Ive played mmos for a few years now and I know generally what roleplaying is, but ive never played D&D or roleplayed in a game before. Ive become interested and want to try it, but every time i approach an rp player about it they treat me like [censored] and have a real elitist attitude about them. Im sure not all rp players are like this just as in there are good and bad people in every aspect of life. I do start to wonder however since ive never met a person that was "nice" to me when i asked about rp. Im not asking for much, just someone to show me the basics. Please tell me if this is asking too much.

It's not asking for too much. It's not that all roleplayers are [censored]s, it's just that most people are. RP is very enjoyable once you really get into it, so I advise you to not give up.

As Djem said, it's not roleplayers that act like this, it's human beings. You'll meet some terrible ones and some very pleasant ones, the trick is the ignore and forget about the bad people and stay in contact with the pleasant people, keep asking around, and try not to take anyone's attitude to heart.

You're either an RP player or you're not, get outta here!

Joking, it svcks when you wanna get into something but every one you ask is an anus. If you want to you can ask here what you wanna know, lots of people on these boards are PRers and would be glad to help, myself included.

Approaching rpers is hard, My first approach was in warcraft 3 , There was a game called titan land. The way i approached them was becoming undead, so i did not have to talk alot and by time they started a war aganist me.

But what rpers generally fail is making strategy and army. They have sent me random combination of units and I made a combination myself where I put abominations on front line necromancers and meat cannons behind and they melted. With time i have gained respect from them by pwning them, and later on as i played i became good rper. Altough my bad english. Best way to approach rpers is by not rping. Like for WoW , You keep killing them and in time they beg for mercy and dont cross you

Well, it's just a fact of the internet, you'll always have a percentage of those people.

If you want to know about the basics of role playing it's just like creating a new persona, personally I can't play a game like Skyrim and not do this, without it the playthrough just crumbles apart. What I would suggest for you to do if you do want to do some role playing in a computer game is that you start off in a single player game and sort of run an inner monologue with conversations between NPC conversation - Skyrim's player dialogue was piss poor anyway. Also, I'd recommend watching some RP sessions on YouTube of games like D&D and Vampire, you can sort of end up applying that level of "acting" to yourself when you choose to engage in such an activity. Vampire: The Sabbat Warriors on YouTube was a pretty entertaining chronicle.

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I am actually also interested in RPing. Isn't it basically acting out as your char's personality and choices and backstory, etc.?

RP was always such a broad term. And with the explosion of RP inspired games into mainstream the concept of role Play lost meaning to me several years ago. Some groups I have played with actually stage Role Play events. An example of this is; One day I was asked to take off all my gear, dress in plain street clothes and go into a NPC prison cell. I was sgt in my guild and the RP scenario was to organize a unit to come rescue me. They also had to escort me out of the prison area and back to home turf when I had almost nothing gear wise except a spare rifle one of the guys gave me. That was fun enough but I really don't have much patience for stuff like that, and even less for hanging out in a bar making toasts and celebrating every wed night.

I saw someone using the term Lore Player a couple of years ago and I identified with that more than Role Player. Sure I used to play AD&D back in the day and I have belonged to some fairly deep RP guilds, but I base my gameplay around the Lore of the game I am playing. I embrace the ruleset that the developers created in the world they envisioned and I just try and stick with it, leaving the meta gaming and mathematics out of it as much as possible. For me that creates a nice environment that takes full advantage of all the good stuff devs put into the game. But at the same time it keeps me free of the outside influences that heavy rp guilds try and impose overtop of the games mechanics.

More like "going with the natural flow of the game rather than trying to define a whole new river in the midst of a sea of non believers" if that makes sense to anyone.

what i don't get is why some roleplayers can't stand rude characters. most seem to have attitude that it must be played in a certain way and the only way is their way. i say [censored] that. play the way you wan't but stay in character and act as your character would act. it doesn't need to be fancy faeries and kings and queens.

People can be jerks on the internet because the person is not standing in front of them ready to kick the [censored] out of them, or in other words they can get away with it. Anyone who acts like the OP says when approached about joining in on RP in a game are not worth your time to even attempt to RP with them so just move on and find someone who is willing to "let you in"...

If they were acting in-character when you approached, them, they were probably upset that you interrupted them, but even then they're precisely what you called them for treating you that way. I had a general idea of how to RP by watching people doing it in lotro, asked a group of people in the prancing pony how to do the /me or /rp command, and pretty much hopped into it since I had already observed enough. Feels like writing a book/dialogue to me, but I enjoyed it, and I occasionally RP.

i never do that kind of roleplay but if i do it's rather minimalistic. i say it doesn't have to be like that at all.