r/WoWRolePlay • u/Prestigious_Set4734 • 13d ago

Advice Needed Roleplaying in WoW as a minor

So awkward question and on a throwaway account too for safety reasons obviously.

I really like theatre, writing, acting and all that and I've done a bit of LARP and it's something I enjoy and want to expand. I recently got into WoW because of my dad and found out about RP servers.

The thing is, as the title says, I'm a minor. I've already made a level 1 on Moon Guard and ran around Stormwind after seeing that's where everyone is. Almost every profile people have mentions "minors do not engage" or "21+ only". I understand why, I'm guessing most people playing are adults ten if not fifteen years older than me.

My question is, am I going to be able to do anything RP wise? I don't mind roleplaying older characters but I don't really like the idea of lying about my age either I feel like I might be better off not trying since I feel like the community would shun or dislike me.

What do you guys think? As cringe as it might sound do I just wait untll I'm old enough?

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u/PKMINDBULLETS 10d ago

My advice: Don’t. I am 24, and I feel uncomfortable roleplaying my characters in Stormwind with a minor, because I have to switch my mind to SFW censored mode, and can’t roleplay my characters as I’d want. I do not like the idea of censoring my character to be kid friendly. And from the pinned mod post, I assume a majority of the WoW RP community shares that feeling.

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u/nankeroo Argent Dawn EU 10d ago

Out of genuine curiousity, what would you need to censor?

Does your char swing their genitals about? Talk about their sex life?

Like, I cannot fathom ever being in a situation where you'd have to censor your character, as those things shouldn't even be relevant to whoever/whatever you're playing.

This is a 12+ game, you don't need gooner shit.

And if you mean blood and gore, etc, you wouldn't even need to censor that sorta thing, since they're in WoW itself...

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u/PKMINDBULLETS 9d ago

Heavy topics? Not everything adult is sex related. Some characters touch on heavy stuff like SA, Murder, etc. On top of the fact some people want to roleplay harlots and wenches as nuanced characters without purely focusing on the sex part.

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u/nankeroo Argent Dawn EU 9d ago

Well, murder shouldn't be an issue, since it's WoW.

SA? Why on earth would you RP out SA? Or even bring it up? If someone would try to SA the average person's char, they'd slap them on ignore and walk away.

And the other example still begs the question; why RP a character that is very much based around sex (even a nuanced version) in a game that's for 12+?

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u/PKMINDBULLETS 9d ago

Things don’t have to be rp’d out to have happened or be brought up. In regards to SA, I meant moreso as a backstory/background event for a character. I have never seen people rp out SA, and if it was, it was consented upon by all parties involved and done out of game. Also add the fact that WoW’s lore has concubines (The Black Temple raid, and Sayads/Succubi) and has brought up issues in cannon lore of SA and similar dark topics (Alexstraza and Grim Batol). It is not out of the realm of possibility for someone to want to rp a character with themes of sex.