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[Myroc]

I have played a good deal of MMORPGs over the years. Yet i have found none that really embodies the "Role-playing" aspect of it. Can anyone recommend one?

[Wiles]

The best online roleplaying experience I had was playing Neverwinter Nights. The game allows for people to DM to make a truly interactive story environment. The problem is finding the diamond in the rough - there are a lot of servers and a lot of them aren't great. I haven't played NWN2 online much, but I assume that there is a decent roleplaying community to be found there too.

[Myroc]

The only problem with NWN is that i do not have the expansions, and i do not have intentions of buying them, which limits me to about 3% of the servers.

[Mephisto]

I would think your best bet would be a MUD, but I think the good ones are a dying breed.

[Virtz]

Some Ultima Online free shards theoretically enforce roleplay (some to the point of being selective about who can register), although how that looks in practice, I do not know.

[Soulwynd]

MUDs like always, and UO shards as mentioned. As for actual modern mmos, you can try City of Heroes in the unofficial roleplay server and join one of the roleplay supergroups.

[Sowelu]

I would think your best bet would be a MUD, but I think the good ones are a dying breed.

Thirded.  If you're mostly after roleplay, even consider a MUSH.

[Tormy]

Hm....I can't think of any to be honest...but perhaps you should ask about it on this forum:
http://www.onrpg.com/boards/

[lumin]

The only problem with NWN is that i do not have the expansions, and i do not have intentions of buying them, which limits me to about 3% of the servers.

I played on Dasaria 2 for a while.  It's one of the best NWN 2 servers out there (and very role-play heavy).  It doesn't require any expansions at all - just a single file download for content.  You can get NWN 2 on ebay for under $20.

[Cthulhu]

There's a MUD called Armageddon that's seriously roleplay heavy, and has a pretty unique gameworld.  Not for the faint of heart though, the roleplayers are so hardcore they'd scare me into submission.

[MrWiggles]

Oh yea, you'll want to stick with Mu*s.

I've owned on but had step down being head wiz. I couldn't play my own game.

It isn't dying out, there always new muds and mu*s being listed on mudconnect.

I would stay away from those which have have little autominuous creature, and go with one that are that are for player and player interaction.

[Muz]

Armageddon MUD is the best. They're newbie friendly and will love you just for trying to get into the game.

Plenty of hacking and slashing and backstabbing, and around 50-80% of the world has been created by player action, including one city that was conquered by an opponent player city-state, had player rebels, spies, and mindbenders, then gained freedom thanks to players.

So, yeah, it's awesome. It is extremely hardcore, though. Learning curve is steeper than DF. It's got even more depth than DF, IMHO, and well worth it.

[MrWiggles]

I've heard of the place. It theme wasn't was for me though. Very good, but the internal politics of the place, I heard can be dejecting from the rp.

[Muz]

I've heard of the place. It them wasn't was for me though. Very good, but the internal politics of the place, I heard can be dejecting from the rp.

What, Armageddon? I've been playing it for a while and I don't see much politics. Heh, the politics are as annoying as DF, though. Always some noble trying to kill another and some other one making ridiculous demands. If you stay as the lowly unranked soldier who avoids attention, like I did, you should be perfectly happy and it is fun playing as a lowly soldier.

[MrWiggles]

I was on a great very small b5 mu*, there were only 45 regular members.

It was great to my character as a street erchin, then he worked his way up to be a legit power source in gaming universe.

Great memories...

I had one character a high action martial theme place, start out as a smart ass orphan hero type, he became a responsible teacher and respectable hero. I had forth general students. My students students students, teaching new students. It was so cool, to sit in an watch the rp, as I can my idea being morphed from person to person. Great game. I literally cried when he died though...