View Full Version : Role-Playing: Out of Character
Tiberius0000
07-11-2007, 12:56 PM
If you're playing in a "Role-Playing" group where everyone stays "In Character"during the quest, how do you communicate "Out of Character"? Do you only OoC in Tavern or /Sit to converse OoC...what is the most common way for a group to handle Out of Character discussion?
tihocan
07-12-2007, 10:29 AM
A common practice is to use (...) or ((...)) for OOC text.
Tiberius0000
07-12-2007, 11:41 AM
For the Chat window that works well, but how do you handle OOC in Voice Chat
tihocan
07-12-2007, 01:08 PM
For the Chat window that works well, but how do you handle OOC in Voice Chat
Unless otherwise specified, voice chat is always OOC (when in a RP group, try to keep voice restricted to quest-related stuff though, don't start talking about the latest movie you've seen).
Though I've been in a party once with a crazy barbarian doing RP over voice, in the beginnings of the game, he was awesome and a lot of fun :D
5footStep
07-12-2007, 01:33 PM
what I have seen most people do is use ( blah blah blah ) to indicate they are talking out of character. I have also seen (ooc blah blah blah. I will say I was confused for some time when people would send me tells that looked like this <blah blah blah>. I didn't realize the carrots meant they were using some crazy ol mindspeak or psionics or whatever..
personally when running quests I find it really hard to type to roleplay. I would much rather just use voice chat. Occasionally I will type.. but I try to spend more time surviving and fighting and typing to me gets in the way. I generally will type in quests for emotes more than anything. I wish I could find more ppl that want to quest and roleplay. My experience so far is I get the choice of roleplaying in a general setting {which seems like an awful lot of sittin around and I find that pretty hard personally} or running quests {which tend to start at the beginning with roleplay and then quickly deteriorate into basic nonrp questing}. Which leaves me roleplaying by myself in PUG where some of the people get it that I am roleplaying and probably the rest just think Im insane.
Sojourner
07-12-2007, 01:52 PM
Count up the number of RP guilds there are -- And you now have the number of different ways to community IC and OOC in the game. Think of a way it can be done, and someone is doing it.
We had an RP Group for awhile that was OOC in guild chat and party chat, and only the "say" channel was IC. Made it interesting in a dungeon - you get out of hearing range for a "say" and you could be missing something.
For voice - Some like voice off whenever RP'ing, some like voice to be OOC only with IC in text, some like voice to be IC only.
Best thing to do is use (OOC: how do you handle ic/ooc for voice and chat?) and then go with whatever their standard is. The () and OOC: should be generic enough that they can answer politely. If not, then find yourself another group.
Yvonne_Blacksword
07-12-2007, 01:56 PM
I tried roleplaying my old fighter over voice chat...He was supposed to be verbally challenged.
I would gunt and say gibberish when i got hit/hurt bad...
uhohahoh...like scooby do...
sigh.
Then it got too bad and my female voice said,"if you do that we will all die!"
Male dwarven fighter with an eyepatch did not match.
oh well. had to fall out of character.
Guess till that point they all thought i was really playing myself. Or just dumb.
It is funny to zerg when all you hurt is yourself...and you pack potions.
:rolleyes:
CaitMonster
07-12-2007, 10:30 PM
I tried roleplaying my old fighter over voice chat...He was supposed to be verbally challenged.
I would gunt and say gibberish when i got hit/hurt bad...
uhohahoh...like scooby do...
sigh.
Then it got too bad and my female voice said,"if you do that we will all die!"
Male dwarven fighter with an eyepatch did not match.
oh well. had to fall out of character.
Guess till that point they all thought i was really playing myself. Or just dumb.
It is funny to zerg when all you hurt is yourself...and you pack potions.
:rolleyes:
ROFLMAO I can see how that would get the party killed. :P they would all be laughing to hard.
tihocan
07-13-2007, 10:06 AM
If you really want to RP, get into an RP guild. It's not always easy to set up RP pugs.
Tiberius0000
07-13-2007, 02:38 PM
For all the replies.
PurdueDave
07-13-2007, 03:04 PM
Is there an /emote for crossing your arms?:D
Merlask
07-13-2007, 03:43 PM
For myself, I usually simply state 'out of character' followed by whatever I want to say over the voice chat
I very often use a different way of talking when I speak as Varro....more formal sounding than my normal way of talking, so that when I revert to speaking about real world things, it's a little more obvious, in addition to me saying 'out of character real quick... who's going to gencon in august'
For my mute character Uxor, you'd think I'd never use voice chat, but on the contrary, in the middle of the action, I usually just describe Uxor as if I were reading her emotes aloud. Once again, times when I have to revert to ooc talk, I say 'out of character' before whatever out-of-characterness I plan on doing
Everyone does have a different way of doing it, but the important part is that it must be apparent to the other players involved that you're talking out of character, so they don't have to suddenly boggle themselves going 'wait, what do you mean...oh right...you mean in real life...'
As for RP PUGs, we do that frequently in my neck of the woods. You'll find some servers are more hospitable to it than others. There are a lot of 'closet rpers' out there in DDO I find. They're usually too shy and think no one else will RP with them, and thus they just give up and surrender to powergaming min/max ooc lifestyle. If you post it, they will come.
Readily on Thelanis and Sarlona putting 'RP' in your LFM should stir you up an RP PUG.
Merlask
07-13-2007, 03:46 PM
Is there an /emote for crossing your arms?:D
Post Script: Yes actually. You can alter your emote text by typing after the command
for instance typing
/wait
makes your character cross their arms and tap your foot. The text that appears to the other players is "Varro waits" if I just type /wait.
buuuut
If I type
/wait crosses his arms
my character will do the arm crossing/tapping foot emote - as per 'wait' - but instead, to other players it reads as "Varro crosses his arms"
Typing description after /emote will overwrite whatever the default text is that normally displays with that emote. Just remember that the emote will always appear in third person, so you don't want to type
/wait I cross my arms
then it would come out to everyone as "Varro I cross my arms"
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