Hi Dark, I suppose its just all how a person approaches the game. As I said for myself weather I am playing Srith, Core Exiles, or a mud like Alter Aeon I still try to roll play. Probably because since moving to Millersburg I haven't had any group to roll play with so I do it virtually through online games which suits me.
In fact, I can remember when joining Alter Aeon I was very annoyed that the name of my main character was taken by someone else. I have played that same character on a couple of different muds and online games like Srith so wanted her to be in Alter Aeon too. Character is very important to me and although I know it was not intentional I felt like someone had stolen my character identity. I suppose if I gave her a last name or a clan name that might not have happened, but I ended up starting over from scratch with a new character for Alter Aeon simply because it wasn't possible to use my existing character. Cheers! On 6/18/12, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tom. > > Well during online games, muds etc is a little different, sinse quite often > > the people I've seen called captain kirk, frodo, doctor who etc won't > actually behave like their characters, they just chose the name because it > was one they liked, and themed their gear around it. > > indeed I've seen players called doctor who, bilbo and james T kirk on ce > (darren is actually playing James T kirk I believe), but this is more of a > homage to the character, than an rp situation. > > Myself, I don't really get into rp and backstory when I'm playing characters > > in an online game, sinse usually I'm more interested in interacting with the > > game, it's quests and mechanics than any sort of creative rp experience. > That is why I usually always call my characters dark or dark empathy, which > > is as much a personal name to me these days as Luke is. > > I'll occasionally do some sort of running theme with naming things, so my > ships in core exiles have been first the soprano, then the metso, then the > alto, and now the counter tenor (I hope I don't run out of voices before I > run out of ship upgrades!), but I don't generally attempt to rp, sinse as > far as I am concerned it is just me personally playing the game, doing > quests etc, ---- born out by the fact that often the quests and actions in > such games are pretty standard heroic ones anyway. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
