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It seems like most of the posts on this thread seem to be of the opinion that either you accept someone or you want them dead. You can still have those sorts of conflict without losing the notion that you can work together.
For example, someone I knew in an MMO had a character that he played as a very arrogant Elf. I had more fun role playing with him specifically because neither of my characters got along with him. One character was rather swashbucklery human and I would tease him whenever he insulted the fact I was human (which was very often) and it often escaladed to the point that people who had not been around us occassionally thought we weren't joking around, but we had no problem working together. He would tank, I would stab the thing in the back, and then we would go at it again until we started fighting something else. Granted we would never IC volunteer to work together, but since it was an MMO we needed a healer anyways and most of the rest of guild were healers, so that meant we always had someone else asking us for help.
He was perfectly capable of being completely racist to all non-elves (he didn't even like most elves that much for that matter), and I was able to constantly bicker with him because he was RPing a very arrogant character. However, we were perfectly able to group together because we didn't take it personally and it made sense even from an IC standpoint since we both agreed to help whatever healer asked us for help, and his character was too stubborn to leave a group because I was there and my character intentionally was provoking him, so it made sense I would want to stay.
That is more the impression I got when I first started looking in this thread. That was definitely one of the most enjoyable RPing interactions I can remember because we were constantly trying to one up each other, which made it very interesting. It didn't matter we weren't trying to kill one another, we were in the same guild and we worked towards the same goals, we just were very competitive with each other, even though there was nothing to actually gain. His character insulted mine because I was human (so it fits in with the idea of racial toleration) and mine shot back mainly to provoke him for a sort of swashbuckler idea of banter fun since his character was insanely arrogant (so it is more a character basis than a racial one).
If anything those types of interactions are more interesting to play than ones of groups in direct conflict because you are forced into more diverse situations and you can't just kill the other person because you are still on the same side.
For example, someone I knew in an MMO had a character that he played as a very arrogant Elf. I had more fun role playing with him specifically because neither of my characters got along with him. One character was rather swashbucklery human and I would tease him whenever he insulted the fact I was human (which was very often) and it often escaladed to the point that people who had not been around us occassionally thought we weren't joking around, but we had no problem working together. He would tank, I would stab the thing in the back, and then we would go at it again until we started fighting something else. Granted we would never IC volunteer to work together, but since it was an MMO we needed a healer anyways and most of the rest of guild were healers, so that meant we always had someone else asking us for help.
He was perfectly capable of being completely racist to all non-elves (he didn't even like most elves that much for that matter), and I was able to constantly bicker with him because he was RPing a very arrogant character. However, we were perfectly able to group together because we didn't take it personally and it made sense even from an IC standpoint since we both agreed to help whatever healer asked us for help, and his character was too stubborn to leave a group because I was there and my character intentionally was provoking him, so it made sense I would want to stay.
That is more the impression I got when I first started looking in this thread. That was definitely one of the most enjoyable RPing interactions I can remember because we were constantly trying to one up each other, which made it very interesting. It didn't matter we weren't trying to kill one another, we were in the same guild and we worked towards the same goals, we just were very competitive with each other, even though there was nothing to actually gain. His character insulted mine because I was human (so it fits in with the idea of racial toleration) and mine shot back mainly to provoke him for a sort of swashbuckler idea of banter fun since his character was insanely arrogant (so it is more a character basis than a racial one).
If anything those types of interactions are more interesting to play than ones of groups in direct conflict because you are forced into more diverse situations and you can't just kill the other person because you are still on the same side.
RP'd to perfection of course.
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