There are many ways, but here's two quick ones:

1) You pitch an idea to a GM who recognizes the amount of effort you put into creating a certain storyline and if they have the time to help they might.
2) You put a great deal of effort into developing a character type, a GM notices, and does a thing to acknowledge it.

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Uzmam! The Chairman will NOT be pleased to know you're trying to build outside of approved zones. I'd hate for you to be charged the taxes needed to have this place re-zoned. Head for the manor if you're feeling creative.

>>How do you pitch an idea to a GM?

If you know a GM in particular who might be interested (say you know GM X does a lot of things in a particular province, or has an interest in a particular type of storyline, etc), you could email them at DR-GMNAMEHERE@play.net. The more generic email address is events@play.net.

Don't really expect them to immediately reply (they are busy doing things, after all!), but they're reading what's sent.

It's also worth keeping in mind that just because an event seems to come out of nowhere, that isn't always the case. A lot of background work is put into them.

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Uzmam! The Chairman will NOT be pleased to know you're trying to build outside of approved zones. I'd hate for you to be charged the taxes needed to have this place re-zoned. Head for the manor if you're feeling creative.

The last part was more just to manage expectations. My understanding is that some of Whiteburn's stuff had been "in the making" for awhile.

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Uzmam! The Chairman will NOT be pleased to know you're trying to build outside of approved zones. I'd hate for you to be charged the taxes needed to have this place re-zoned. Head for the manor if you're feeling creative.

For event things, write DR-Events@play.net.


Annwyl
Message Board Supervisor

If you've questions or comments, take it to e-mail by writing me at DR-Annwyl@play.net.

A good way to show that you're interested in RP is to continuously RP your character, no matter what. Decide its story. Decide its personality. Decide what it cares about, what it does. Then do it in game, relentlessly (while still abiding by policy, of course).

You'll both build a reputation with other players who will RP back with you, and with GMs who will notice your consistency and dedication.

Frankly, even without having a built-up reputation, GM RP hooks can absolutely happen. Sometimes PCs respond in ways that can lead to more RP, sometimes they respond in ways that wrap things up pretty fast. Sometimes these hooks are thrown out because a GM is running or looking to start part of a storyline and reaching out in ways to rope in random PCs. Sometimes they happen because a GM is just randomly peeking about to see who is doing what right that moment, and throws out something applicable to that PC, where they're at, or what they were doing.

Personally, I even sometimes start event hooks just by checking who online at that time is in a particular guild, or who has their last favor from a particular deity (or who is of a particular race, or in a certain area, etc) and throw things out to literally everyone online at the time who fits that criteria to see who bites, then personalize things further from there.

This is fairly off-topic for the subform, though, so if anyone wants to discuss this subject more, please go ahead and move it over here: http://forums.play.net/forums/DragonRealms/Events%20and%20Happenings%20in%20DragonRealms'%20Elanthia/General%20Discussions%20-%20Events%20in%20General%20(OOC)/view

-Persida

It's also worth noting that Whiteburn's roleplay is pretty stellar. She's consistent, she's committed, and she does a great job of it. She's also playing something guaranteed to make waves even though the results are often to her own personal detriment. And when those waves start to die down, she makes more waves, even though those waves continue to cause her no end of grief. And she does this all to further the roleplay and immersiveness of the game, and thus the enjoyment of others. There are a number of people who make waves in the game, but many of them don't particularly care about the enjoyment of other players. Or even roleplay.

Whiteburn is one of my absolute favorite characters in the game, and I don't think her player gets enough credit.

- Saragos

Guys,

You have been given responses, if you have a RP idea in mind, feel free to write DR-Events@play.net.

The snark goes elsewhere.

Annwyl
Message Board Supervisor

If you've questions or comments, take it to e-mail by writing me at DR-Annwyl@play.net.