[Ghostcat]

Just wanted to add- The intense RP still exits, and you're required to RP to some degree.

It's just that you can choose to simply hang around the crossroads, or a bar and chat with however comes in.

Or you can find a nice fishing spot and see if someone joins you.

Or you could hunt mobs in a group.

Or you could work your way up in the public view, and earn prestige positions with duties and pay and such.

You could become a mechanist and design fancy inventions.

A druid sculpting the plants of a grove.

A retainer to a noble house, loyally protecting your lord. (Or, if you really work for it, you could BE the lord)

A playwright or songwriter, striving towards fame and fortune.

etc.