Looking for a Roleplaying Guild/Group?

Whats roleplay? I've never roleplayed before, but i'd like to learn how. This Rp idea sounds interesting and i would like to join if you guys are willing to invite me and help me out Roleplaying is a kind of art where you collaberatively create stories based around the gaming environment, your own character, and your character's interactions with other characters who are also roleplaying. These stories are created within the game itself, although sometimes people expand these stories to web boards or the like, to help add body.

I tend to think of it as sort of like playing Dungeons & Dragons through a gaming interface.

Roleplayed characters generally have a carefully thought-out background story that drives the character's motivations and choices. Gameplay is dominated with chat, but does not exclude fighting monsters if it fits in with the roleplayed goals of the story.

In a Guild Wars environment, I expect roleplaying probably would involve using the storyline and integrating your own backstory into it. Unlike a pen-and-paper roleplaying environment, though, you will find that your character cannot really turn into a traitor against the storyline (for example), but I'm sure people work around such limitations in some fashion (probably by simply embracing the limitation).

It's relatively easy to roleplay, although you have to be prepared to endure roleplayed negative reactions to your roleplayed choices, and recognize them as part of the roleplay, and not a shot against you, personally (a subtlety of roleplay that confuses some people). Whispers between players can help dispell possible confusion by clarifying that the text is roleplay, not reality.

I hope that helps a little. I wish I could write out an example roleplay session, but I'm lacking a little in imagination at the moment, as I really need to focus on my job.