Special Ruleset Server: Roleplay

[Serakan]

I have the CRAZIEST idea for a D&D-based game. Make a server that actually promotes (gasp) roleplay. It seems the game is about ready for a new server. Has this concept ever even been discussed?

This server really seems like it would embody the spirit of D&D and attract a more mature audience to the server, and have the added benefit of discouraging generic player names and guild names.

The saddest thing about DDO, and why it's really nothing like D&D, is that there is absolutely no roleplay in this game or even an attempt to promote and encourage it.


It's ironic that in a game that stylizes itself after the longest running RPG in the world, there is absolutely no RP. heh

[KillEveryone]

There really isn't much freedom to RP. You run the quest once then to try and RP it again just isn't very RPish.

If there was a way to have customizable dungeons, RP would be a bit more possible. You still don't have a live DM to umpire. You may want to use the alternative method of breaking a door, an axe should be able to chop them, but with the game, if the door isn't programmed to break, it isn't going to break no matter what you do. How many doors are really going to have a magical force field...such as in a sewer...that keeps it from breaking?

I'm also not into another server with specific rules. If we had an RP server, the permadeath people that have been asking for one would be up in arms for not having a permadeath server.

[toaf]

i would SOOOOOoooo play on a permadeath server if once someone dies in game the char is unplayable. like hardcore diablo, I know lag sucks but lag is the hardest monster of anygame. but for the RP stuff ya its kinda hard to rollplay if you have to run a quest 100 times

[Memnir]

With prominent Role Play and Permadeath guilds on every server, it's really not necessary to make a server dedicated to a certain niche style of gameplay. The options exist, all you need to do is avail yourself of them and be disciplined enough to abide by their rules.

It's frankly not in Turbine's best interests to create a server for niche styles anyways. Those servers would be vastly underpopulated, as RP and PD are not wildly popular - even though they have very hardcore and dedicated fans. Also, Turbine does not officially endorse either optional rule-set... and any server they dedicate to any given rule-set would need to have Turbine define what exactly the rules would be. And I bet that there would be a lot of cries from folks who enjoy that style of play accusing Turbine of doing it wrong.

Besides, once you start fragmenting the player-base, where does it stop? It would then be all too easy to justify a "noob server" and a "Vets server" - or a "powergamer/zerg" server and a "casual & slow paced" server... and so on.

Best to keep the servers as appealing to as wide an audience as possible - and keep the optional playstyles to guilds on those servers.

That's my opinion, anyways - your mileage may vary.

[Lorien_the_First_One]

I believe you may want to ask Merlask about the availability of roll play on existing servers. I hear one server even has speakers by the Marketplace Bank to announce events.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asauN...next=1&index=9

[Serakan]

I see what you guys are saying. Makes total sense.