Racism. More, please.

[Blaize]

It´s been a while since Itotia called Blaize a fooking beetch, must get together again some time.

[Touchseed]

Gnomes-Trolls

OHWTF "My wut big tusks u have!"

[Seraphim]

It's important to note that things are not always what they seem, when reading a few minutes of someone else's RP. It's both rude and presumptuous to say, "This Tauren and this Gnome are having a conversation! They haven't killed each other yet! Grrrr-lore-breaking-grr." without knowing the entire situation behind the conversation. There could be weeks of roleplaying going on under the surface, and good in-character reasons.

Both should certainly exist in this scenario, and I personally think romance between the races is just unrealistic for the most part, but the point remains: Assuming makes a you-know-what out of you-know-who.

[nwolowski]

Aww, thanks Blaize for saying this (CAUSE LIEK WHEN CRESSY SAYZ SHEEZ IT IS IGNORED.)

And before people throw in the. . . "I AM ONE OF THE UNIQUE ONES," line, remember. . . If everyone plays the Orc that wants to bajingle a Kal'Dorei, then seriously, your unique-line has just been flushed out the drain.

The sheer fact that these characters have had it ingrained in their brains that they would HAETTHARFAEC's should be reason enough. I mean, here's a real-world example.

Becky grew up in the South during the sixties and seventies, though she did not have personal reasons to hate the African Americans, she did. Her parents planted a small seed in her as a young child, along with most of the neighbors. She might not go around burning crosses in their yards, but till this day she still is uncomfortable with inter-racial dating, and African Americans.

This is a family member of mine, so yes it is true.

Now think. . . most of these races HAVE witnessed the war and the hate. . . So. Yeah. Just my two cents. (which are always right.)

Anne Braden, perfect counter example, but thats RL history. Im glad this is being discussed, my Orc seems to like everyone and i kind of view him as a failure character (/shrug). My human who is much more racist seems to have a more "human" (no pun intended) feel when i play him. Its kind of fun being a little racist in WoW, it can lead to conflict which in turn can be fun and exciting.

Also one should keep in mind if two different races end up falling in love would they be able to have a child? I think it mentioned on WoW wiki somewhere awhile ago that Elves and Orcs could never have a child together.

Just my 2 cents on the matter.

[therew]

Before anyone even thinks about starting a human-rights speech, I´ll clarify that I am referring to IC racism in Warcraft RP.

Every roleplaying server of any fantasy game I´ve ever been in has had a good deal of players that completely ignore racial characteristics, history and sociology. Not only this, but they will then move on to try and be best buddies with their own race's natural enemy. It´s becoming far too common to see orcs and humans/dark elves and light elves/ blood elves and night elves/ demons and angels either in love or in a deep friendship.

I have two names for this: "Happy-flower RP" and "The Drizzt Do'Urden effect".

Warcraft is a universe covered in WARS (hence the name), conflicts, pain, corruption, etc. Thankfully, far from being a simple hack and slash, it provides an extensive LORE and gives plenty of information on the social and physical characteristics of each race, as well as their history. If you have a habit of ignoring that, I have two questions for you: Why are you roleplaying in Warcraft? And, Why did you pick that race if you´re not interested in what they are really like?

Here is a Guide posted by a CoTH GM: viewtopic.php?f=48&t=2646

This doesn´t mean that every character should be the stereotypical representation of its race. But making completely absurd characters doesn´t actually impress anyone and usually just ruins the mood in most roleplays.

For starters, let´s talk about love: Night elves falling in love with undead....gnomes falling in love with tauren...It just isn´t good roleplaying. Could a human and elf come to love eachother? Or a night elf and a blood elf? Orc and troll? Well yes, they could. But that sort of thing ought to be done through EXTENSIVE ROLEPLAY. A short little roleplay session in which Mr Romantic walks up to Lady Love and says a few sweet words is NOT enough to inspire cross-faction or cross-racial love! And if you DO have this sort of thing going on...keep it on a LOW PROFILE! Take into account the consequences of your romance. How does your race and society look upon it? Would a blood elf with a brain really go around showing the whole world that he or she is with a Sin´dorei? NO!

Racism(It´s a REAL thing, People!): I´ve seen a lot of cross-faction friendliness happening around the server and It really deserves a mention. Some races HATE eachother. There´s nothing you can do to change that! It´s realistic to roleplay the tension between the races of Azeroth and it´s generally the sign of a good player.
It´s not very realistic at all to just say: “Oh but my character believes in not judging people and giving second chances.” Ok...let´s get this straight. World of Warcraft, as i have said, is a world covered in wars and constant conflicts. If you are, for example, a draenei, you have seen your people slaughtered for no good reason by orcs and blood elves. The Night elves lost their beloved demi-god Cenarius to a bunch of bloodthirsty orcs who were, to boot, chopping down trees in their forest! The orcs were enslaved by humans for years and treated like dirt even after they were free of demonic influence. The blood elves saw nine tenths of their population slaughtered and the humans didn´t lift a finger to help. Humans saw Stormwind lost to orcs and Lordaeron lost to the undead...THE LIST GOES ON.

Most of our characters have witnessed really horrible things or have at least suffered indirectly from these wars and massacres...so no, being a liberal, happy, love-and-peace-for-everyone kind of person is just not suitable for Warcraft RP.

If you want your character to be a racist bastard then let your character be a rasist bastard. If other people desided to play their characters differently then so let it be. Why in the world do people on this server complain so much over how other people are playing on this server then whine about the lack of a community? Get over it, people play different characters, stop trying to change that.

[Dotsy]

Most important point would be that EVERY character and person IRL also, has reason behind their actions, thoughts and words. Anything that any character does, thinks or says should always come with a reason from that character. The view is towards realism, and IRL everyone does something for some particular reason.

On a side note: The views of the majority race, may not apply to every single person of that race. Again though, this comes with reason.