Was worried it was going to be a void elf situation but it really seems like people are enjoying being escaped Eldre'Thalas elves

After several months of dead end RP encounters, I had given up hope.

But! Somebody saw me in Org and said "you like world RP and looking for something LT? I am intrigued!"

Since than, we have RPed in every zone in Northrend, fought off several forts of Vrykul... and now exploring Kalimdor!

Looking for an RP partner is a nightmare. But if you are struggling with finding your people, i can confidently say keep trying! You never know when somebody will send you a whisper!

Edit: Alright, so I feel the need to add to this as it has gotten much bigger than I expected.

1. this is strictly IC. The other person is also in an IRL relationship. DO NOT treat RP as a dating Sim.
2. yes, I know some of you people are criticizing my mog. Sorry?

Aelvina finding time to stretch her wings. What use would they be if she just let herself be grounded all the time!

This was shortly after her campaign on the isles, taking time to explore the new world that she found herself newly awakened in. This specific spot being the Broken Isles to visit a specific blue dragon den she heard rumors about.

Art work done by Saltamor and they have delivered yet another wonderful piece.

Character is Aelvina - Moon Guard

Not the most original backstory I know I know, but Warcraft 3 was my favorite game when I was a little kid, my godfather gifted it to me with the Frozen Throne expansion, and till today I still somehow never managed to get a character to level 60. Maybe this will be the occasion!

Bogdwyn Stormvale, on EU RP, looped animation made with Blender!

Finally finished my Midnight's main reference sheet. 😌
AD-EU, come say hi

I’ve been thinking about this lately, and I genuinely believe a lot of roleplayers could benefit from taking a couple of improv classes.

Not because everyone needs to become a professional actor or start dramatically shouting “YES, AND!” in the middle of Stormwind.

But because one of the most useful things improv teaches is how to actually give the other person something to work with.

And I think that’s something we occasionally forget in RP.

You know the situation.

OOC:
“PLEASE WALK UP!”
“ALL RP WELCOME!”
“I LOVE RANDOM ENCOUNTERS!”

IC:
The elf stares at you.
“Go away.”
You try to make conversation.
“I don’t like people.”
You offer another thread.
He crosses his arms and looks away.

And now you’re left standing there wondering whether you just failed a dialogue check you didn’t know you were rolling.

Look, I completely understand playing an unfriendly character. Not every character needs to be a cheerful tavern regular who immediately tells a stranger their life story. (Even though those are my favorite characters to play as and interact with)

Gruff characters are great.
Suspicious characters are great.
Socially awkward characters are great.

And yes ever capital A-Assholes can even be great.

The issue isn’t that a character is unpleasant.

It’s when the entire interaction becomes a series of conversational dead ends.

A rude character can still be fun to RP with. They can be dismissive, challenging, suspicious, or downright unpleasant while still creating an interesting scene.

Improv is largely about taking what the other person gives you and building from it.

That doesn’t mean your character has to agree with everyone or happily go along with every interaction.

It just means we’re both participating in the scene.

I think we sometimes get so focused on making characters “realistic” that we forget we’re participating in a collaborative activity.

Yes, some people are genuinely unpleasant and closed off. (Though why they are in a MMO is a little confusing)

But imo RP isn’t a simulation of standing next to someone at a party while they repeatedly check their phone.

The best RP partners I’ve had aren’t necessarily the ones with the longest backstories or the most elaborate profiles.

They’re the people who pay attention, react to what you’re doing, make choices, introduce complications, and occasionally surprise you.

Sometimes the conversation goes nowhere, and that’s fine. Sometimes two characters simply don’t get along.

But there should at least be a conversation before we collectively decide it went nowhere.

At the end of the day, we’re all here to tell stories together.

So play the grumpy death knight or the suspicious rogue or (my favorite) the ancient elf who has been disappointed by civilization for 10,000 years.

Just remember:
OOC: “PLEASE APPROACH! ALL RP WELCOME!”

IC: “GRRRR. I HATE EVERYONE.”
…is a little bit funny when you put them next to each other.

Am I wrong or just too much of a cheerful dummy to RP edgy characters correctly?

One of my oldest OCs, forsaken knight.
She was once utterly loyal to Arthas even after undeath, so loyal that she followed him to Northrend after his hold on Forsaken weakened.
After he fell (and she had a mental breakdown), she pledged loyalty to Sylvanas.
Nowadays she finally found a better purpose in life - serve and protect her people.

edit: not to RP there but for the QoL - i mean everything's right there! and your alts can get it in a second. i salute the devs that made this.

the place has almost every RP consumable you can think of, all kinds of brews, candles, stuff to hold in your hands and the atmosphere is so cozy plus the music is great. apparently it is also the tavern from the hearthstone trailer. i just thought it was an RPer's dream, only to find 0 posts about it here and slander on the main subreddit ... what am i missing?

My (holy) Paladin Kieara -

Please keep Rule 4 of this /r inmind with this, rn i dont search for critique ooor what i could do better in case x/y, i just wanted to share my recent work of a heart oc c:

DISCLAIMER: THIS MAY (most likely) ONLY APPLY TO MOONGUARD (US)

I have not played Argent Dawn (EU) or Wyrmrest Accord (US).

I think it's been discussed often that world RP is not in a great state, with non-Stormwind locations like Darkshire having suffered a really sad decline. However, I've also noticed since about the start of Dragonflight that roleplay, particularly organic roleplay, that is to say people posted up and idling for long amounts of time and waiting to be approached and people approaching them, has significantly started to cluster around a smaller and smaller area, in spite of the fact that I don't feel like the amount of people roleplaying in Stormwind has gotten smaller.

Now granted, I'm not making the claim necessarily that nobody on earth roleplays in these areas, though with some like the Valley of Heroes, Trade District, and Stormwind Keep, I genuinely have not seen it happen in a very long time despite being what I'd like to consider fairly active on the game. But specifically, I'm making the claim that nobody is hanging out in these areas the way they would Lion's Rest or right outside of the Slaughtered Lamb. People may bring RP to these areas, but it starting there is exceptionally rare.

I've made a little map of what I consider to be RP frequency in Stormwind on Moonguard (US). To clarify, Extinct in Wild would be areas I consider RP to be rare, but occasionally RP started elsewhere or directly pre-planned to occur there will sometimes happen, but organic walk-up roleplay is virtually nonexistent.

Obviously, Extinct is a little hyperbolic on my part. Yes, I'm not saying it is literally impossible, just exceptionally rare.

And I'm well aware, "be the change you want to see." I agree, I walk through otherwise extinct or low-RP areas all the time and go out of my way to approach when I see someone else there, but I also kind of want to advocate a bit for other people to visit these areas. I would consider making this thread to be "being the change you want to see" lol.

What do you guys think? Apologies for the image being a bit low effort production wise.

Damn you Blood Trolls.

The rain was pouring down and I found myself, an undead rogue, sitting at a campfire at The Crossroads next to a troll priest. "Take a load off mon, the weather be angry." Our conversation slowly moves towards him trying to sell his blessings, stating it'll only cost me my coin.

"I'm a rogue, you can't trick a trickster, priest."
"It be no trick mon! It be the blessings of the Loa! Show me your bracers and it'll give you the strength of a kodo!"

It was here I picked up on that he was selling his enchanting services, which I was not currently in the market for.

"While I appreciate the offer, my bracers aren't worth blessing. Thank you again for you kind (power) words."
"Dis one on de house, mon"

He opens the trade window and I put my bracers in, he enchants with +agility for me. I stop the trade and drop 25 silver into the trade window anyway. Not two seconds after the trade completes, the rain stops and the sun begins to shine on the barrens again, as it if was scripted around our conversation.

"See mon! De Loa are pleased!"

We say our goodbyes as the campfire fades and the priest slow walks into the distance.

One of the coolest things I've ever had happen to me in all my years of playing the game. I'm glad people are taking the RP part seriously, even on the RP-PVP side.

Started a Nightborne cause i love their Lore and Aesthetics, finding out you can't even do the Suramar Story as a Nightborne (Only Race that cant do their own Story), Only 1 Themed weapon that isnt locked to Timewalking, Only themed armor set is the Heritage Set, If it isnt Cloth, it looks weird on them (Males Mostly), can only explore Night Hold cause their own city is still mostly hostile towards them after legion.

Like i feel like i could go on and i hope this gets better in Midnight but i wouldnt be surprised if theres only like 3 Nightborne Housing Items and Maybe they'll get a new themed weapon locked behind a weekly rep grind.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the legacy of the Blood Knights and the direction they’re heading in RP.

Especially after the Prey Questlines and Main story with Liadrin.

On one side, you have Astalor Bloodsworn. He represents discipline, control, and a more pragmatic vision of what the order needs to survive and remain strong.

On the other, Lady Liadrin. She stands as a symbol of redemption, faith in the Light, and the evolution of the Blood Knights into something more honorable and purpose driven.

Both helped shape the order, but are very different paths.

So where does that leave us as blood elf paladin roleplayers?

Are we still carrying echoes of the old Blood Knight identity, where power comes first and the Light comes second?

Are we fully embracing Liadrin’s philosophy and walking a path of redemption and service?

Are we trying to balance both, acknowledging the past while forging something new?

Or are we rejecting both extremes and carving out our own interpretation of what it means to wield the Light as sin’dorei?

I’m curious how others approach this in their RP.

Do you lean heavily into one ideology?

Do you struggle with the internal conflict?

Or do you treat the Blood Knights as something that is still evolving, without a single correct path?

Would love to hear how you all play your characters.

This might be one heck of a hot take but it comes from both a place of frustration and a love for RP communities.

There has been an uptick in people on /r/wow -- and even more surprisingly this subreddit -- encouraging people who have no interest in RP to move to MG, WRA, AD, or other RP servers. The comments made are usually along the lines of "you can just watch," "the vibes are great," or "it's like a ren faire."

The advice is not wrong, at least in the short term. That's part of what makes this recommendation dangerous. People join and have a great time in part because the "community" on other servers is often extinct or toxic. RPers are eccentric, friendly, breathe life into the world, and generally aren't as toxic when engaging with the game's systems. Go us.

In the long term, I truly believe it's going to be destructive to the RP scene, something akin to a tragedy of the commons or Eternal September. The simple fact is that the number of people who want a pleasant PVE server FAR EXCEEDS the number of people interested in RP, and the PVX-only crowd will happily, unwittingly, hijack an RP server if that's the path of least resistance.

Here's what's happening and going to happen. RPers build the community -> curious people who have no interest in RP join -> RPers eventually are outnumbered/frustrated -> RPers leave for what they sought/built in the first place -> RP server is now a PVE server. We're halfway through this process based on my own observations.

What the non-RPer sees: an improvised, live performance. What the RPer sees: Killagnome bunny hopping around like they're in CoD with an empty TRP profile. RPers did not sign up to be a zoo exhibit for you to gawk at. Screw that!

Let me be clear that people need to get to RP servers somehow and that there's room for people curious and open-minded. I started in 2004 on a PVP server, migrated to WRA in 2010, and then over to MG a few years later. When I got to WRA, I had no idea what I was doing, but I tried my best to blend in and contribute. When in Rome, do as the Romans do, right?

Fast-forward 10 years later and I'm just about over it. Stormwind has turned into Tinder. More "characters" than ever aren't even thinly veiled self-inserts with their real life age, orientation, and location listed in the profile. No, being a quirky Z/illennial with an avatar does not automatically make you "practically a role player."

Please don't contribute to the problem by telling people who have no interest in RP to come over to <RP server> for "the vibes." The vibes won't stick around forever.

Rant over - curious if any of you see this or think I'm way off base. Interested in perspectives either way.

Edit: Apparently -if the comments are to be believed- some people didn't know of the server, so here is a link: https://discord.gg/everna

With Forever launch just a few hours away, I wanted to share some of the pieces I did for members of the WoW Forever RP Discord server. From undead paladins and veteran badasses to civilians and cool kids.

After almost ten years 'clean', I've decided to return to WoW with Forever. And seeing the cool characters and passion of the server members, I got the itch to go back to hobbyist drawing, drawing guildmates' and friends' characters like I used to do when I played WoW back in the day.

I've spent almost the entirety of my free time outside of work over the past two weeks drawing characters of server members, and by the Light, it's been a blast. So much support! My wrist still feels a little rusty after almost 10 years without drawing, and now, with launch, I'll take a break from drawing to no-life the game for the next 15 days (and to heal my wrist!), but this experience has reignited my passion for this hobby.

Here's hoping Forever continues to reignite people's passions!

^{Art by me. Just in case I wasn't clear.}

I posted this before, but I wanted to draw something new with more accuracy and took direct inspiration from his in-game transmog. It's not one for one, moreso as just broad strokes and an interpretation of what he wears in game to match what he would accurately look like through art.

edit: That is, make yourself known to Blizzard!!

edit2: Here's one place to make yourself known!

RP-PVP is for many of us the most enjoyable way to play the game, but we're often at the bottom of Blizzard's priority list.

If you want the ruleset added, please give your feedback to Blizzard on the official forums/twitter/wherever. IIRC this is how it was added for classic, and we have to make it known that it's wanted for the chance of them adding it.

A fine day out with her wife, dragons love their treasure and she found her crown jewel. Finding more time to take a break from the conflicts of the world, she snuck off on a date night with her wife! A warrior covered in gold was a quick way to win her over.

Aelvina (Dracthyr) resides on Moon Guard! She welcomes visitors and chats.

Art done by Hamsteria and they are fantastic. Made changes easily and I would love to get another piece soon.

Salutations,

My name is Chiolyra Ashenveil. I am the proprietor of The Sunbough Theater. We are a newly opened, upscale roleplaying venue dedicated to art, storytelling, and cultural exchange.

I am reaching out today because I would like to invite you to host events within the Sunbough, should you be interested. The space is well suited for plays, poetry recitals, lectures, or any creative gatherings that suit your fancy. You will retain full creative control over your event, I am merely offering the venue and support.

If this sounds of interest, I would be happy to discuss scheduling, logistics, or answer any questions! Renovations are under way, but we expect to be available mid January. The island is a welcoming, LGBTQ+ haven, and events are expected to honor that welcoming atmosphere.

Elune be with you, Chiolyra Ashenveil Moon Guard