How to roleplay a pandaren?

[Techno-Druid]

How to role play a pandaren.

[Revi]

"...hic!" ?

[Tyrgannus]

Focus on curiosity, exploration, and beer. Honestly. As a wanderer on the Giant turtle, you're family line has a sense of adventure and as a Pandaren, you are a chubby drunk. Pretty much guaranteed.

[Wishblade]

Be an adventurous explorer with a love for beer and food, who's a calm fellow that doesn't let negative emotions cloud judgement.

[Chingylol]

Speak broken english and pronounce "R's" as "W's".

[Sevyvia]

Don't.

It's that simple.

Please be constructive

[Ginantonicus]

Or get drunk then start playing. Then there is no need to role play.

[Deleted]

There are many ways to portray a Pandaren. You can portray yourself as a native of Pandaria or one of the Wandering Isle pandaren.

There are some heavy differences in both of them, but some things do go again between the two. Like the acceptance that the world is not peaceful, and while it's okay to be peaceful at heart, it is wrong to shy away from protecting what is dear to you. Home, family and hearth will always be important to a Pandaren, though what is considered home may vary. Then of course pandaren do believe in being... Umm... "Whole-bodied" if you catch my drift.

Within the Wandering Isle pandaren you've seen the majority adapting to one of two philosophies, which doesn't seem to exist anywhere on Pandaria. Possibly these philosophies were thought up by wandering monk masters who settled on the Wandering Isle thus never sharing their philosophies with Pandaria's denizens... But who knows? Tushui and Huojin, but these two are exceptionally easy to find out about. The game provides loads of knowledge on the subject and wowpedia has it all written down. Anyways, the Wandering Isle Pandaren unlike the general Pandaria Pandaren public are adventurers who let's their curiousity guide them on their way, not afraid to break down old rules to build up new ones, because old rules might be getting too "meh" so to speak.

Pandaria Pandaren in general are very home focused, preferring to stay put where they are born, focusing instead on honest work rather than guiding themselves by curiousity, few examples exists of people who deviates from this. Among them are Brewmasters who makes it their mission to travel about to find the best ingredients to make brews with, even going as far as to put themselves in incredibly dangerous situations, like the Sapmasters in the Dread Wastes. But in general Pandaria Pandaren sticks to home and hearth, focusing attention and family there and also being FIERCELY protective of it. Remember that every single adult pandaren knows at least basic hand-to-hand combat (having the courage to use it however isn't always apparent) as it lies within the tradition to know how to protect yourself. To accept that while it may seem peaceful, anything could happen and thus you should always be prepared, but always find ways to never dwell on the negative. Hence why Pandaren can seem overly cheery at almost any time. Though whether they wish to be or not is their choice, there are examples of "non-happy Pandaren".

Well that was awfully long... But well, I hope it was useful.

For specialty groups like the Golden Lotus, Shado-Pan, Celestials, Wind Serpent Riders and so on. Check their respective pages on Wowpedia for info.

[rhoark]

This bit from the Vol'jin novel is the best explanation you'll get of Tu'shui

The elder had said, “It is the sort of day that tiger gourami would be nice.” The younger merely nodded.

Chen knew it was a command, and he complied. He did so carefully. He fished three gourami out of the ocean. The first fish he threw back. The last one he kept for the sisters, and the largest he gave to a refugee fishwife and her five cubs because her husband was still one of the missing.

He’d known that giving the sisters the first fish would have been seen as a sign of his being hasty. To give them all three would show he was prone to proud displays of excess. To give them the biggest, which was more than they could eat, would show a lack of discretion and calculation. But in doing what he did, he demonstrated reason, consideration, and charity.