Roleplay - How does it work around here?

I suppose it depends what is more prevalent, the spoken part or the emoted part. If there's more spoken, and the action is fairly minor, then *****. Otherwise, italics.

I'd just like to say I use asterisks for *emphasis* in spoken text. Emoting in local with asterisks *does* sound weird to me, but it hardly ruins the game for me.

i never knew rping existed in coh

I'm with Mondo on the Kheldian thing. I won't berate anyone RPing their squid as a centaur, dragon, or faerie (three real examples of Kheld-abuse I've encountered) but I usually will politely remove myself from their presence and RP with other people instead. Am I the bad roleplayer for refusing to MUSH with them, or are they the bad roleplayer for insisting on playing a character that doesn't fit the AT they're playing?

Of course now that I've posted this and read Eisregen's posts about Peacebringer angels I want to make a Peacebringer that /thinks/ they're an angel. I'm sure it's already been done though - along with the Warshade that thinks they're a demon.

I do, however, use asterisks sometimes when emoting something while on a team, in a mission - and thus my teammates are very likely to be /just/ out of range of the emote even while in the same room. I usually emote normally with ; (the even shorter than "/em" shortcut) when participating in local RP.

can we all get back to pretendy fun games now?

good luck finding rpers to have fun with! Welcome to virtue. the servers are back up!

Both of my kheldians are new, merged, personalities. I don't play 'em much, but neither of them is either the original person or the original person plus a sidekick.

But I still don't see a problem with ignoring the flavor text if the Kheldian game mechanics are the best fit for your character. It doesn't seem like it'd come up often (say, the whole forms thing, which is awfully specific), but if it does, great, run with it.

To create a character, I come up with a concept, then look to see which game mechanics best model that concept, then I make the character accordingly. If that turns out to mean that the best implementation of a character who isn't really a Kheldian at all uses the Kheld rules, or that the best implementation of a character who isn't really Arachnos at all uses the Widow rules, then fine, that's what I'll use.

My PB started as two individuals, but they've merged over time (as the bond has grown, the human has gotten over some of his issues, etc) and now they really are mostly one composite being. This was actually a plot point when they started dating someone, as they wanted to make sure she wasn't just seeing/interested in the human. (Turns out she was fascinated by the Kheldian aspects too. The real dealbreaker turned out to be the Catholic "no 'test driving' before marriage" thing...)

To the OP: Welcome to Virtue, I hope you like it here.

In every multi-player online game I've been in, the RP in the gathering spot (usually a bar or a public square) tends to be the most melodramatic and shallow. It's there for when you want an audience for your hijinks or to get your foot in the door and get noticed by other RPers, at which point it's common to form up into a more select playgroup and go off by yourselves (thus, alas, becoming invisible to anyone who isn't in the group). This pattern even applied to some of the LARPs I was on staff for, with the the "adults" sequestering themselves in backrooms for dramatic politicking and leaving everyone else - the "children" - to amuse themselves and act out wildly.

Wow, good advice on RP from Mondo. I don't think anyone was more shocked than I.

I have a tab that's both Local and Emotes, so that nothing gets lost when I log it (except positional stuff, but one hopes that'll be accompanied by at least an emote).