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DreamShipWrecked posted:Oh god the Power Rangers shtick is hilarious. I'm sure that quite a few of those RPers needed the advice too. I see to recall that some people got really upset over our ability to make our Megazords giant size at will any time we wanted through clever use of some really obscure item or something. Also every time I watch that video I notice I'm out of synch on that dance bit at the end (I was orange).
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DreamShipWrecked posted:Although it does make me laugh that there is a super-serious RP community in a superhero game. Is it basically Dead Parents Origin Story x4 every day? All I know is that if I had superpowers IRL I would be dancing around with couches anyways. "Now I dunno 'bout dead gods or that kinda stuff, I'm just a simple Orc farmer." "YES AND THAT IS WHY YOU, ALONG WITH EVERYONE ELSE, SHOULD KNEEL BEFORE ME! I AM THE MANIFESTATION OF A GOD!" "Look man I got a lot of pig poo poo to clean up so unless you wanna help me out and grab a shovel, y'all best get off my land."
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Captain McStabbin posted:Got links to any of these? Because they sound amazing. http://www.wowgoons.com/ Has some video links to some of these. Also the page itself has been trolling for years. Before I quit WoW for good (I hope) earlier this year, I would still get random groups that thought we paid for access. That site has been running for at least 6 years too. Thread in Wow subforum has a bit more as well. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573233
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The best part of the wowgoons.com website is that people actually petitioned it and a CSR responded basically telling people they were stupid.
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The White Dragon posted:My friend used to troll people by proxy on WoW, not like he was trying or anything but folks hated it. He legit wanted to RP as an Orc farmboy who just got pulled into a bunch of adventuring bullshit, so he played on a RP server because he was all about playing as this character. He would run into all these guys who were really into their "I'm actually a vampire princess" and "I'm the reincarnation of a dead god" poo poo and he would just stay in character the entire time. Actually I think I have done exactly the same thing. When I had a brief stint in a WoW RP server so I could join my Internet Friends'© guild, I RP'd as a Horde deserter that was kinda freaked out by all the flowery Alliance people since that was my first Alliance character. It made people act really weird because I didnt respond to their half-god dragons the way they expected.
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The White Dragon posted:My friend used to troll people by proxy on WoW, not like he was trying or anything but folks hated it. He legit wanted to RP as an Orc farmboy who just got pulled into a bunch of adventuring bullshit, so he played on a RP server because he was all about playing as this character. He would run into all these guys who were really into their "I'm actually a vampire princess" and "I'm the reincarnation of a dead god" poo poo and he would just stay in character the entire time. I love this and I wish that there was more of this kind of stuff.
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Their loss, role-playing is infinitely more fun playing as ordinary people thrust into extraordinary situations as opposed to playing superhero anime characters. In Enemy Territory, a WW2 shooter, sometimes me and a few friends would pretend we didn't speak English. We would play small 'clan wars' on public servers by pissing some clan of by killing them with 'easy' weapons. Of course we would exclusively use those weapons during the game. They wanted to show their imaginary superiority in aiming with SMGs and pistols and we would use rocket launchers and landmines. I was always surprised people kept raging at us instead of just leaving.
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wasn't there a superhero MMO where someone had some sort of bingo thing about what characters were? like 1000 year old catgirl demon vampires from another dimension or Half devil princes who could make slaves who were aptly named pornstars etc.
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Dizz posted:wasn't there a superhero MMO where someone had some sort of bingo thing about what characters were? like 1000 year old catgirl demon vampires from another dimension or Half devil princes who could make slaves who were aptly named pornstars etc. All of them, but more likely it is City of Heroes/Villains.
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Dizz posted:wasn't there a superhero MMO where someone had some sort of bingo thing about what characters were? like 1000 year old catgirl demon vampires from another dimension or Half devil princes who could make slaves who were aptly named pornstars etc. This? http://clubcapricebingo.tumblr.com/
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Namarrgon posted:Their loss, role-playing is infinitely more fun playing as ordinary people thrust into extraordinary situations as opposed to playing superhero anime characters. Man, I forgot how fun ET was. Every default map spare Rail Gun required at least one Engineer to win the map. Engies also had access to rifle grenades. Rifle grenades insta-killed any class regardless of health on bodily contact. They were as pinpoint accurate as the rifle they were shot out of, and (seeing as they were just grenades) they'd bounce around for a few seconds if they didn't initially hit an enemy. Great way to induce rage was to pull off a bankshot kill with "the noob tube", which was pathetically easy because so many maps (Gold Rush in particular) were full of hallways and roads with back walls to bank off of. Engies also had land mines, which if stepped upon would usually kill you...as soon as you stepped off of it. If you noticed the telltale sign in time and didn't take that fateful step off of it, you could stand on it forever. Only an engineer could defuse it, though, so you were usually dead long before help could arrive (assuming an engineer cared enough to come save you).
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MinistryofLard posted:Wait, so did the game automatically freeze you at the "HALT" or the hand gesture, or did they automatically just stop on reflex? the Wermacht weapons in Day of Defeat are way more fun than the American weapons  Also, I am in fact an edgy teen
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I was going to mention the bingo too, then suddenly  fire alarm everyone out of the building so very e;f,bWoW story: I played on Moonguard as a gnome tinkerer for a bit, and there was this Draenei shaman (why is it always the Draenei?) who would stand outside the cathedral, naked.  (Of course!)Anyways my gnome, being the friendly helpful sort, saw this poor naked Draenei outside. Can't have her catching the chill! So I'd go over, build a campfire at the Draenei's feet and cue paragraphs of pure sperg rage about how dare we make light of his character and ruin his roleplay etc etc. After that, every time I saw that Draenei, I'd go over and build a fire by him. He'd just log out silently and not come back the rest of the evening  Yeah, low-hanging fruit, but it still makes me smile.
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whatis posted:the Wermacht weapons in Day of Defeat are way more fun than the American weapons Hey now BAR is so much better than STG 44!
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50 Foot Ant posted:Edited out The response from Cryptic was eventually to weld all furniture to the floor, disabling everything but walking and talking in the club, and patching out super gigantism. Booo. Synthbuttrange fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Nov 16, 2013 |
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I was still a dirty RPist when the goons invaded Caprice, but I was already well on my way to joining the fold- I remember chasing around Negramancer with my terrible original Mewn, laughing at his name and all the chair tossing. Champs does have the distinction of making me disillusioned with RP and sending me to the goony embrace of SA! Nothing like getting death threats for having a differing opinion in CORP 
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Mewnie posted:I was still a dirty RPist when the goons invaded Caprice, but I was already well on my way to joining the fold- I remember chasing around Negramancer with my terrible original Mewn, laughing at his name and all the chair tossing. That's still the best thing. Every so often I log into CO and pop into CC to chill out and play some bingo. And rocking the Super Goons guild tag creates the most joyous dissonance.
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Oh yeah. I will go back in there once in a while to people watch, read terrible bios and awkward interactions between people who wouldn't know what real human interaction is  Then I cringe and remember that I was once one of them and believed the lie 
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One of my guildmates in WoW played the game normally but talked in character and third person (since he was a dumb orc). Just stuff like "T---- thinks we should wait for the healer to come back before pulling next time." We were not on an RP server. He got some rage for RPing too hard, some for not RPing too hard enough. Folks tend to be very picky about what they want from other people in their MMOs.
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People are so uptight about what happens to their character that there is basically an entire awkward roleplay syntax wherein everything you do to their character must be presented as "would" and "might" and you have to let them react accordingly if they approve. I understand that it does serve a purpose but it pretty much cements the fact that roleplay is 2% narrative, 40% My Vanity Character and 58% awkward excuses to have cybersex.
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I briefly went on an RP server back when I played Wow, but I think I was doing it wrong because I didn't make up any magical bullshit about why my level one elf dude was special. I just made a character and decided that he was setting out on a grand adventure because elf town was boring as poo poo. Now that I'm thinking about it, has anyone seen how an RP person reacts to applying any kind of rigor to their outrageous claims? It seems like one high-level dude with some PVP gear could pretty easily goad them into a duel and be like "you're pretty weak for a thousand year old demon" or whatever. Wow's free to play up to level 20 now, right? I kind of want to make a level 20 rogue and just assassinate the sexytime RPers in goldshire (I assume THAT hasn't change in 5 years).
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Artemis J Brassnuts posted:I briefly went on an RP server back when I played Wow, but I think I was doing it wrong because I didn't make up any magical bullshit about why my level one elf dude was special. I just made a character and decided that he was setting out on a grand adventure because elf town was boring as poo poo. In Star Trek Online, we once had an RPist who insisted he had never lost a ship and never left a crewman behind, typical youngest-and-brightest-admiral-in-Starfleet crap. As we burned his ship around him and used skills that slaughtered his 1200-man crew in seconds, we would taunt him. "Your crew, they're dying! Why aren't you ordering them to the escape pods? You monster!" Guy had a meltdown. That was his super special RP character that he had played for 2 years and never let his ship get blown up, usually by never doing any challenging content or PVPing outside of rigged RP-fights. It was unreal, you could taste the tears through the screen.
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Artemis J Brassnuts posted:I briefly went on an RP server back when I played Wow, but I think I was doing it wrong because I didn't make up any magical bullshit about why my level one elf dude was special. I just made a character and decided that he was setting out on a grand adventure because elf town was boring as poo poo. This is something that's really cool about Dungeons and Dragons 3.5E (or any pen and paper game) - if you make a level 1 character and level them all the way to 20 (at 20, Clerics are basically demigods, to give you a sense of scale), you have an actual narrative for how that character came to be what they are at 20.
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Magres posted:This is something that's really cool about Dungeons and Dragons 3.5E (or any pen and paper game) - if you make a level 1 character and level them all the way to 20 (at 20, Clerics are basically demigods, to give you a sense of scale), you have an actual narrative for how that character came to be what they are at 20. Yeah right. Level 1 of any PC class is already by design more powerful than a normal person, nothing stops them from already having a mysterious past or "top of their class in wizarding school" background. WoW's levelling system has never stopped a level 1 warlock who's severely challenged by a giant spider from claiming to be the next coming of Shiva while casting a tiny fireball at bats. E: In DnD 3/3.5 in particular the game EXPLICITLY sets up PCs as special snowflakes. There's special rules about how to roll stats and mercy re-rolls so that the average PC is significantly stronger than the average NPC and you can't have a below average character as a PC unless you specifically want to. PC classes are also outright better than NPC classes, while NPCs can have levels in things like Fighter they'll usually have a knock-off version like Warrior which means that a commoner who's been in the army for 8 years will be something like a level 5 warrior and weaker than a level 2 PC fighter. Taciturn Tactician fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Nov 16, 2013 |
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Magres posted:This is something that's really cool about Dungeons and Dragons 3.5E (or any pen and paper game) - if you make a level 1 character and level them all the way to 20 (at 20, Clerics are basically demigods, to give you a sense of scale), you have an actual narrative for how that character came to be what they are at 20. I wish I could say that I didn't think it was awesome that I was in a game that lasted for years.
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Artemis J Brassnuts posted:Wow's free to play up to level 20 now, right? I kind of want to make a level 20 rogue and just assassinate the sexytime RPers in goldshire (I assume THAT hasn't change in 5 years). Taciturn Tactician posted:Yeah right. Level 1 of any PC class is already by design more powerful than a normal person, nothing stops them from already having a mysterious past or "top of their class in wizarding school" background. WoW's levelling system has never stopped a level 1 warlock who's severely challenged by a giant spider from claiming to be the next coming of Shiva while casting a tiny fireball at bats. Oh, that reminds me of a moderate DnD trolling story. It was more luck than anything else, but consistent luck is the closest thing I have to skill. Fake edit: holy poo poo this is really long. Basically I make a really unconventional character and murder a very strong character that is a pompous rear end in a top hat. So, a buddy of mine was doing a "kill 'em all" Ravenloft campaign. We were starting out at level 1 and he warned us that there would be blood - no DM cheating to save characters. The group is larger than usual and filled with rules lawyers, min-maxers and combat wombats; all people who have mastered the art of fudging die rolls... and then there's me. I enjoy bad rolls as much as I enjoy good rolls, and my stats were some bad ones. My stats rolls were something like this: 17, 14, 13, 10, 10, 9 - statistically average, but oddly far below the group average. The DM's looking at my stats and thinking, well... you're gonna die quick. So, I'm flipping through the class list and mulling my options over when, all of a sudden, it hits me: Dexterity Paladin! The minimum stats to be a paladin are something like 14 charisma, 12 wisdom and 9 strength. Most people who roll a lot of high numbers (such as one of the other players in this group) will go paladin and put their best number into strength to get huge damage bonuses with a giant sword. However, you can get a weapon specialization feat that allows you to use your dex bonus for damage if you're using a light weapon. A high dexterity also makes you harder to hit, so although it's mechanically advantageous in many ways to make a dagger-wielding dex character, no self-respecting fighter character would wade into battle with a tiny weapon. Not me though. I made a paladin with 9 strength, 17 dexterity and for my special blessed holy sword? A rapier. None of that is really the troll part though. The trolling part comes in with that other paladin character I mentioned. The session starts, and since he's the strongest and holiest in this dark land, he starts acting bossy. He's lawful good, but he's harshly judging innocent civilians for the things they have to do to survive under the oppressive thumbs of the vampires ruling the area. He's more inquisitor than righteous warrior, and I make my opinion known. This carries on for several sessions before he makes a pompous show of power in a town full of well-meaning people: when they don't immediately show fealty to his god, he beheads one on the spot. This is a town that was strategically important - our party would have done well to make them our allies, but that's not a possibility now. I tell him he's gone too far, and he threatens to do the same to my character. I back down and start scheming. The next session, I talk with the DM. He's a friend, and I'm about to attempt a massive dick move that might break down the group - potentially causing the drama kings & queens to import the drama into real life, so I want to get his approval. I explain my character's perceptions and motivations, he considers it for a moment, agrees and gives me the green light. So the session starts up and I gather everyone together for a call-out in town square. I publicly denounce the other paladin's actions and accuse him of having fallen from grace. I demand that he show regret and atone for his actions. He basically tells me to go gently caress myself, so I announce that I'm smiting him. Jaws hit the floor and the DM smiles. Everyone knows that I'm the weakest combat character - the only reason I'm surviving is the paladin's healthy bonuses against evil... and after my conversation with the DM, he decided that the paladin I had denounced had, in fact, fallen from grace and was now considered evil. Also, since I was so meek and unassuming, the DM also ruled it a sneak attack. At this point, I'm pretty pleased with myself. I don't expect to survive the combat but dammit, I took a stand against an rear end in a top hat who was doing a piss-poor job of playing to his alignment and railroading the entire game. I was ready for that character to die, right then and there, for what he believed in. However, in a remarkable twist of fate, I make my attack roll and up comes a natural 20. With the smite bonus, my dex bonus, the holy sword's bonus against evil and my critical strike roll, I killed him in one shot. His body slumps to the ground and I tell the DM that I immediately begin praying for his lost soul, that it might still find its way to the light. The DM ended that session there so the guy could make his next character, and the campaign tapered off after another session or three because the guy who played the paladin I killed kept trying to find reasons for his subsequent character to hate me and want me dead.
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Taciturn Tactician posted:Yeah right. Level 1 of any PC class is already by design more powerful than a normal person, nothing stops them from already having a mysterious past or "top of their class in wizarding school" background. WoW's levelling system has never stopped a level 1 warlock who's severely challenged by a giant spider from claiming to be the next coming of Shiva while casting a tiny fireball at bats. Although to be fair, as part of this system normal NPCs are hilariously incompetent at, well, pretty much everything. A normal level 1 Commoner only has a 50% chance of being able to identify what race he is.
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Artemis J Brassnuts posted:I woke up this morning to install WoW and do this, but I remembered the whole "flagging" thing. Anyone know what the popular PVPRP realm is? Messing with the cybersex idiots in Goldshire is always high risk, though. A couple times my old buddy O and I would transit through there, she'd get tells saying how people wanted to have sex with me, and I'd get tells from people saying they wanted to have sex with her. It was the weirdest loving dynamic - why in the hell would you send the tell to the dude NEXT to the chick, instead of the chick? We tried stopping a few times just to mess with people, though - O would do something like flirt with the mark for a few minutes, then RP-emote punching them in the junk and walking off. The problem was, that ended up being a coin flip on whether or not we'd harvest some delicious tears or if it would just turn the mark on even more. I had more reliable results with RP-emoting doing wrestling moves on marks, but there were some homosexual marks that ended up getting so turned on by an emote of some dude doing a DDT on his character that I got tell-stalked for a couple days one time. That was WEIRD.
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AXE COP posted:Although to be fair, as part of this system normal NPCs are hilariously incompetent at, well, pretty much everything. A normal level 1 Commoner only has a 50% chance of being able to identify what race he is. Not entirely inaccurate if you look at all the German/Irish/Dutch/Italian/X-Americans.
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Coolguye posted:A couple times my old buddy O and I would transit through there, she'd get tells saying how people wanted to have sex with me, and I'd get tells from people saying they wanted to have sex with her. It was the weirdest loving dynamic - why in the hell would you send the tell to the dude NEXT to the chick, instead of the chick? Maybe they thought you were together and that they had to ask one to cyberbang the other?
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Namarrgon posted:Not entirely inaccurate if you look at all the German/Irish/Dutch/Italian/X-Americans. Yeah but "identifying race" in D&D means "I wonder if that twenty-foot tall dude with blue skin is a--nah gently caress it he's definitely a Human." There's basically a 50% chance that a Dragonkin Commoner could go around his entire life being thoroughly convinced that he's a Half-Elf.
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The White Dragon posted:Yeah but "identifying race" in D&D means "I wonder if that twenty-foot tall dude with blue skin is a--nah gently caress it he's definitely a Human." I know, I was joking. Sort of.
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D34THROW posted:Maybe they thought you were together and that they had to ask one to cyberbang the other? I refuse to believe that sort of politeness and chivalry exists among people who spend hours trying to get fake sex on World of Warcraft.
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Coolguye posted:I refuse to believe that sort of politeness and chivalry exists among people who spend hours trying to get fake sex on World of Warcraft. Sometimes an e-Cybersex dude just wants an e-Wingman to get things done I guess.
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Jeffrey posted:Look out a level 15 Italian! Watch out for his +3 Holy Cannoli.
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Coolguye posted:Doesn't matter, the lowbie areas on each side are owned territory and the level 1 cybersex alts don't have to flag up to be in Goldshire. You'd have to tool around Booty Bay to screw with people, probably, and level 20 isn't high enough for how rough that place gets. There go my Saturday plans. Guess I'll have to go outside or something.
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Playing WoW for the PVP is like watching Downton Abbey for the sex scenes.Coolguye posted:I refuse to believe that sort of politeness and chivalry exists among people who spend hours trying to get fake sex on World of Warcraft. They're asking indirectly so that they won't get directly rejected. It's middleschool nerd behavior.
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Artemis J Brassnuts posted:and nobody doing anything shady in the inn to clown on. Guaranteed they were, just using tells and whispers.
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Tulip posted:Playing WoW for the PVP is like watching Downton Abbey for the sex scenes.
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