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Just thought I'd share this idea as it's an easy-to-implement way to provide more opportunities for roleplaying for players and to increase the feeling that your world is 'alive'.
I was sitting around chatting with some players the other day about what they'd like to see and one player suggested that we create a channel that immortals can listen (but not speak on) that relays whatever players say to or tell to mobs. I loved the idea so much I put it in a few hours later and it's been fantastic so far.
What it does is allow immortals who are looking to do some RPing to just watch for interesting opportunities as players talk to mobs. It's a lot of fun to see a player just randomly chatting away to a mob, possess the mob and go into a full-blown rp session with him and whoever else gets involved. Their reaction when their usually reticent guild tutor (or whatever) starts talking back is priceless.
As an addendum, we're also seeing that there's a need for a comments file for each mob so that the various immortals can see a record of how a mob was roleplayed recently and stay consistent with that.
Anyway, much fun and very easy to implement. Highly recommended!
--matt
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