[metalchick]

Hi I'm new here and I would like to know if there are there such thing as RP-PVE servers ... if there is then would somebody tell me their opinion on which server you find the most RP in and the best RP (Tell me for PVP-RP too pls)

[DoctorJest]

Originally Posted by metalchick Hi I'm new here and I would like to know if there are there such thing as RP-PVE servers ... if there is then would somebody tell me their opinion on which server you find the most RP in and the best RP (Tell me for PVP-RP too pls)

Wiccana is where most of the RPers hang out on the PVE servers. It's the "unofficial RP-PVE server" since there isn't an official one.

[Enoseph]

Yes, Wiccana is the way to go.

[thisistotalcrap]

Since the “60s” I’ve been a longtime fan of the Robert E. Howard Conan series. Then until Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures came along an extensive Role-Player of John Norman's "Gor” online chat Role Play. And chat because to my knowledge Gor’s never been put to a type of game form as Funcom has done with AOC. So Myself I'd actually like to see an Age of Conan Role-Play, Player Vs Player (PVP) site. Official or Unofficial it wouldn't matter to me if it would contain both elements of the "Gor" chat Roleplay. That being Role-Play as a true character of the time and place that would behave accordingly along with the ability to challenge/fight/duel other game players. Yep a site like that would suit me to a T. Ahem, that's long as the players names stay realistic as in Howard's Hyborian times. For even on the Age of Conan alleged Role Play Wiccana server there's some pretty outrageous/hilarious names that never in a million years would've been thought of or in all likelihood even used in Conan's times. I mean let's imagine this big rough, tough barbarian in Howard's Cimmeria taking his equally tough but currently pregnant barbarian wench in arms and saying: "Say Candifra my love, if it's a boy let's name him "I'vegotanitchyarse" (I’ve got an itchy arse) or if a girl “Iwantyerballsferearrings." (I want yer balls for earrings) What do ya say huh?" Naw see it just wouldn't happen. And in a true Role Play site/environment it wouldn't happen either. Geeze had anyone on the "Gor" RP site used names like that they would’ve been laughed and pestered out of the game because plain and simple that's not Role Play:

role playing (also role play)
*noun, the acting out of a particular role, either consciously (as a technique in psychotherapy or training) or unconsciously (in accordance with the perceived expectations of society).

So Indeed in Conan’s time a true Role Player acting as a person of those times would act, speak and use the language and customs of the times in order to deal or interact with one another. While in neither the alleged RP, PVE Wiccana nor PVE, PVP Tyranny site do I find any of the players doing any such thing. In both sites I’ve found players utilizing characters that yes look the part of the times. (Naturally since that’s all the character creation aspect of the game offers) Yet the attitudes, culture, vocabulary and posturing remain the same as those of modern time people playing in an era when such language and customs did not yet exist.

For instance in John Norman’s “Gor” RP women, (girls, as all are girls, not referred to as women except in rare cases) are slaves, sluts, kajira, all appropriate names for any “girl.” And truly when a man (Master) speaks to one the “girl, kajira, slut,” whatever the man chooses to address her by goes to her knees and reply’s “yes Master, or no Master.” That’s unless of course something is asked of her which requires more than that. And always the “girl” refers to herself in the third person, never the primary. There is no “I, me, or mine in a “girls’ vocabulary. So if a man tells a girl (who because she is a “girl” is also automatically a slut, slave, kajira, again all appropriate terms for addressing her), “slut, Go and fetch me a flagon of mead.” Immediately the kneeling slut, kajira, slave, girl” would reply: “A girl will do so at once Master.” Whereupon she will rise, bow, step back three times, then hurry to do the Master’s bidding. Such is how it is on Gor. And such is adhered to vigilantly in order to maintain legitimate Role Play. Yet again there is no such vigilance, nor adherence to the customs, mores, attitudes or much anything else in the way of Hyborian Role Play on the Age of Conan sites. Not that I’ve found anyway. No expressions of the times such as “Crom’s bloody ax woman did you not see the vagabond meant to rob and **** you?” nor any appropriate explicative have I ever seen used in any instance that would require it. All I can guess is the common idea of Role Play here on AOC forums must differ by some vastness to my own. Either that or I’m really missing something somewhere.