Last week over on WoW Insider’s regular feature All the World’s a Stage, David Bowers brought up an interesting topic about the distinction between non roleplayers and roleplayers. Using his scale I’d be considered an RP agnostic. I have a strong sense of my characters but I don’t actual roleplay. I do reside on a roleplay server and I have created long and often elborate backstories in my mind for my characters. Given the chance I might role play but thing is I’m pretty scared to even try.

‘whew I’ve admitted it.

Yes I’m scared to actually role play. I have a fear that I might do it all wrong and come off looking so stupid. Instead I just mill about and sometimes have the great pleasure of catching people acting out a scene but I never taken part in it. Often times it feels like I might be intruding on someone. It’s kind of like walking down an isle in a grocery store and seeing a couple making out, you grab your bread as quick as you can and leave the isle hoping they don’t see you. Okay so it might not be like that exactly but you get my point.

So the question is how do people, such as myself, even get a start into roleplaying. What’s the equitte? How do you go about it all?