Archive For The “Tips and Tricks” Category

Survey Time!

By | April 9, 2013

We here at WTTRP like talking about RP. Whether it’s the background you create for a toon you will never RP, to the alts you make to kill off during a years-long-rp-event: We love talking about RP any which way. Today we’re opening the floor up for discussion. Some people have already answered these questions–we’ll [...]

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Just Do It: Step 3

By | April 25, 2012

Step Three of dealing with issues in WoW is implementing and assessing what you problem solved in step two. This is the part of the plan that has a tendency to fall through. It’s really easy to come up with a few plans that seem positively brilliant… But they fall short when we try to [...]

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Just Do It 2: Problem Solving the Hurdles

By | April 18, 2012

Two frequent commenters and contributors–Rhoelyn and Kyraine–brought up to common hurdles to RP in an MMO: Scheduling and Burnout. While solutions for these common complaints have already been discussed, it’s worth discussing them here to figure out how to Problem Solve after one Identifies a hurdle. Getting everyone together for an RP night isn’t easy. [...]

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Just Do It: Step 1, Hurdles

By | April 16, 2012

If you want to into RP, there comes a point where you just have to do it. I recognize it isn’t always easy, and there maybe a hurdle or fifty to overcome to get your head in the game, but the fact remains: To RP, one has to just do it. I have to be [...]

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Watch This Space

By | March 23, 2012

If you don’t care for and nurture your relationships, whatever those relationships may be, they end. This is a natural, normal process. Ending a relationship is not necessarily a final act. These ends could simply be transitional (from a dating couple to a married couple. From married couple to married with children) or they could [...]

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Lurch

By | November 3, 2011

On occasion, we encounter an character who is a bit of lurch. Someone like this guy: A character who is either stupid or willfully obtuse. Dealing with a lurch is no different than dealing with any other difficult character. Some might scream at a lurch, some may ignore a lurch while others just love their [...]

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Another Post, Another Rebuttal

By | October 12, 2011

I’m going to be honest: I don’t get people who feel the need to come after or condescend RPers. For the past two days, the Breakfast Topic at WoW Insider has attempted to start a conversation about RP: What we do, how we do it, what mechanics we follow and why we follow those and [...]

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First, Finest and Last: Zeve

By | October 4, 2011

  Zeve and Taeli are two of the newest RPers to join the WFR crew.  Zeve’s a pirate and he has still managed to stick it out with the likes of Bricu, Tarquin and Ulthanon.  He also hates dog jokesa Lidia Carraway had been his first and was the only one to surprise him. She [...]

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A Quickie

By | September 29, 2011

RP is dead. This is a refrain that has been going on since before the original Naxx dropped all those years ago, and it was a ridiculous refrain even then.  Just because you cannot find the RP doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.  To be fair, sometimes it may seem that there is a dearth of [...]

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First, Finest, Last: Shad

By | September 29, 2011

  This week, we get the real deal on Shad, the official midwife of Feathermoon. Celesse was his first. He never counted Eurydice, because no matter how she plead, promised, or punished, he always refused her that final step. No, it was the woman he chose to be his wife with whom he finally joined [...]

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