Finally got around to listening to the podcast. Just listened to the part about RP as I couldn't sit through the entire hour >.>.
I kinda liked what they talked about up until the whole "pausing to go to the bathroom" part. They mentioned how it's harder to do that in an MMO setting than at a D&D table setting. I strongly disagree and doubt anyone here has had any real trouble "pausing" RP in game when they need to afk for something (unless it's an extended afk or disconnect and even those can be worked around). I also disagreed with when he said that the lore already restricted his character. Lore really doesn't restrict a character that much save for preventing you from being royalty or something outlandish like that. If you want to RP being a bard and there's no bard class, you can still do it. It just takes a tad bit more creativity, which is what RPing is all about to begin with.
The written article hit on a lot of great points though.
I kinda liked what they talked about up until the whole "pausing to go to the bathroom" part. They mentioned how it's harder to do that in an MMO setting than at a D&D table setting. I strongly disagree and doubt anyone here has had any real trouble "pausing" RP in game when they need to afk for something (unless it's an extended afk or disconnect and even those can be worked around). I also disagreed with when he said that the lore already restricted his character. Lore really doesn't restrict a character that much save for preventing you from being royalty or something outlandish like that. If you want to RP being a bard and there's no bard class, you can still do it. It just takes a tad bit more creativity, which is what RPing is all about to begin with.
The written article hit on a lot of great points though.
