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d since mists and even then mainly bgs oh i did recognize a few people around wait i thought cardwyn was your only apprentice when did all this happen and does card know about this and i couldn t go more than a few feet without it being suggested that i check out various things sigh but i found some honor hold personnel at the bottom of the mage tower and i saw they could port me to the dark portal aha i can go to outland that ll work whiskey tango foxtrot what the hell is going on you know what i think it s smarter to just go back to the old lion s pride inn and call it a day ahh much better still there was one thing on my mind after the roleplaying post from the other day i was reminded that the old moon guard us server was where most alliance rp took place and yes i m quite aware of goldshire and the lion s pride inn s reputation well the last time i visited goldshire on moon guard i wasn t that impressed this was back in 2013 or so and some of the worst offenders of erp back then had been purged from the server so it wasn t what i d call busy still i ve seen enough youtube videos that show an active rp scene so i got curious and made a toon on moon guard just to see what s going on sorry but she s not named cardwyn i did check to see if deathwyn was available but alas it was already taken it actually took me about 10 15 minutes of hunting for available names that i liked before i got to this one i wasn t planning on doing any rp myself i don t have any rp addons installed on retail and if anybody were to whisper me i d politely decline hey it s their world and it s the proper thing to do well at least this looks normal full disclosure i ran back last night to get this screencap because i forgot to take one on sunday i did find actual people questing in northshire abbey so that s an improvement over what livona experienced instead of doing those initial quests i figured it was safe to run straight to goldshire and see what i could find remember the proverb be careful what you wish for because you might get it yeah about that holy crap i got over to the inn saw that and immediately logged for the day that was a bit overwhelming the inside if the inn had to have the most people i ve seen in one place in retail since early cataclysm maybe it certainly wasn t in mists because ysera us was pretty empty even with the server merges on area 52 us a 10 1 horde server i think everybody was either raid logging or just hanging out in the horde pandaria hub but since i never leveled a horde toon to max level that expansion i never made it there so i decided it couldn t have been that bad and that i just happened to show up at a specific event or something so i checked goldshire and the inn again tonight do i really want to know what your rates are for a room sir and stepping outside there was this i ran back to northshire abbey because it was a lot quieter and it was there that i discovered two things the first is that it s now a default that if someone whispers you it s put in a separate tab and two well i m almost 100 certain that person wasn t talking about enterprise resource planning i didn t respond because at first i wasn t sure how long that whisper had been there it could have been about 10 minutes old for all i knew and i ll be honest in that i should have known that sort of whisper would happen but did you see the size of that crowd given the mob inside i figured it would have been hard to pick me out especially without me having installed any rp addons and only running out of the place but a female toon still managed it in the minute or so i actually spent in goldshire this kind of puts a lie to the concept of if there s a crowd nobody is paying attention to you if there s a way to make my anxiety spike while playing a video game that was it well i guess you could say i finally found where the people are in retail when they re not sitting around wherever the endgame area is they re in goldshire on an rp server you have to be paying attention if you do this in classic because the defias and hostile animals lurking near the road could kill you in retail it s not very likely eta added the comment on the last graphic because i can t not see the business version of erp when i see that acronym posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels retail role playing wow sunday july 13 2025 does romance give you the squick well it does for me oh not in real life irl i m a softie who enjoys romance not necessarily romance novels mind you but i meant the concept itself yes yes i know somebody alert my wife i also don t mind having romance in video games because for me that s a personal choice if you want to romance an npc go ahead if you don t you don t what i meant was romance in pencil and paper rpgs although to a lesser extent romance between two players in an mmo as well this was sparked by a video that popped up the other day concerning d d and romance yes i follow ginny di s youtube videos no i didn t get into her videos from critical role but rather i stumbled on her channel when she progressed to other rpg topics the algorithm looked at my viewing history and thought you know there s this woman who dyes her hair that you might find insightful and here i am she does have some great and insightful comments on a variety of rpg topics and between her pointy hat stephanie plays games kelsey dionne bob world builder and several other 20s and 30s content creators i feel that our ttrpg hobby is in good hands for the future i guess the reason why i watched ginny s video was due to my own experience with romance in a d d game if you ve been around this blog for a while you might recall i was part of a long running d d 3 0 campaign as in a 20 year old campaign when our dm got together with us to hash out what the campaign would be about there were a few ground rules we decided upon low to mid level magic use the greek and egyptian pantheons for the campaign and world building some roleplaying in character but not pure amateur thespian hour and absolutely no romance that last one was a hard no from us players as we were all dating and or married and we really just wanted to focus on a campaign with no romantic escapades involved we ve had romantic subplots in our campaign back in college and when it s involving people who are actually dating irl who then break up it gets really ugly really fast therefore just keeping things platonic would make it easier for everybody we players figured that with the ground rules set we were ready to play things worked out okay for a while and outside of us using im to play this was 2001 2 after all things seemed to progress decently well after a couple of years however our dm began trying to slip in romantic subplots and the occasional conan esque nudity into the game we all knew our dm who was a bit of a horndog back in college so we just figured it was him being him and we didn t take the rather obvious bait we kind of kept things at bay until a new player joined the group for a few years he was a coworker of the dm and he wanted to play a bard you can see where this is going right yeah they both went there the bard started wanting to screw every woman he met and this began to wear on us this isn t what we wanted and we definitely didn t ask for it and it kept diverting us from the actual campaign then the dm started having npcs hit on my character and i began having to be more forceful in my nipping of those subplots in the bud the rest of us began talking among ourselves about whether we need to take a stand with the dm and then the problem solved itself the new player had to stop playing and just like that the division mostly evaporated mostly the dm still would try to sneak in some opportunities for romance here and there but we ignored them and kept the game focused on the campaign in the last few months of our campaign before it ended however the dm began to ratchet up the opportunities and the pg 13 nature of those encounters i won t lie and say otherwise but after 20 years we players had had enough there were several other things that contributed to our decision to want to end the campaign but one of the top complaints on our list was that the dm kept pushing the romance and sexual angles on us i think it needs to be said that we re all adults and we can handle adult themes however people have to buy into the concept of romance and shenanigans or you re risking a lot by trying to push it on people when they don t want it i personally would have to be in the right frame of mind to accommodate an rpg campaign with romance and i ll also freely admit that i am not an actor in that i would have issues separating the character s from the player s i probably could do it if i were in say a play or musical or something but in a ttrpg that d be harder okay that s tabletop rpgs but mmos hoo boy that s an entirely different kettle of fish if asmongold s your dad nixxiom i m a jelly doughnut outside of occasionally being hit on by some oversexed player i ve never been in a romantic situation with another mmo player before and you can t not realize that there s another player on the other end which separates it from npc romances such as the companion romances in swtor mmo rp romances are going to be with another character and the specter of erp and goldshire s lion s pride inn hovers over everything there s this too and yes i ve kept this from an old meme monday just because some people can make it work but i m almost completely certain that i can t but if you not me for certain want more detail about doing romance rp in mmos yes it s wow but applicable in all of them there s this i guess knowing my limitations is a good thing and that i m not planning on putting myself into a situation where they would get tested if you can handle it more power to you i think i ll just go do my own thing instead and leave the romance in mmos to y all oh and because i couldn t resist here now you ll never hear that old sonny and cher song the same way although i have made some attempts to check out the genre because the only way to know if you ll like it is to try it ironically enough i think that between the two of us i m the romantic one that doesn t mean that i m not as clueless as the next guy in trying to figure out if someone is hitting on me actually my son nicknamed mr oblivious or captain oblivious due to his cluelessness about such things is a chip off the old block spouses and significant others who are playing the other toon you re romancing kind of get a pass on this since you re obviously thinking of the other person who you re already romantically involved with they don t need me to tell them that but consider it just an observation that i m happy the next generation has taken the reins from us older folks and run with it in the same way that i m proud my kids have engaged with the hobby over the years for all of the get offa my lawn sort of behavior from the old guard who are as old or older than me i just wanted to get it out there that i m happy they re showing their love for the hobby and contributing to its overall success and maybe this year i ll get a chance to run into one of them at gen con it also goes without saying that some of the old guard have opened their arms to the new generation of content creators people like matt colville professor dm and baron de ropp could have circled their collective wagons and been assholes toward the new blood but they haven t and our hobby is all the better for it the dm was married to one of the players in fact if you re not an adult it goes without saying that parental guidance is strongly suggested my oldest once attended an rpg game session in high school with some acquaintances and all of the guys there tried to hit on her character and by extension her she got really creeped out and that was the end of that posted by redbeard at 6 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels d d memes music musings romance rpgs videos wow tuesday may 13 2025 what is valuable and who decides it is luke is the dark side stronger yoda no quicker easier more seductive from the empire strikes back okay after being a classic andy for what s likely the millionth time since roughly july 2014 i began to have some second thoughts what if i am not remembering things correctly what if what i like about classic wow has an analogue in retail what if i m letting my dislike of the state of the game over a decade ago color my opinions too much well the tl dr is that i decided to do something about it this screencap is obviously not when she was brand spanking new you d have thought i d have remembered to take an initial screenshot but nope i believe this is called putting my money where my mouth is for the record livona here was created on wyrmrest accord us an rp realm with a high population in the era of shared aka dynamically merged servers this may not mean much from wowrealmpopulation com wyrmrest accord has 10 5k active characters snapshot from wowrealmpopulation com as of may 11 2025 although given the current state and capability of retail wow to create innumerable alts this might represent only 500 individual accounts okay i m kidding but you never know as you can see wyrmrest accord is roughly 33 alliance so not a 50 50 split but decently sized enough that i ought to expect to see some bodies out and about look i m no dummy and wyrmrest accord has been around as an active server since 2009 so it s likely that i shouldn t expect that many people in any starter zone my previous foray into retail with new toons confirmed that but i decided i was going to try this for more than just a few minutes i figured i d go to a zone that i was intimately familiar with and one that hadn t changed since cataclysm elwynn forest it still feels weird entering into goldshire and seeing a flight point there i mean it s a 3 minute run up to stormwind so you re not saving that much time now i knew that the cataclysm changes meant things were different in elwynn as compared to the og vanilla version but i couldn t remember just how jarring things were therefore i decided to approach this as if i were brand new to the game and didn t go to exile s reach or did it once and wanted to start over with the original experience what would make sense what wouldn t how would i feel as i played the game i discovered very early on that i wasn t going to be able to remain objective because i did have opinions and those opinions came to the forefront from practically the 3rd or 4th quest you re kidding me right have you seen how full my health bar is and how little effort it took to revive you i mean look at the comment by the npc that i healed on the battlefield i had hardly even done anything in the game and i was being called a hero for a person who prefers irl to fly under the radar 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