“Warband Role Play” is a community that revolves around a server-side modification for the PC video game Mount & Blade: Warband. Server-side means that you can jump right in to play, all you need is a legal copy of Mount & Blade: Warband, no downloads or mods required. Other servers in Mount & Blade Warband host game modes such as “Deathmatch,” and “Team Deathmatch,” and similar modes. Warband Role Play creates a far deeper experience; a semi-realistic virtual Medieval society in which players can create their own character, and carve their own path in the WRP world.

Players are transported to the land of Ithlor, a fledgling nation-state consisting of the capital city of Opal and its five vassals, break-off provinces from the borders of five of the six great kingdoms of Calradia. Ruled by the People’s Father, and his Representatives, Ithlor is a society of all systems, nations, and religions. Will you rise through merit? through popularity? through veins of gold? through blood, or through the blood of your enemies? Bandits also attempt to strike a fortune amidst the chaos, preying upon the weak, and strong alike. All options are available to the player to strike out his own fortune in the land, for while on the surface a utopia can be seen, the undercurrents of war and hatred still fuel the fires of progress in this disparate land of opposing beliefs.

It is this which makes a difference. In WRP choices have consequences upon the game world. NPC characters are replaced by players, and a written storyline is replaced by on-the-spot interaction between players. Knowing that everything you do, and say, will cause a reaction from others, which decisions will your character make? The fun doesn’t end with a single character either, as you can have 5 active characters simultaneously, and the wealth of your past characters can be claimed on the creation of a new one. Instead of reading on, and on about why so many people love WRP…