All the World’s a Stage: The guild hall

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All the World’s a Stage brings you the latest ideas and suggestions about roleplaying in the World of Warcraft. One of the greatest problems people have with roleplaying in WoW is that the game has a tendency to spread people out all over Azeroth working towards disparate goals, and that makes it hard to sustain a roleplaying environment. Roleplayers can gather together in a meeting place of some sort in order to roleplay, but doing this every time isn’t feasible — inevitably, we want to go questing, get loot, and actually play the game too, all in different places. So the majority of roleplayers join roleplaying guilds of one sort or another , and use the regular guild chat channel as their default in-character roleplaying channel which people can participate in no matter what they’re doing in the rest of the world. Most guilds tend to imagine that their hearthstones (or some imaginary gnomish device) can act as walkie-talkies of sorts and allow everyone to communicate over great distances, no matter where they are. Today, however, I will share with you some of the ways this solution falls short, and take a look at a better way to make roleplaying work in a guild, no matter what level you are or what you want to do with your game time. This idea can seem strange at first, but in the end it can provide many roleplaying opportunities — allowing you to alternately build your RP stories, build up your character’s levels, gold, or gear, or do all of these at the same time. Continue reading All the World’s a Stage: The guild hall Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , WoW Social Conventions , Virtual selves , Guilds , Lore , RP , (Roleplaying) All the World’s a Stage All the World’s a Stage: The guild hall originally appeared on WoW.com on Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink