Just thought I'd bump this topic after experiencing something rather interesting in-game.
The other night, I got chatting to a player called Girl Comet. As it happens, she's a fairly serious RPer, and likes to RP above all else in CoH. She had been thinking about joining our Super Group (guild), hence me talking to her, and we got chatting on the subject of RP.
Anyway, long story short, she invited me to an RP event she was holding that evening. Being fairly new to online RP, I decided to give it a go.
As it turned out, she wanted to RP her characters origin story. To do this, she created a mission (quest) using the Mission Architect feature that revolved around her gaining her powers. Turned out she is a mutant, and got caught up in a jewel heist, and the stress of being taken hostage brought on her powers.
There was no missions objective, no XP, and only low level mobs as 'crooks' for effect. Another player played the part of the villain pulling of the heist. I was one of three heroes called to investigate what was going on.
All in all, through clever use of this in game feature and costume changes, it was an awesome RP event, and I enjoyed it immensely.
Makes a change from farm missions anyway