roleplaying
Massively Overthinking: The one about MMO roleplay servers
An MOP reader named Thierry recently pointed us to a brewing storm in the World of Warcraft Classic community: In a nutshell, the server...
Fallout 76 players have put a fellow player on trial for raiding
A dangerous raider has been captured after an assault on a raiding facility, which raises the question of what should be done with him....
Global Chat: MMO roleplaying explained for the rest of us
Game designer Brian Green has been on a writing streak as of late with a whole series of blog posts about roleplaying in MMORPGs....
Storyboard: Never forget that all MMO lore is made up
Let's take a trip back to the dewy slopes of June 2006, when Chris Metzen addressed the question of how the lore of the...
Storyboard: Exploring religion in MMOs
One of the things I wanted to do in bringing back Storyboard was to expand a little bit beyond just roleplaying to the stuff...
Storyboard: Stop whining and accept your MMO plotline
I'm going to let you in on a very big and also very obnoxious secret. All right? No one is going to like hearing...
Storyboard: On the art of verisimilitude in MMO roleplaying
Those of you who remember this column from Massively-that-was are invited to take a shot, as was the running joke. Because it turned out...
Storyboard: Can you diverge from lore in MMORPG roleplaying?
All right, this is new for me because most of my titles do not contain dirty lies right in the question used to kick...
Storyboard: What makes an MMORPG a good home for roleplaying?
Guess who's back.
I gave Star Wars: The Old Republic a lot of grief over the course of 2018 for the fact that its server merges...
Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR, a roleplay community divided
Much praise and hatred have been tossed at Star Wars: The Old Republic for its decision to focus more heavily on the single-player aspects...
Roleplay-centric Project Oasis World fails to fund
It has certainly been a rough summer for Kickstarter MMORPGs. On the heel of a pair of failed projects from last week comes the...
Today in why we can’t have nice things: How a No Man’s Sky griefer exploits design flaws to screw with communities
A No Man's Sky griefer purporting to roleplay an evil emperor, monologuing and all, decided to up his griefer game by taking it out of game and...
TERA Claw & Order exclusive: A suspect admits to attempted kidnapping and extortion, but not murder
Attention all sleuths and gumshoes! A mystery tipster shoved this dossier under our door last night. It appears to be a transcript of a...
World of Warcraft hosts a massive roleplaying event to celebrate the defeat of the Legion
If you think about World of Warcraft's Moon Guard server, you probably make some jokes about ERP in Goldshire and move on with your...
The Daily Grind: How important is roleplaying to MMORPGs?
It's not exactly a secret that one of my first loves in any MMORPG is roleplaying. The whole reason I have multiple alts in...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO to roleplay in as of 2018?
Half an eternity ago, my merry band of MMO PvPers and raiders ran headlong into a gang of roleplayers, and it changed my guild...
Elite: Dangerous player is reaching out to speak with the game’s inscrutable aliens
Remember that Star Trek: The Next Generation episode where the crew spent the entire episode tracking down and struggling to communicate with a destructive...
World of Warcraft saves an in-game tournament by disabling phasing
Players on Moon Guard have long hosted a week-long tournament event for all World of Warcraft roleplayers called the Tournament of Ages. It's filled...
Leaderboard: Where do you draw the line between griefing and roleplaying?
On the Morrowind subreddit a few days ago, a player was recounting a particular roleplay-slash-griefing episode on a hardcore-roleplay Ultima Online emulator. The player...
Hyperspace Beacon: Outside-the-box Star Wars The Old Republic gameplay
For some reason, this time of year always seems to be a down time in the activity of large-scale MMORPG development. Although Star Wars:...
