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Romance: Keeping the Flame Alive

In the spirit of full disclosure, I snagged this song idea from All Songs Considered. So you and your RP group have decided to run with a romance story. You’ve agreed to certain boundaries and you’re having a grand old time. What do you do next? You keep the story alive. Look, a story is [...]

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Romance: The First Rule

The first rule of Romantic RP: Talk it over with the other player. Let me perfectly honest here: You might think this RP idea is the best thing since D&D, but if the player of the character isn’t interested, you don’t force it. If they are interested, you need to do the following things: Set [...]

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RP Date Night

This week, we’re going to talk Romance and RP. To prime the topic, let’s have an open topic on romance: Have your characters had romances? Has your character been on a date in game? Do you fic it or do you rp the date? Fill us in!

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Themes Song Open Thread!

Go here. Listen to theme. Write 140 word story. Post it.

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Roles in RP

There may be dozens of roles in RP circles. I don’t just mean the classes or professions, but the roles characters play within their circles, cities, and culture. In other words, how do others see your character? We have the leader, the heavy, the advisor, the traitor… What other roles can you think of? What [...]

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Dirty Tricks

To get this picture, I played a dirty trick on Clem. As tricks go, it was pretty simple, but it was effective. Most of the good tricks, in my opinion, are simple. What are some of the really good tricks you have pulled off, or been victim of, in game?

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Recruiting

Wildfire Riders don’t recruit. While we do try and advertise for RP events and we try to pull people into RP, we do not go out of our way to look for RPers. I, personally, am of two minds. I personally think that RP guilds should advertise and work with all sorts to make events [...]

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The Drugs of Azeroth

Azeroth has a variety of alcohols, tobacco products, and it has coffee, but what about other, more illicit narcotics? In Dalaran we can see the washed up mage, a victim of Kungaloosh: Shattrath had it’s own down-on-their-luck NPCs, and let’s not forget the Blood Elves. I’d be remiss if I didn’t include herbalism and alchemy [...]

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Brain Dead

Come back tomorrow. We’ll talk about servers. Or add-ons. Or warming up to wow. Or something. Till then, tell us what you think of Disqus. Do we keep it or do we pitch it?

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Lay the Groundwork Now

In the next xpac, we’re headed towards not just towards Pandas, but an elevated level of conflict between the Alliance and the Horde. On a more depressing level, we also need to realize we are going to loose people as WoW hits 7 and other games launch. During these next few months, before we run [...]

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