Post by Azherae on 2021-06-15 14:40:14
There are no obvious current tools for Roleplay beyond the same standard things that Vhaeyne has talked about.
It would be more accurate to say that Ashes, as it is, is fully baked into being an RP tool.
It's difficult to explain this fully without the visual NDA lifted. The environments and spaces in the game, along with the intended methods for the economy (defeating monsters who drop things that you use, rather than just easy money) and the way that the quests and NPCs are set up, all drive a situation where your immersion can remain unbroken for long periods.
You don't have to do anything. They don't have to do anything more than add the Taverns. Nearly nothing else is required. You walk, and you 'are yourself and at the same time your character', and you can blend them as much as you do or don't want to happen.
You meet someone in the world and you take them at face value, and unless they push back and refuse to be taken for 'the entity they have chosen to play as', you probably won't break your immersion.
Like I said, it's really hard to explain. If you walk past a certain area with a person fishing and you ask them 'what is past here in these ruins?' and they know, and answer, you've had an RP interaction at least a bit.
If you were looking for... idk, some crystal that grows on a creature, and you ask 'have you seen this creature, I'm looking for the crystals from them', that person could answer 'they're down there', or 'be careful, the person who collects those is territorial', or 'we collect so much of those, you should be able to buy them in town'.
A spiderweb worth. 'Tools' are not really likely to be a focus due to being so unnecessary for many of the interactions.
"They're coming through the South gate! You, man the ballista, we'll hold them off!"
Roleplayers should be fine because if they don't push on other non-roleplayers, the game itself has no obvious incentives for a non Roleplayer to break immersion. Aside from 'declaring that you're pathetic and asking your question in terms of the game is cringe', of course.
And you can just imagine that person to be crazy and touched by the Corruption.
It would be more accurate to say that Ashes, as it is, is fully baked into being an RP tool.
It's difficult to explain this fully without the visual NDA lifted. The environments and spaces in the game, along with the intended methods for the economy (defeating monsters who drop things that you use, rather than just easy money) and the way that the quests and NPCs are set up, all drive a situation where your immersion can remain unbroken for long periods.
You don't have to do anything. They don't have to do anything more than add the Taverns. Nearly nothing else is required. You walk, and you 'are yourself and at the same time your character', and you can blend them as much as you do or don't want to happen.
You meet someone in the world and you take them at face value, and unless they push back and refuse to be taken for 'the entity they have chosen to play as', you probably won't break your immersion.
Like I said, it's really hard to explain. If you walk past a certain area with a person fishing and you ask them 'what is past here in these ruins?' and they know, and answer, you've had an RP interaction at least a bit.
If you were looking for... idk, some crystal that grows on a creature, and you ask 'have you seen this creature, I'm looking for the crystals from them', that person could answer 'they're down there', or 'be careful, the person who collects those is territorial', or 'we collect so much of those, you should be able to buy them in town'.
A spiderweb worth. 'Tools' are not really likely to be a focus due to being so unnecessary for many of the interactions.
"They're coming through the South gate! You, man the ballista, we'll hold them off!"
Roleplayers should be fine because if they don't push on other non-roleplayers, the game itself has no obvious incentives for a non Roleplayer to break immersion. Aside from 'declaring that you're pathetic and asking your question in terms of the game is cringe', of course.
And you can just imagine that person to be crazy and touched by the Corruption.