Sebaya Keto posted Jan 18, 12
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Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of The Darker Side of Life; the SWTOR-RP weekly column where we discuss the prevailing RP issues of the day and take your opinions on them. For the past several months, I've taken your suggestions on topics from a wide variety of categories. Some of them are fairly static, others like our discussion on companions in roleplay were predictions, done before the launch of The Old Republic, based on what we knew about the game at that time. In this week's article, we're going to revisit several old topics with fresh opinions, both from old members who may have read the originals when they were first published, and fresh faces who have joined us recently, all to answer one question: how has the launch of The Old Republic changed your opinion on roleplay?
Companions aren't the only thing we'll be discussing though. Server communities was another hot topic we touched on. Many players voiced their opinions on separate servers for timezones, or RP-PvP, or even keeping everyone together. Now we'll look into how things have turned out in the first month of the game. Combat solutions, the classic dice, duel, and the emote debate can never truly be settled, but it varies by game depending on how the players feel about the options a developer provides. Lastly, we'll touch on a more recent topic, being our discussion of RP hotspots and how players are using or abusing them. Join me in this very special edition of The Darker Side of Life as we take a trip back and look at how getting to play The Old Republic has changed your thoughts on roleplay topics, if at all.
Sebaya Keto posted Nov 9, 11
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In this week's edition of The Darker Side of Life, we delve into the dark side of character creation using outside lore. Making a character can be difficult. As we discussed in the Mary Sue article, it can be easy to go off the rails. You might think looking to other fantasy or Sci-Fi sources might be an easy way of getting some inspiration, but is it really the best idea?
On one hand it can be a great way to get inspiration for a character that breaks the mold of traditional Jedi and Sith, but once again we find ourselves asking the question, where do you draw the line? Inspiration is different then ripping characters directly out of another lore source. Malcom Reynolds from Firefly is a great inspiration for Smugglers, but when they start adopting all his mannerisms and using quotes he made, has it gone too far?
As if things weren't already complicated enough, Star Wars has been around for so long that legitimate writers in the Extended Universe have already cannibalized outside lore for their own books. Have you ever heard of Star Dragons in Star Wars? Would you want to RP with one in The Old Republic? We'll be diving into this, and be sure to let us know what you think in the comments section, but for now, read on!
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