Guard Roleplaying Guide

In the interests of promoting and assisting the believability of the Stormwind legal system, a number of individuals have contributed to guides for legal role-play. This Guard Roleplaying Guide contains pointers and tips to those who would role-play standing as a judge in a court.

Dislaimer: ''It is by no means mandatory for individuals to follow this guide when role-playing guards. It is merely a list of suggestions that individuals can adopt for their own role-play.

=Law Enforcement Process=

The Law Enforcement Process in role-play consists of several steps; starting from when a Guard witnesses or is alerted of a crime and ending when the associated criminal is punished.

The key and often overlooked concept in law enforcement role-play is that both the guard AND the criminal role-player should be having fun throughout the entire process. Nobody wants their input about their own character to be completely disregarded or "god moded" into an untimely death or punishment. To ensure that both sides of a conflict have fun role-play, the participants must maintain constant out-of-character communication about the details of the encounter.

Due to the fact that guard and other law-enforcement role-players are often in greater numbers than criminals in these role-play conflicts, it falls especially on them to maintain out-of-character communication so that the criminal role-players' wishes are not steamrolled by the majority.

(Work in Progress)