Integrating PVP and RP has been my weakest link in game. I ran a story once that was supposed to end with a little PvP–just to incorporate more people in the event–and it went poorly. Since then, PvP and RP have been taboo for me (and a few others).

With 3.0, I have become more interested in PvP, and I’ve even purchased PvP gear. Even with this increased exposure, I’ve only come to one conclusion about PvP in RP:

1) Plan for the Result of the PVP
If the result of the PvP action is going to be pivotal to the story, then as the Storyteller (GM), be comfortable with the outcome of the story. One cannot assume that the outcome of PvP will go the way the script demands.

With that, I have to ask: How to integrate PVP into RP?

Does anyone really care about the story behind the game? No. Better yet, we don’t care about your story either. What we really care about is the size of our E-Peen. World of Warcraft is our current pixelated place, but one day we will tire of these servers and move on to the Next Cool Game and continue to pwn all those who stand in our way.

I say we, but in reality, all of us at WTT:RP need to acknowledge the most hard core PvE and PvPer in the history of MMOs. Fells. She is so hard core at pwning pixels that she is too busy to post. But when she posts, the universe will quake at her eliteness.

This is the first of many Tips of the Hat to a hard core player: Fellsabucket, I salute you. We at WTT:RP would be purposeless without you.