I had rolled a character on an RP realm and talked to NPC’s in the starting area and just did my own thing. I felt sorta awkward, but was having fun and received a few responses from other players. Eventually someone told me about the RP channel. That helped.. I lurked there a bit, then made my entrance. This helped connect with other active RPers on the realm which led to roleplay events and meetups and eventually RP guild invitations.

We had tried to have a separate forum for the community (away from the official forums) and a wiki for guild story information, but even the RP community seemed divided on maintaining and utilizing those. However, they were good starting points for newer people to the realms.

Wrath has been pretty amazing for RP opportunities. I definitely feel like the quests in this expansion were put together with the metaplot in mind far more successfully than they did with the Burning Crusade. In BC, each zone had its own story, but they didn’t tie together very well once you leveled out of a zone.

Northrend, though, you have several different storylines (Arthas, the dragonflights, the Titans) that all weave around each other. There’s a little bit of something for everyone’s stories in each of those. Even leading up to the expansion, with the zombie attacks and the rumors of the Apothecaries being Up to No Good, there was plenty of RP fodder.

We used to have an events thread up on the Feathermoon forums, but unfortunately, we lost Aarnieu to the great Sisters of Elune exodus of… 2007? I still see Bricu’s Pub Crawl listed on there. Bricu stopped drinking, oh, two and a half years ago, or thereabouts. (Though the Boomsticks’ Pub Night is still going strong!) The Feathermoon Roleplay Alliance had a calendar going, too, but it’s pretty empty right now. I wonder if we should see about getting a new thread going on the realm forums and updating that calendar. Hrm. I think I have a project brewing.

Thanks to Anna I’ve started reading the Rider’s Wrathgate story line and look forward to reading more! RP on FM is definitely not dead and there are many of us I think who appreciate an atmosphere that is open to RP even if we don’t participate directly.

Lots of people support things from time to time, like Nox’s fire night.

But most of our RP is just done because people are there. Random conversation out of nowhere, just because you see something, or someone says something.

It’s fun stuff.

As for Feathermoon, I’ve yet to see any regular events. This is due in large part to my limited amount of playtime I have on the warlock (and with only one other semi-active member within my guild, the incentive is occasionally lacking too). However, the few times I -HAVE- RP’d on FM were due to my interactions with my demon or a non-combat pet that ultimately drew someone else in. Random, non-scripted RP is, in my opinion, always the best. You never know which way it’s going to go and it keeps you on your toes so your creative writing abilities can shine.