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ShadowCat
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It's not a live or die situation.
replied on: 4/3/2001 1:57:44 PM

I will admit it, however, that I should belong to Roleplayers Anonymous.
"Hi, my name is Jenn, and I'm a Roleplayer."
"Hi, Jenn!"
I certainly can slip out of character and just play the game to play, BUT I prefer not to. I suppose it has to do with the escapism that games like this present. For a short time I live a virtual life in a different virtual world. My real life problems are not my characters problems and that's fine by me. If roleplaying gets my mind off of the day to day grind than I'm all for it. But that's just me.
Now, as for why it seems most RPers turn thier noses up at people who don't RP it's because we're essentially putting up a shield. Why? When a non-RPer goes out of his/her way to disrupt/annoy/insult a group of RPers as they RP it speaks badly of those who don't. Not that everyone is like that, it's just like you can have 100 nice customers in a day and have that one bad customer come along and make you think all customers are @$$ holes. We RPers are spoiled. When we do come across a nice non-RPer and start to hope that this person might RP with them only to have the person decide it isn't his cup of tea we get pissy faced. Why is that? Because, just like spoiled children, we get upset when somebody doesn't want to play us the way WE want to play. But just like not every non-RPer is a PK @$$wipe, not every RPer is a Roleplaying Elitist bent on not speaking to anyone who doesn't adress him/her with a "hail" (ala UO).
Negative aspects of styles of play tend to set the stereotypes of people in those catagories, but just like real life stereotypes hold just about as much truth.
As for why I think RPing is essencial? If it wasn't then what would the point be to Trandoshans and Wookiees having a long time rivalry? What would the point be to having political skills? Why bother with any kind of confrontations at all? If you argue that it's for PvP reasons then go and play a Quake Deathmatch, you'll get about as much depth if there wasn't some imagined anamosity going on.
Nutz, and I've rambled on so long I now have to go to work.

No one has ever accused me of NOT being long winded! Heh! I'll say more when I get back from the daily grind.

TLC

Cat

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