using that, will cause people to want to come back! You want your inn to be the place people come to RP, and to learn what is going on lately in the area. Keep in on the local scoop, and be sure to twist things towards the interesting for your loyal customers!

40) Hire Barmaids!:
Similar to the Guard idea, except bringing out a different side! Hire a flirt! Bring in profits! Have her spread gossip! Perhaps about your competition? Barmaids are just as easy to implement in social situations as the guards and the bards are, and it shouldn’t be difficult to find one either. Throw em’ at the bar, and let them go!
 

How to Create RP as: A Blacksmith

41) Make a Deal with a Mining Company!:
Rather than mining out your own ores, make a deal with a mine! Not only does it make more sense, it allows others a chance to RP, and improves efficiency, benefitting the LotC economy!

42) Make More Than Swords!:
Swords aren’t the only weapon in an adventurers repertoire, and after a while, they get kinda boring. From swords and axes you can RP boatloads of things! Daggers, maces, warhammers, halberds, spears! Get creative! If you’re an Orc, make crude weaponry! Swing around rocks in a fishnet! Or as an elf, carve intricate designs into your weapons!

43) Have Another Craft!:
Sure, Blacksmithing may be the most of your wealth, but try a side job that people can always rely on you for. Something not necessarily common. Perhaps your blacksmith always has some glass blown and ready, or maybe they import wood for carpenters. Anything you can think of that is interesting!

44) Put Time Into your Smithing!:
Let’s face it. Hard work like blacksmithing takes time and effort. One does not simply emote -Hard_Hammers makes a sword-. Now where’s the fun in that? Pump air into the forge! Heat it up! Smack it into shape! Heat it up again! Beat it some more! Cool it down! Form the hilt and weld the blade on! All kinds of things to be played out for a blacksmith!

45) Take Advantage of Events!:
See an angry mob of villagers on their way to fend off a bandit hoard? Offer them your wares! Tell em’ half off for this occasion only, and then charge full price! And for the blacksmith with more questionable honor and moral fiber, sell to both the villagers, and the bandits! A win-win. For you at least.

46) Promote Your Products!:
Hire a few men to duel with your swords in a public exhibition! Have them RP out the fight, and when it is over, you can leton something along the lines of “If you fancy the steel you see, come to Bleeblah’s Fine Weaponry in Mordor!” It provides an interesting spectacle, and draws people to your product.

47) Ask For Some Help Around The Forge!:
Pull an Alvor and ask someone off the streets to assist you in your forging RP! Obviously don’t drop them into the tasks of a master craftsman, but who knows! You could wrangle yourself a new customer, a new smithy boy, a new friend, or even just a small conversation and some good roleplay, for yourself and others.

48) Offer to Teach Smithy Boys!:
What better way to create RP, than by giving another player a way to create RP via RP? Teaching an apprentice is a great way to both increase productivity and profits, but make a friend as well, who can have a legitimate way to learn smithing in RP!

49) Hire Vendors!:
Hire a few merchants to travel to nearby towns and cities, and they can sell your wares, spreading your name to customers across the region! If your endeavours are truly lucky, perhaps you will open up a branch in another town, and turn your shop into a company.

50) Hire a Trainer!:
Hire someone, as a sort of gimmick, to give cheap weapon lessons to customers who purchase your weapons! Once again, RP. All kinds of roleplay is generated from simple things like this, and in combination, any number of these ten suggestions can really improve your blacksmithing RP!
 

How to Create RP as: A Child

51) Find Other Children!:
I’ve never enjoyed child RP more than when it was with another child RP’er. Almost all children have friends, and they’re a blast! Do something creative! Make sand castles, mud pies, explore for fantastical creatures of imagination! Child RP is always better with a friend!

52) Get Lost!:
Alright, this one requires a bit of restraint. You don’t need to disappear to a faraway land every few days to have fun child RP, but simply get lost in your own city, or perhaps in a busy market. Children are by nature easily confused, and frightened, thusly it could make for some fun RP for your parents, rescuers, and search team!

53) Learn Things!:
Of course, when we are born, we have no skills or abilities of use to us, so, why not get out there and try to learn something? No, this doesn’t mean you can become a master swordsman by age ten, but it is entirely possible to learn something simple, like an alphabet, or even how to read! Or about simple things, what words mean, who people are, what things are. Ask questions! Get immersed in your juvenile cluelessness!

54) Be Apprenticed!:
This is more so applicable to those in late childhood or teenage years, but if it fits your character, become apprenticed to someone! Or whatever the equivalent is, just try to get some early experience to leeway your character into whatever their long-term profession would be!

55) Have a Tantrum!:
What’s better than a way to positively flip out and have a perfect excuse? You’re a child! you don’t know better! Get angry! Don’t clean your room! Don’t eat your vegetables! Storm right off to that room of yours and pout all the while. It helps to give the parents a challenge. Nobody’s life is perfect, especially a child’s.

56) Get Into Trouble!:
Knock over a jar at a market stall as you pass by! Accidentally bump into a burly guard! Steal some bread for your poor parents! And then? Do whatever! Try to run! Try to hide! Try to fight! Key word being try. Children aren’t likely to outsmart, wit, or strength a grown adult, but if moral standards are still kicking around, there shouldn’t be too harsh a penalty for a child.

57) Have an Imaginary Friend!:
While I don’t expect you to RP and emote to a non-existent entity all the time, some children do have imaginary friends, and it’d be perfectly viable for your character to as well! Perhaps a heroic idol! Or a best friend, or even an enemy (though hopefully not in the creepy schizophrenic type of way.) Just something interesting and childish to try out when others are around to overhear!

58) Play with a Toy!:
Find something to amuse and entertain your character! A rattle! A toy sword! A doll! A manhole cover! Anything (No, not really) Having an item that you can fixate on can cause for some interesting events! Guard it aggressively! Ask other people to play with you using it! Do anything that involves an object of entertainment value!

59) Take a Trip with your Parents!:
If your characters parents are planning on taking a trip, whether for relaxation, business, or otherwise, opt to go with them! There’s plenty of RP to be brought about with travel. Especially for the first time!

60) Act Realistically:
It’s as simple as this: If you want your character to be strong: don’t play a child. If you want your character to be smart: don’t play a child. If you want your character to have an occupation: don’t be a child. There are certain realities that you have to deal with when playing a child, that if realized properly, enhance the experience greatly for all parties.
 

How to Create RP as: A Hunter/Warrior

61) Always have a Reason to Kill Something!:
If you’re a hunter, you kill for food, or pleasure. If you’re a warrior, you kill for your nation, or whatever sort of beliefs you follow. Even if you’re a psychopath, what was the trigger to your malicious instinct? Killing for no reason is kinda... pointless.

62) RP Out your Kills!:
This is generally applying to if you are around other people, so if you’re hunting alone out in the middle of nowhere, then this can be disregarded, however, if someone is around to see, or you are attacking someone themselves, RP it out! While there are some (few) situations in which PvP is preferable, it is more often than not in your best interest to RP out your kills! Besides peky hostile mobs... but that’s their fault.

63) Skin Some Things!:
This (hopefully...) only really applies to the hunters, but rather than just being like “COW. BAM. DEAD. LEATHER.”, RP out the process of skinning the animal, or if you plan to cultivate meat from it, preparing the cuts. Now, this can be tedious, but even if you only do it once per hunt and follow up with a “Kills_Things repeats the same process, intricately collecting the valuable products of the animal.”

64) Make Some Fun RP During Sieges!:
As a warrior, it’s easy to be misled as to how siege battles really work. It doesn’t have to always be as simple as “Derp_Muscles gathers the men with a battering ram, crashing against the gates” Try something a bit more... interesting! “Short_Jack attempts to drive his axe through the window of the keep, in plans to hoist himself through.” or even use something like a catapult, because honestly, who likes cannons?

65) Set Traps!:
Whether hunting out in the harsh wilderness, or defending your vulnerable home from invaders, traps add a lot of intrigue to roleplay. Now, to avoid powergaming, do RP out the process of setting the traps, be sure your character realistically could know such techniques, and if you plan on bringing them into play with actual player, screenshots could be suggested as well.

66) Hunt Down a Legendary Creature!:
Strike up the band of hunter-friends, get out there, and search for that rare blue lion the minstrel spoke of. Were you drunk? Perhaps a bit, but if you get that hide, you’ll be a rich man for certain! Unicorns! Chimera! Get out there and hunt nonsense beasts!

67) Hunt Where it Makes Sense!:
Hunting for cow? Hopefully not in the desert. Hunting for pig? Hopefully not in the ocean. Fishing? Hopefully not on a mountaintop. Hunt where it makes sense! Or perhaps even if it doesn’t, bend it to your favor! Looking for cow, but out on the cold tundra? Hunt down a caribou, or elk. Searching for a pig, but out in the deep forest? Hunt wild boars!

68) Travel from Camp to Camp!:
Whether the camps be war camps, or hunter’s camps, you can’t walk forever with all that equipment. Stop at a camp, inn, or town on the side of the road! If all goes well, maybe another traveler will stop by and exchange words or stories by the fire.

69) Keep your Weapons Spiffy!:
Visit a blacksmith! Use a whetstone! Restring your bow! replace your spear tip! Do anything you can to keep your weapon in shape, preferably utilising other players’ RP in the process! Visit a fletcher or a blacksmith! Try to get the RP a’-flowin’.

70) Sell to Wherever Makes Sense!:
Help keep the merchants and workers in a job! Sell the hides and raw meats of animals you hunt! Pawn off the spoils of war you collect of your battles! Traders get a fair bit of RP and don’t have to go through the tedious and often nonsensical practice of being both the supplier, refiner, and salesman.
 

How to Create RP as: ~Your Race~

 

~Elves~

71) Climb a Tree!:
RP out climbing a tree! In a jungle, in a true elven forest, on a random mountain, anywhere! None can climb quite like the Elf! In fact, the Dwarves and Orcs shouldn’t be able to at all! Challenge other Elves to race up a tree! Challenge other races to try and make it up to you. Sit there and get a lay of the land, all from up high! Plenty of opportunities!

72) Play an Elitist!:
Elves are the most prone and well known race to elitism. Generally present in the Dark and High Elves more commonly than their forest brethren, Elven elitism is an interesting sub-element to RP, and even a driving element to some others, such as those of Haelun’or. The roleplay isn’t for everyone, but if played correctly, it really does add a lot to the table.

73) Speak Elvish!:
The Elven language, known as Elvish, is a curious and well thought out system of language, offering a good sized spectrum of words and phrases fleshed out in the lore so far, and often used in areas such as Malinor and Haelun’or. Find someone to teach your character Elvish if they wouldn’t already know in RP, and try using it! It’s a very fun process.

74) Build with Elven Style!:
Graceful tree homes, winding caves, and grand towers are among the distinctive architectural achievements of the Elves, causing their cities to truly stand out among the wondrous landscapes they rest upon. Try building, or living in, an elven home! The feel of it is often truly extraordinary.
 

~Humans~

75) Play a Peasant!:
you don’t all have to play nobles or knights, you know! What would a leader be without his people? An army without that which it fights for? Play a farmer! A blacksmith! An innkeep! A maid! There are plenty of opportunities in Human cities for all manner of civilian RP, so give it a try!

76) Get Into Your Subrace!:
The Northerners and Southrons have two drastically different forms of accent, appearance, and cultural backgrounds, and although living in a unified culture for so long may have diminished the diversity a bit, it is still worthwhile to acknowledge even the minor differences! Southrons, with their tinted skin, northerners, with their hardy accents, and all middle ground in between!

77) Create a Unique Culture!:
With humanity being as diverse as it is, there is ample room to introduce a culture all your own! No, this doesn’t mean you need your own town and nobility. For instance, my character Fifika is based off a cross-breed of Romani and Jamaican culture, creating an interesting amalgamation of cultural aspects.

78) Watch the Politics!:
Do what people... actually did back then! Cheer at executions, and at the tourneys of your favorite knights! Watch the public courts, and give your plebeian opinions on it! Watch the princes in their dressy clothes play King for a while, pick a side. Do anything!
 

~Dwarves~

79) Smith as Only a Dwarf Can!:
Spend a day crafting a sword! Masterfully smith swords of all the metals and anything else you can shove in that axe-blade, sword-blade, blade-blade. Just be sure to take your time RP’ing it out over a day or two, in separate sessions of smithing, and if possible, involve others!

80) Take Advantage of Your Mining Prowess!:
Dig sprawling mines! (With supports and proper architecture) Grand halls! Great underground homes, combinations between the two! If you know your subterranean do’s and don’ts, show us what you’re made of!

81) Take Your Size into Account!:
Many times will I see Dwarves acting simply like... Irishmen, or Scotsmen, without much taking into account a crucial characteristic. They’re short! Dwarves are rarely more than four feet tall, so roll with it! Make ladders for those hard to reach shelves! Have a stool for your anvil! Reach up when you strike an axe into the helm of the enemy!

82) Follow the Dwarven Religion!:
While I’m not privy to all the details, I am aware that the Dwarves have set up an intricate system of mythology, folklore, and superstition, that really locks together well with the culture already set in place. There are some threads and characters that can detail this more, but if you’re a Dwarf, it really is worth a try.
 

~Orcs~

83) Use a Weapon Truly Only an Orc Could!:
There are many creative ideas for Orcish weapons that have occurred to me over time, generally slow, hard-hitting weapons that really put brute force across. A few examples are: a sort of fish net, with various large rocks tucked in it, swung around like a ball and chain, a mid-sized (three-four foot) anchor attached to a chain, with a similar effect in combat, or perhaps simply crude, large weapons. A lot of ways to go for this one!

84) Don’t be Whitewash!:
This one is really simple. While this could’ve been said for the High Elves as well, that’s slightly excusable because... well... being a Whitewash Elf was acceptable at one point. But being a Whitewash Orc was never cool... don’t do it... peace.

85) Follow Orcish Culture!:
Reel in your victories! Believe in crude witch doctors! Speak the blah (heavens forbid you don’t) and paint your face with the remains of your victims! I’m going to have to say it, the Orcs have the most unique culture in the lore, and with how few there are at the moment, wasting an opportunity to roleplay that culture is foolishness!

86) Try a Goblin!:
Goblins are a curious subrace, but please, please, please, play it right. They’re not two feet tall imps. They are lanky, average sized, cunning creatures. This doesn’t mean they are geniuses, either. They are witty, and well-versed in traps, tricks, and the like, but they are not automatically smarter than all the other races. Just devilishly troublesome! In the fun way!
 

~Kharajyr~

87) Become a Follower of Metztli!:
Metztli being the Daemon of the moon and the Goddess to the Kharajyr. Gather in temples to give praise to her, and to thank her. Perhaps even offer sacrifices atop the temple steps if you so desire, whether it be anything from a pile of crops, to a human heart! The Goddess is sure to be thankful in return.

88) Enjoy the Subraces!:
From the jet black sleek Pantera to the thuggish Tigrasi warriors, all Kharajyr subraces are unique in their own special ways. Will you play a swift predator of the night, or a lumbering giant that'll destroy everything in his path! Perhaps you will follow the more peaceful route of the quite Cheetrah, or the hardworking Leparada, the choice is yours.

89) Learn the Ancient Tounge of Metztli!:
There's nothing more fun than watching other races stare in awe as you communicate to your fellow Kha' in the ancient and very religious language of these proud people. Will you use it against your foes? To communicate to only the ears of a Kha'? Or will you speak the words before Metztli, to further your religious indulgence.

90) Practice Kharajyr Architecture!:
Much like the Aztecs and the Mayans, the Kharajyr build great stone temples and palaces all in the name of their Goddess and their emperor. Do you feel up to the challange to become a royal builder for your people? To have your great designs built throughout the Kharajyr homeland? The possible variations are limitless!
 

How to Create RP as: A Noble

91) Command your Armies!:
Whether directly, or indirectly, it is a lot of fun to command your army, and it helps promote the RP of the soldiers! Get out there on the front lines! Hide in the center with guards flanking you on all sides! Hide in a tower shooting arrows! Any positions where you can help fight, or at the least, get involved!

92) Work to Keep your Populace Happy!:
Fund a feast! Hire a circus! Allow your favorite court jester to get out there and the town square and entertain your townsfolk! Perhaps even implement political tactics, such as using the opportunity to poke jests at your political enemies, or even the nation’s enemies!

93) Perform a Speech!:
I, Lord Hardybutt, first of his name, and Lord of- nope, stop. Your title isn’t a speech. Whether ad-libbed or pre-planned completely, get out there and give a speech! Encourage your people! Give them a call to arms! Announce an event! Simply update the public on the state of affairs! Any speech gives an opportunity for RP from the listeners!

94) Deal with Problems!:
Food supply low? Commission workers to build farms! Crime high? Higher guards for the city. Raids becoming a problem? Build a wall! There are many orders to be ordered for those in touch with the misfortune their people face! So get satisfying!

95) Focus on RP over Victory:
If you’re so blinded by your need to win, that you can’t see that this is a game, and that your influence could make it a more enjoyable experience for the players, then you should probably step down, or just up and leave. This is a roleplay server. Not a PvP with lore. And it never will be. There are plenty of other communities looking for you, winners, but not us. We’re losers

96) Roleplay with your People!:
This one really should be a given, but I’ve seen far too many leaders, more often in Asulon, who simply run things from behind the show. Forum PM’s, Teamspeak, or Skype, and not spending much to any time in game, experiencing the actual roleplay! If you can’t find the time, at least step down, or write up some Forum Roleplay to stay in tune with your players. elsewise you’ll find a dissatisfied, unorganized group of bored roleplayers striding the empty streets of your town.

97) Keep RP Flowing!:
Give the players something to do! Preferably not just a warband, but perhaps create a goal of becoming a merchant town, and sponsoring businesses, or perhaps the goal of an intellectual haven, sponsoring libraries, and scientists. All kinds of different focuses you can have, besides war. There’s enough of that already.

98) Have a Council!:
Perhaps not necessarily people in power, but a board of advisors to live with you in your keep/palace/mud hut and help you to create a wider spectrum of RP enjoyable by all types! Perhaps it would consist of your military leader, a diplomat? Maybe just your favorite farmer, or some random man off the streets who looks like a smarty. A group to assist you in leading can’t hurt.

99) Be a Character!:
Your character doesn’t exist solely as a leader. Even rulers have lives. Sitting on a throne isn’t demanding pf 24/7 time, and you still get a chance to enjoy the game too! Don’t be just a figurehead! Give your character personality! Be a pompous arse! Be a friendly Haelphon! Be a drunk, nasty old geezer who hasn’t enjoyed his position for forty years. A character is a character, no matter the stance they’re in.
 

How to Create RP as: A Player

100) Epilogue~ Play for Fun!:
This is a video game. Welcome to a video game. LotC is a collective of the fantastical minds and imaginations of a plethora of players so large, it’s almost... amazing. Never before have I been a part of something so grand, something so enjoyable, a community such as this one, and I’ve enjoyed it every day I’ve logged on since I joined. That’s one thing we all need to do. One thing that we all can do. Have fun! this isn’t a competition! This isn’t a writing contest, and this isn’t a popularity contest. This isn’t an effort to see who can make it onto the staff, or who can left-click the fastest, this is a collaborative experience that was started, is run, is played, is worked on for hours on end. For. Fun. So have fun, player, and be sure to help others do the same.
 

~Notes~

A Big Thanks to:

-Wyvernos: Creative inspiration throughout

-Kyra: Assistance with the innkeeper section

-Benboboy: The entire Kha section, word for word. Never played one

-You: For (hopefully) taking the time to read through all of this! Good luck on your adventures, and have fun!
 

See ya!

[~≈Panda≈~ 290]

Panda approves this so very much and will use this as a reference when her noodles don't feel like crisping! By that she means her creative process does not allow her to think of any thing to do.

[Lirinya 2602]

May I suggest spoilers?

It looks good though.

[EboBren' 87]

This is great!

[marimbamonk 1498]

*walks forth, scanning through the guide for boogers.

"I sense no boogers here. You've done a good job, lad.

BoogerBuster approves."

[No_Mortale 54]

Suggestion. Change the font colour. That dark blue is terrible to read. Use a light blue, or some other colour. Otherwise its rather good

[Lynesse {Celia/Jazzy} 398]

Really good, Chris! It's just that dark blue is hard for me to read!

[ThanksChris 589]

Edited it for y'all! Hope white tickles your fancy, cause I'm going to sleep. Thanks for dealing with all the editing from me anyhow!

EDIT: Still have a few to fix, bare with me.

Alrighty. There you go.

[#Flexave 33]

Really well done! :3

[Wretched 2038]

An amazing guide. Glad I could help! :lol:

[Lawrna 440]

*highfives her Caecae*

Lelien and Acaele should totally get lost in the world together!

[Agent Miller 26]

Can we get a FM to pin this?

[Praetor 1548]

A very good guide with excellent tips!

[The Best Basileus 97]

Very nice guide! I'll be sure to keep all the applicable ones to my character in mind when roleplaying :)

[troopermatthew 66]

What a fantastic guide! I didn't even consider taking my height into role play as a Dwarf. That is a perfect way ti inject a bit of humour into a usually stern character as well as giving me reason to talk to peoples help in more mundane situations. Thanks.