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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...
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...
Impressions of Project Gorgon from an Asheron’s Call player
It's finally time for me talk about Project Gorgon as a released product. As you might have guessed, I was avoiding the game prior to launch....
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...
Hyperspace Beacon: The case for mature-themed guilds in the SWTOR community
I am a huge advocate for guilds that can remain friendly to the under 18 crowd. One of my favorite Star Wars: The Old...
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...
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...
In appreciation for post-apoc Dereth: The life and times of Asheron’s Call 2
On the left in the screenshot above is a windmill in the town of Cragstone in Asheron's Call. On the right is, well, the...
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:...
World of Warcraft preps new site, fixes the cross-realm RP mess
The World of Warcraft site has gone through a number of changes and overhauls over the years, so don't act too surprised to see...
World of Warcraft weathers roleplay and silencing controversies
All is not well following World of Warcraft's recent pre-expansion patch earlier this week. Two controversies are rocking the game resulting from the update...
Desert Nomad: Immersion, atmosphere, and roleplaying in Black Desert
Hello friends, and welcome back to Desert Nomad, your more or less biweekly source of ramblings that are almost guaranteed to be at least...
EverQuesting: The absurd number of things to do in EverQuest II, part II
Have you finished up everything there was to do in EverQuest II from last week's list? Neither have I. That first half alone is...
Guild Chat: Fitting a character to a new roleplaying guild
Welcome along to another issue of Guild Chat, my cozy wee corner of Massively OP in which we get together to help readers in...
