Comments on: Shared Topic: Do Your Alts Know Each Other?

By: shoryl

shoryl — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:55:26 +0000

My partner and I play WoW together a lot. And we both have Altitis. Periodically, our paladins will talk about our other paladins. My old main paladin (Taoi) is the big sister of my current main paladin (Shoryl) and my partner’s old main (Ari) ran around with Taoi all the time. So Shoryl knows both of them. Sona, my partner’s current main paladin runs around with Shoryl a lot, so she knows both Taoi and Ari.
Our characters definitely get personalities. We don’t RP in game, but since our computers are right next to each other, sometimes we just drop into a little bit of RP chatter as we play.
It’s particularly funny when I get on my hunter, who sortof knows about this Shoryl person, but has met Sona. (We frequently use each other’s toons to move things quickly between characters.)

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:30:45 +0000

I find it hard to believe that there were aspects of the relationships between your characters that you hadn’t thought of! They seem to be so thought-out and intricate.

Thank you for suggesting this topic! It was really a lot of fun to write about.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:16:01 +0000

I have LARPed before, so I get some dork points too ^_^ I was never able to get into it though. The LARPers in my community were just too weird. And not weird is a sexy kind way. Weird as in obsessive and deliberately creepy.

I also was far more interested in chasing people around with squishy weapons than I was in pretending to have a reason to chase people around with squishy weapons.

Secretly, I kind of envy those who really love RPing in game. My best friend IRL is a hardcore RPer and the stuff he thinks up and experiences in games is incredible. I suspect the satisfaction and amusement he gets out of games is far superior than the satisfaction and amusement I get out of games.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:08:45 +0000

Those must be some memorable parties! The meetups at Team Ratshag HQ, I mean, not the funerals. Well, actually, I bet the funerals are sometimes too.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:06:41 +0000

I never stopped to think about that, but yeah, it’s they’re on Mailbox Speed Dial. Mailbox Top 10 list.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:05:46 +0000

It’s true that the crafting aspect brings characters closer together. I thought of my characters more as a family (or at least a team) a few years ago when I was trying to max professions and level alts. But since I pretty much just focus on my pally now, the others have lost a lot of importance. I don’t do a whole lot with them, so they’ve become nothing but general citizens of Azeroth who sometimes go on exciting vacations.

Good post BTW!!

By: kamaliaetalia

kamaliaetalia — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:10:28 +0000

I'm glad my topic inspired you! Your thoughts about why your characters don't know each other helped me decide how to describe some of the relationships between my characters that I hadn't thought much about yet.

By: Oestrus

Oestrus — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:41:37 +0000

See, I love roleplaying. I used to be a LARP player. Major dork points there! Though I never started getting into RP in WoW until recently. I found myself wanting to do it a LOT with my lowbie warlock and possibly any other alts that I may decide to level.

Maybe it’s because I felt like the environment or the world wasn’t doing enough to immerse me into it, so I was searching for more immersion within. That could be it.

I plan on creating a character in Rift and leveling a handful of toons on there to see what I enjoy and what I may take to max level. I have the urge to RP on there, too. Not too much, like where I’m speaking in acents and things like that. But enough to where I would think to myself “What would this character do?” or “Where would he/she want to go next?”

Little things like that.

By: Ratshag

Ratshag — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:35:51 +0000

Me and the alts, we gets tagether 2-3 times a month at the Team Ratshag Secret Headquarters in Booty Bay, drink some Uncle Bonechomper’s, sing some songs, swap some stories. Occasionally we runs inta each other here or there. And, when things go bad, we go to each others funerals.

By: Ngita

Ngita — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 01:30:14 +0000

Mine are all friends, mostly because of auto suggest on mail but still they are friends.