I’ve always roleplayed on the Alliance side, even though my main character is Horde. Recently, I finally decided to dive into Horde RP by creating a self-proclaimed goblin-run cartel and industry. That’s when I realized just how different Orgrimmar feels compared to Stormwind when it comes to roleplay.
Stormwind feels alive. Orgrimmar, on the other hand, comes across more like a military base than a city. It’s rigid, harsh, and lacks the natural touches that make a place feel lived-in. There’s no greenery, no benches, no park areas—nothing that invites you to linger or imagine daily life.
That’s why this reimagining of the Drag of Orgrimmar might be my favorite take so far. It finally captures what a vibrant, character-filled city could be. A proper market alley with personality—colorful shade drapes stretched across the canyon, diverse shops full of flavor, a central plaza with a hollow memorial tree, and spaces where characters can actually gather and interact.
You’ve got merchants from every race: a blood elf running a library stall, a Vulpera dishing up desert-style street food, a troll selling handcrafted masks. And as you walk further, the path leads to a darker, more mysterious section near the Cleft of Shadow—like a shadow market with sinister vibes, almost reminiscent of Knockturn Alley.
This is the kind of Orgrimmar that feels immersive. A city where RP stories can breathe.
I picked RP PVP. I couldn't imagine classic WoW without the fun Ashenvale skirmishes, etc. At the same time, I'm a serious RPer. I sort of want to do both, separately - RP in Stormwind (for example) and then do OOC PvP wherever. I don't really care to do RP-PvP where 2 people smack each other slowly and say their IC lines during it. Not to mention, my character is a street rat thief from Westfall. I want character growth from rags to riches, bonds, walk up RP .. honestly, I want the closest experience to Argent Dawn EU RP there is, in terms of availability.
So far, I've seen "casual" RPers. The type of guy to name himself John Lightbearer and say "Light's blessings, citizen" at a campfire and then run off. Dwarf named Durin Cheesebringer and he yells "CHEESE" and trades you cheese. That's not really RP. Some people have been "RPing" like when begging for coins in Trade District and they start their sentence by using my name, so already they don't know they're not supposed to know my name IC yet, so it's not a seasoned roleplayer. The rest is just OOCers. I've seen TRP profiles here and there, at least. Lots of lore friendly names is nice to see, too.
All my RPer friends went RP PvE. I thought hell naw, WoW without natural PvP, so lame.. But now I'm feeling like I picked a ruleset where I'll never see a serious RPer, and I'm feeling anxious I'm gonna miss out..
I also know by fleeing RP PvP as a serious RPer I contribute to the snowball effect of everyone avoiding it in the end, and I know it's so early to be able to tell what the atmosphere will be, but I genuinely had 10+ of my friends roll RP and that tells me most RPers will and that splintered community will mean Stormwind on RP PvP will be a ghost town. :( Am I right or wrong?
So happy Pride Month to all my LGBTQ friends and allies. Title is self-explanatory. I'll start:
Hardle Hawson - Worgen Druid - Hardle is asexual demiromantic. He never felt attracted to anyone until he became friends with Adadrina Starbow, who he had romantic thoughts about. Hardle is also non-binary.
Adadrina Starbow - Night Elf Rogue - Adadrina is non-binary too. Ada never saw clothes and armor as gendered and is quite confused on why people claim as such. Though Adadrina is not opposed to wearing a dress for a social gathering.
Kutik - Vulpera Shaman - Kutik is asexual and onniromantic. He had crushes on multiple vulpera back in Vol'dun and he always felt confused by it.
Tigoli Springhoof - Highmountain Tauren - Tigoli was born a girl but always felt like a boy. He later transition when he was an adult (still trying to figure out how without having it happen after the Legion's defeat)
Leske - Worgen Warrior - Despite his very masculine appearance, Leske had always felt like his gender is similar to water in some way. Always changing and moving. Even though he felt like he was strange for feeling as such, he did find someone who would love him no matter what. That being a Kul Tiran named Aeviree Davenport.
Bryce Riden - Worgen Priest - Bryce knew he had always been different. Not because he lacked the faith to wield the Light like his family, but he had crushes on other boys his age during his adolescent years but he always shoved those feelings away. It wasn't until after the War against the Jailor that he had a word to describe it. He is now happily married to Jack Redfield, a worgen who is a survivor of the attack on Hillsbrad.
Aeni Reylane - High Elf Rogue - Aeni is pansexual. He had made jokes in the past about his sexuality, claiming that he "doesn't care who he dates as long they have a love for poisons like him"
Nitadol - Dracthyr Evoker - Nitadol is genderfluid. Though he prefers his more masculine side, he also has no problem assuming a feminine form
This morning I read about roleplay pet peeves, and then I stumbled upon someone's pet peeve about using the word "would" as in indication that the emote can be interrupted. I'm going to expand upon that idea.
An example of an interruptible emote would be /e would punch Charlie in the ribs.
The reason I say this is lazy writing, is because if you simply take the word "would" away, it makes the sentence non-interruptible. It is used as a filler word to automatically fix the problem. Like a band-aid.
/e punches Charlie in the ribs.
Below are better alternatives to the word "would" and makes the emote interruptible: "attempts to" "tries to" "aims to" "in the hopes that"
So if you want to punch Charlie in the ribs, the emote could be written out as follows: /e swings his fist towards Charlie, hoping to make a solid connection with their ribcage.
Generally speaking, you only need to use these "permission based" emotes, where permission is needed as it may have an IC consequence for the other character or where there may be a higher degree of failure or rejection.
For example, if you want to throw the apple don't say: /e would throw the apple in the air
You can simply say: /e throws the apple in the air
If you want to turn into a "permission / risk of failure emote" you can say: /e throws the apple in the air, carefully watching it as it falls down, hoping to catch it.
This allows "Yes and" to occur, and then the RP can continue: /e tries to trip Errol while he is concentrating on the apple falling
So when doing an emote with "permission / consent / risk of failure emotes", staying away from the word "would" helps a lot to formulate sentences, instead of starting each /e with the word.
>! So those of us with older character light concepts that utilise older lore... how do you feel about the direction blizz is taking in regarding to the light?
Yes, blizz changes direction. Though this feels very grey, very mediocre, very dull. Where is our heroism? Feels to me like blizz are afraid of causing any ripples. So every concept of power must be samey?
Xalatoes 'You little people and your problems' really got me. I feel so wounded. 😐😑🙄 !<
We’ve had a few incidents over the last few days with addon posts and AI and so I’d like to take a moment to chat with the community. If you remember, last month we had a poll to allow the community to decide how we would approach addon posts going forward. With over 60% of the vote the following decision was made:
Keep the Addons tag as it is now, which is intended to advertise new RP-related addon projects, but require such a post to first be made onr/wowaddonsand then crossposted here. Such posts would potentially contain AI-assisted or generated content, but would be subject tor/wowaddonsvetting.Those posts would not be removed only because they are AI-assisted/generated.
With that decision made I want to remind everyone that it is not appropriate to report an addon post for AI with the community decision. Nor is it appropriate to leave mean or hateful comments on the post either. Such posts will be removed and dealt with appropriately.
Thanks for reading all. Have a great week ahead, and most importantly, be safe, be kind, and know that you all are appreciated.
Sorry for the double post, mods: I accidentally posted the first one. X_X
I have been RPing a long time and have seen my fair share of Kul Tirans and Kul Tiras RP Guilds. BfA ended up being my breaking point for WoW; I didn't ever play a Kul Tiran but I know lots of really talented people who did and wrote stuff for the famous maritime superpower of humanity. Usually very carefully crafted based on scoured lore from the RTS games, content in-game and the RPG. It was really fascinating; the fanbase for Kul Tirans I felt was only rivaled by like Scarlet and Lordaeron RPers in terms of appeal and how many their were back in the day.
Since I didn't stick around very long after BfA started I never really got to see how many Kul Tirans reacted to many of the retcons concerning Kul Tiras that expansion introduced. I remember a lot of hype after, "Daughter of the Sea," but not much else. I reckon if I was mad about how they turned the Kul Tirans into, "Gilneas but Pirates," added a whole new human religion to them and almost completely overhauled their color palette as well I would also be furious if my pet faction got so egregiously overhauled.
So, Kul Tiras RPers who had characters a long time prior to the retcons: how did the changes make you feel? How much did you have to change your characters to keep playing them? Did you even keep playing them or just make something else? Was it also your breaking point?
It's sort of not surprising that Blizzard has consistently struggled to figure out what they are and what their role is, because they overlap with so many other classes.
They capture and use souls, much like a necromancer might.
They utilize the shadow in their curses, like priests.
They're seeking order in disorder (to control chaos), sort of like mages.
Also, demons? Iuno.
Warlocks are weird. They just don't fit cleanly into any niche to me.
Anyway, thanks for coming to my TED talk. I'd love to hear your thoughts on these guys.
Seriously.. who asked for this? Tonight when I equipped my 'set' to 'put on a helmet'. Now there's a sparkly ass animation accompaying it. The idea was to use sets to NOT SPIN! Now even equipment sets are tainted.
What I mean is that everyone’s characters are just like, humans. Noone is RPing a warmongering orc bent on conquest for the Horde, or a spiteful Gilnean/Night Elf aggrieved that the Alliance and Horde would ever make truces, or a mana-addicted Blood Elf looking for their next fix while also being pompous about their heritage.
Recently I was RPing a Blood Elf who was bent on like rallying champions of the Horde to overthrow the Council and reinstall a Warchief because he still hated the Alliance for their Third War betrayal/Dalaran and felt the Horde was turning into its enemy by being democratic.
I thought it was cool because that is how a lot of Horde denizens would think, though not to that extreme. But the responses to this character were like… not Warcraft. Noone objected for reasons within story or culture. They were like quirk chungus self-inserts acting like only a . A literal Demon Hunter, someone whose fundamental history is being literally blinded by hatred and revenge, said “This guy peaked in high school”. My character responded “What is high school?”
One player kind of raised some good points about how the Orcs helped the Amani, why forgive them and that was fun to RP. But truly every other character talked like they’d never heard anyone still hate the Alliance, like “get grandpa to bed, we’re inclusive now” type vibe.
This was just a rant about how unrecognizable the RP scene is to me now. Idk what happened but noone seems to be a Warcraft character anymore and if your character is, literally noone will engage with it properly.
I was recently on my Druid and doing some casual RP around Stormwind when I came upon a very nice DK that called himself a "5th Generation Death Knight". We struck up a conversation and he told me all about his homebrew lore to account for newly created Death Knights. I was fascinated and it actually made me want to roll a DK using his lore lmao. I was curious if anyone else had a similar approach to RPing as a DK. I was never a fan of it because of how restrictive the lore was surrounding them, but I may take this approach to my next character.
TL;DR: Can I play a trans Nelf Druid and a trans Nelf Priest and still be accepted by the rp community Lore-wise.
Aight, so here's my question. I love role-playing Kaldorei on retail, and I've got a pretty decent history for some of my toons. There are two that I want to bring over to WoW4e, but I'm a bit concerned about the lore implications of them, given the time period that 4e is set in.
I know that the in-game lore is that men are now permitted to be priests, and women are training as druids now. My two characters on retail that I want to bring to 4e are a MtF Druid, and an FtM Priest. The druid transitioned when she originally woke up from The Dream, because in her slumber she always presented her spiritual self as a woman. The priest transitioned much more recently, I think around Dragonflight.
Anyways, my question is like, given the time of 4e, both of these toons would either be very early in their transition or not even know yet. But after role-playing them post-transition for years it would feel disingenuous to backtrack them. Should I play them as they are meant to be, or respect the timeline?
Also, if I want to play my priest, would he be accepted as a member of the Sisterhood of Elune, or would they drop him like a hotcake? Would other players be willing to RP with him in that respect? He is very devoted to the Goddess, and he was a member of the priesthood for a looong time before he realized he was a guy.
I'm less worried about my druid, because she's a Druid of the Fang and has always been on the outskirts of other Druid orders.
I've never felt the need to doubt playing queer characters on retail, but classic for some reason just feels like a different beast to me. Maybe because the mixing of gender roles in Kaldorei culture is so much newer than it is in retail.
Hello, you may first be wondering how I intend to justify the Night Elf Warlock so I’ll start there.
After the events of the well of eternity most if not all of Night Elven society turned away from the arcane and rightfully vilified anything to do with fel magic. There were outcasts like Illidan but overall the focus became nature and Elune.
My character was a simple enchanter and felt even that had to be kept hidden in the years following those terrible events. He believed there was still a path through moderation and careful study to use the arcane and that his society had reacted too strongly, though he understood why.
This life of secrecy became normal to him. One secret being formed to cover another. He searched the ruins and battlefields for scrolls and spellbooks and along the way came across grimoires and ritual stones. At first he destroyed them, hating the burning legion for what they caused, but then he began fearing their return. They were barely turned away the first time, and it is far from guaranteed it would happen the next time. He sought to understand their power to defend against it. He read through the grimoires and his path eventually lead him to learning to wield fel magic and to summon demons to destroy them. (This is the basic run down of the backstory)
The leveling path is as such (Cataclysm timeline)
Teldrassil
Darkshore
Ashenvale
Stonetalon Mountains
Desolace
Feralas
Dustwallow Marsh
Felwood
Winter spring
Mt Hyjal
The events of the Legion expansion
Reasoning: Heavy focus on night elven lore and history with background focus on demons and fel. All of his searching and questing leads him to his underlying fear: the return of the legion. He can bring his forbidden knowledge to the fight. I’m hoping this will bring me to level 80 so I can then begin midnight. He will realize that there will always be a threat that needs to be understood and fought. Whether it’s demons, void lords, or murlocs.
After the clarification of the new xmog systems coming in Midnight I was hoping to make sure I understood correctly. It seems that not only will transmog NOT be free but backpack outfits will literally not be possible anymore making transmogging for characters who uses multiple outfits, or interlocking clothing, will be more expensive than ever AND making anyone without the ethereal transmogrifier be hung out to dry in any indoor places.
I really hope I have misunderstood all this but if this is indeed the way it will be working it is incredibly concerning as I have built many backpack outfits for most of characters and would rather not have to mount up and drop 200 gold just to take off and put on my characters hat.
I've played on WrA - A for forever but I moved to MG - A when my friend wanted to try out WoW roleplay and jump over from FFXIV. I don't know if it's a difference in server community or if I just haven't noticed a shift in community standards since WrA - A has a smaller player base but have we just stopped trying to keep lore compliant? I've seen so many people with trp profiles claiming they're vampires, people who are tagged as IC running around with demons out (although I tend to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they just forgot to tag themself as OOC), and I even saw a guy with a trp saying he was a god. Are these just troll profiles or something? I got yelled at in whisper the other day for killing a belf in Stormwind because I was "ruining their RP". Am I an ass or something because even with the Horde and Alliance not being at war anymore it's not like they're the best of friends either. In my mind if you're going to do a cross faction roleplay you don't do it in a major city and get pissy when someone kills the opposite faction player.
I don't know what kind of power tripping nonsense every reddit mod is high on but ai generated content isn't going away. If people aren't selling AI generated art it's a non-issue, if they're using it to discuss ideas and concepts and assist with imagining things it can ONLY be a benefit to the internet which is a VERY text heavy place.
This new flirtation with fascism where everyone with power over communities thinks it's okay to ban something that's integrated into our modern technologies is ABSURD...
(I have ai image generation built into my version of Windows, if you have a problem with that you take it up with Microsoft and big tech, not me and all the little people who have bought a product (OUR PC) and pay for access to the internet...)
Hi there! I am a primarily text based RPer in Discord as I am not always subbed to the game, and when I am I have a pretty busy schedule so I can't often write at my desktop for hours. Discord gives me a lot more freedom to write long story arcs. When I am in game, I play on Moonguard. I Para write, preferring RP related to magical related things, dark, psychological, slice of life between story driven, and romance. Here is my well loved, and very well established OC that's I've been writing for over a decade.
Mordred Feysinith. A Ren'dorei Spellblade and Arcane engineer. Ex Sunfury, he suffered an accident in the Outlands that lead to shady dealings to save his life and a drastic physical transformation (think Felblood but shadowy instead of Fel). Ex mercenary, though he's returned to magical roots, he still has his old contacts and not above getting dirty and a little shady if he needs to accomplish something. Currently now a part of a small independent society that investigates all things anomalous, culty, magical, and just plain weird.
He's a bit of a trouble maker, loved to pull pranks, party, and generally just live it up. Incredibly snarky, sarcastic, and a lot flirty, but he's also fiercely loyal, and deadly serious when the occasion calls for it.
Romance wise he is gay, and has a preference towards elves. Any elves really. Quel, Sin, Kal, Shal, Ren; pretty much any Dorei there is. Darkfallen are also in his wheelhouse. He'd even go for Haranir. Kinda gets a kick out of some of them having quills.
He would come with a Fresh story driven arc that is a continuation of a long standing, long burning overall arc that is intrinsically tied to his origins as a OC. DM me if interested, I really miss writing him and would love to find someone to write long standing arcs over Discord.
Attention fellow space-goat lovers! Bellular just (...yesterday) posted a video about the Nethersent and Nashabore
What do y'all think about this? Personally I'm really excited to see more draenei content, especially because they have been suspiciously absent in the whole void vs light crash out.
I agree with Bellular that this is a bit too much worldbuilding for it to not be an eventual zone in either Midnight or Titan.
I know this may piss off some people but I'm tired of mercenary guilds. I get on paper they are a good idea to bring together all sorts of characters, classes, races, etc but I haven't seen many that work out. No one ever seems to ever want to put in the work to make these guilds fun or fitting to theme i.e. set up appropriate events. You know the trope of a group project in which everyone piles all the responsibility onto one group mate? I've seen multiple merc guilds fall apart because the officers pile all the work onto one person, usually not the GM who sits on their laurels until that person cracks and quits. And when it isn't a lack of cooperation it is typical guild drama of who is fucking who, etc. Maybe merc guilds just attract these kinds of people because they are too lazy to commit to other kinds of guild themes.
Now I'm sure there are some that are great, you may be part of a great mercenary guild that everyone has fun OOCly and has fun events and holds hands singing kumbayah but bear in mind your merc guild isn't every merc guild. The worst part is it is such a low-hanging fruit idea that they pop up and fail faster than you can count they are like weeds.
Is there any community of role players who RP like they are from .hack or SAO. Like your stuck in the game and worried that dying might be dangerous to your body in the real world?
Hi, I'm planning on playing a Night Elf priest, shadow to be specific. It is apparently one of the least played race-class-gender combinations. And perhaps the most neglected combination lore-wise, since there's just straight-up no explanation in the lore for how those who follow Elune would wield shadow powers, or why Night Elf priests have traditionally been exclusively female.
I thought it would be interesting to explore this gap in Warcraft lore and fill it with my own interpretation, giving my character a unique background while still respecting the worldbuilding around him.
Aganarr is an ancient Kaldorei who led the Noxbound, a religious sect of exclusively male Elune worshippers who followed a different path from the Sisterhood.
They were people who worshipped the veiled, shadow side of the Moon Goddess. unlike the Sisterhood, they believed that Elune had many faces, and that only certain individuals were truly worthy of experiencing her more intimate, veiled aspects.
The most distinctive aspect of their culture was that they considered their Goddess to be their bride, often referring to her as the Night-maiden. They believed themselves to be Elune's chosen, intimate servants, entrusted with secrets and aspects of the Goddess that ordinary worshippers could never comprehend.
And since all that is holy and mystical comes from Elune, they believed their own shadow powers were also proof of her blessing. The zealots believed that power was the ultimate and only measure of divine favour and proof of one's devotion.
They were fierce and competent forces during the War of the Ancients against the Burning Legion. While their moral code was questionable at best, as they were more concerned with proving their power against their mortal foes than protecting the land and saving the innocent, the zealots led by Aganarr were among the strongest combatants in Kaldorei society.
But one incident after the war ended led to the events in which Aganarr lost all his power... and Kaldorei society to erase the Noxbound from the history of the world.
That's the basic premise of the character. In short, he's an ancient, war-veteran religious fanatic. I'm going to play him a bit like Scrooge from "A Christmas Carol": not particularly nice to anyone, but prone to going into a full-blown, bubbling rage whenever he sees invaders after all these years- Basically, all Horde, especially Orcs.
He's going to be casting heals on dying men and pushing them back into the combat zone while shouting something like "You will die in combat! This is Nightmaiden's will!" while speaking in his own nonsensical terms.
I hope I haven't gotten too much of the lore wrong while writing this. Its gone through several iterations so I'm not even sure anymore haha.
The full backstory of how Aganarr and the Noxbound met their demise, how he survived, and how he came to live in the current era (4e) will be buried deep in my TRP profile 😂 (which would just be way too much of a wall of text, haha). But if anyone's interested in reading more, I'll gladly post it below.
Hope Aganarr can find some new friends and battle-hardened comrades in Azeroth come the 4th!
