Good thread idea. I actually have a question, so I'll get us started.

How do you justify using the super OP heirloom gear without saying "this was my father's/mother's *insert item type here* and he/she left it to me when he/she died and stuff" or making your character have a very Mary-Sue backstory?

I ask this because I'm currently rolling a draenei warrior with all the gear and my explanation is that he claimed the axe from the first demon (a felguard) that he killed by himself, and he discovered the armor (shoulders/chest) in tomb that was disturbed by the Exodar's crash. They've been "enchanted" to increase in power as he gains experience. At 60, he'll have a second Bloodied Arcanite Reaper ready for him. Just want suggestions on how to make it interesting yet not use the obvious, over-done explanations.

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Well i don't think gear always needs a justification but sure your ideas seem fair enough, i mean just because they last gameplay wise to max level, doesn't mean they need to OP as hell in the lore. ^^ I mean some people like their Trolls with minimal armor and tribal stuff but they don't roleplay as low statted noobs.

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This goes under "World of Warcraft discussion", as far as I'm concerned.

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Co-creator of UFS, a joint urban fantasy setting.

Someone pm'ed me a question on where to ask about RP stuff, and since this is the only forum that really deals with RP and fan fics, I figured it belonged here more than in a speculative/update forum like the WoW Discussion one.

Really I just see RPing as a form of group fan fic, so why not have an area to develop and solidify the characters here.

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Rationalizing the irrational since 2005.

If my character is twenty-one by the time the events of WoTLK rolls by (So thirty years after WC1, I THINK) it would be logical to be born in Westfall? Or would he have had to been born in Loraedon because of the displacement orc's caused during the First War?

EDIT:My character is a human, of course.

Don't think of it just for World of Warcraft roleplaying. It could work for anything too.

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Okay then.

In the first D&D group I participated in, my character got a Charisma value of 6 or 7, so I explained that by saying that he was deformed. I planned his backstory around that by saying that the religious authorities in his hometown had thought his mother was having sex with demons and burned her at stake. The priest responsible for the execution was to be a personal nemesis of mine, a Lawful Good cleric as a villain.

Do you guys think the cleric's alignment should have changed from Lawful Good to something else when he burned the mother at stake, even if he didn't know any better?

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Oman...

I dunno if I should post up my characters back stories or not. My first RP character was made....noobishly. I had no clue about the lore when I started.

I have retconned him so much and now he is retired. But I played him for nearly 3 years...

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Short and simple history of Avion.

Born in GLORIOUS AZEROTH. Family migrated north. Wars happen. Avion enlisted at 14(HE WAS BIG FOR HIS AGE!) Nearly dies during Strat. War ends, his age gets him kicked out of the army so he doesn't go to draenor. He formally joins up in the army years later. Nothing of note until his unit follows old Jaina across the sea. He survives the third war yadda yadda, doesn't know about what happened to the Northern kingdoms though. So he goes to Stormwind, finds out and goes back to Lordaeron. While walking through sorrow hill he's ambushed by Scourage. There are too many to fight, only Anya ARRIVING JUST IN TIME!!!!!!!! Saves him. She used light, he saw how effective it was, he becomes Paladin down south. When he returns to the Plaugelands, he retrieves his family sword the Skyblade from his family's old house. Much hilarity ensues about killing them undead. He eventually meets Kirius in the ruined Scarlet town way after that.


I still have no idea how to sort out being Nat Pagle's identical twin though.

Okay....I am doing it.

Remember what I said though, I was new to lore, new to RP in Warcraft terms and an all around noob. My orc's name is Broxigan Lok'rosh. And yes, I know. Broxigar? I had just read War of the Ancients before hopping over to RP and he was by far my favorite character. So, anyway. The story helps it sort of make some sort of sense. Also, there is time discrepancies I had been tweaking with the ever changing timeline.

be gentle.

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since otherwise the troll would starve

The cleric clearly should have burned you character too and yes he would be lawful good since he has no doubt that he is doing good since the societhy he lives in percieves in the majority that such action is what makes a holy man

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Yeah, but accourding to the rules of alignment, it is affected by your actions, not what you mean by them. For example, the orcs in Warhammer would count as Chaotic Evil because they kill tons of people even though they don't mean anything by it. So, would this mean that ignorance is not an ethical defence?

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Co-creator of UFS, a joint urban fantasy setting.

It worked in the dark ages sure why not

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WotLK is 27 years after WC1. The Horde was defeated around 7 years after WC1 (guessing that there's some gap between the end of WC2 and the beginning of WC2x, six months or so). By WC2x, reconstruction of Stormwind City had begun and it was a large, but rudimentary, camp.

So no, most likely your character is not old enough to have been born in Westfall. Your character was probably born in Lordaeron, or perhaps as one of the first humans born in the new Stormwind City. Westfall, though, I'm guessing wasn't resettled for at least a little while after SW.

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"Damn, snowcone, what were you for Halloween, a bitch? You best be ready for this shit, Cranberry Juice, cuz you bout to get FUCKED." -L Dubba E

Not accourding to newer lore: Now we have a three-months-long Second War with the Horde being one whole army.

In Beyond the Dark Portal, Stormwind is a city already by the time the book begins, with a completed cathedral.

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Have I ever mentioned I hate the timeline changes?

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Co-creator of UFS, a joint urban fantasy setting.

Blech.

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"Damn, snowcone, what were you for Halloween, a bitch? You best be ready for this shit, Cranberry Juice, cuz you bout to get FUCKED." -L Dubba E

So just to be safe, should I just say that my character was born in a little house in near Stormwind? He's supposed to have been born to peasants.

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Bloodsail Admiral representin'.

Thinking my warrior should start to migrate away from the naaru (he's young, he's seen very little of their power, hasn't experienced the terror of the Legion) and start following the Titans. I am thinking he'd latch on to Golganneth; a warrior with a good sense of humor that would rather not destroy things, but will do so with a smile. It seems to fit him pretty well.

How would one begin to follow this path?

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Dwarfs.

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They prefer the term "little people".

But yeah, I was thinking that. He's a scribe, so he has a grasp on glyphs and runes. So the dwarves introducing him to titan lore seems to be the way to go. This will fit in come Cataclysm when they add Archaeology and everything.

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Why not add your Ulduar raids? Say you were one of the willing hired merceneries for Brann Bronzeberd's army and then your Warrior met this fascinating lad/gal who thaught everything he knew about the Titans and that made your warrior all fascinated about it and so on.

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Oh, I hadn't thought of that. Ulduar is like my favorite raid ever. I con't belive I over looked it.

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Maybe you were just too loothorny for the place to think of the lore!!!!!!! >: (

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On this warrior, yeah. On my mage, I fucking ate it up.

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