Roleplaying (RP) means you behave ingame as if you are your character. This requires thats you think of the history / background, emotions and appearance of your character. The most important aspect of roleplaying is communication with other players. You communicate as much as possible according to the Tolkien lore in the /say and /emote channels as if you are your character (Human, Elf, Hobbit or Dwarf). It allows you to play this game on another level then just hack-and-slash and (if wanted) it allows the development own plotlines.
We are a medium roleplaying kinship. This means that we encourage roleplaying, but that we will not enforce RP on our members. Therefore, we have members with roleplaying skills varying from n00bs to hardcore RP-ers. The only thing we do expect, is that you communicate in-Character (IC) in the /say and /emote channels. Kinship chat is completely Out-of-Character (OOC). Our kinmeets (every thursday in the kinhouse) are always held in in-Character (RP).
You can find a good introduction / tutorial to what roleplaying is in the library / roleplaying . Not experienced in roleplay? No problem, we can teach you the basics.
Since we think RP is important, we have a special RP Officer. You can ask the RP Officer all your questions about roleplaying and if needed, RP Officer Morielen can provide RP workshops. She is always developing new kin-wide RP plots in which members can participate.
There are also contacts with individual roleplayers on the server (strong connection with the Elven RPcommunity). This allows Rangers to participate in big RP events, organized by other kins/players.
We organize both Action RP ans well as Social RP events. Since we are a kinship where questers meet roleplayers, action RP events are perfectly suited for our kinship. We had a few big events in the past: The first of these series was held in January 2009 and was directed at liberating Morielen's Brother, Alanlasse, from the hands of the Iron Crown. 24 Roleplayers stormed the Angmar Fortress Bail Boglakh and managed to liberate the brother, fighting their way through custom mobs, specially spawned for this event by two Game Masters from Codemasters, who supported this event. In May 2009, we had a second action-RP event: A Call for Aid II - Saving Alancala - the second twin brother was saved from the hands of the Iron Crown in Annuminas. The latest kinwide RP plot is called "The Key of Union". In these RP plots, one player sets the circumstances but all kinmembers can contribute to the story with ideas. This way, an original story develops with unexpected twists. Usually these plots comprise social RP, scouting quests, small skirmishes and they usually end in a big finale: a grand action RP event.
Next to action RP, we have a lot of social RP events, like the weekly kinmeet on thursdays, in character weddings (we have had 2 kin weddings so far: two Elven marriages), festival visits and sometimes big parties (like our one-year anniversary party in July 2009, where 50-60 players attended).
Action stills from the RP-event "Saving Alanlasse", January 2009
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