Post by Riku on Jul 3, 2010 14:57:28 GMT -4
Hello class, this is RPing 101, Rules on RPGing for people who don't know how or just want a few pointers. This was made by my friend and I a while back, so hopefully its still fresh.
NO ONE LINERS! Hopefully to you and your fellow RPer's more than one thought goes through your head when you are yourself. You might just have more than one thought when your acting as someone else.
Next, no God Moding. That is basically controlling any part of your environment that should be left up to someone else. In other words, don't tell what happens to other people's things, only worry about yourself, and for god sakes YOUR NOT A GOD! You can be hurt! Make it a little more interesting for the rest of us and oh i don't know take a hit once or twice. Keeps us on our toes.
Describe, describe, describe. Otherwise people don't know the difference between you standing in a white room or the end of the world and every minuscule detail of it. Don't pull a Stephen King and describe EVERYTHING just your surroundings and what it somewhat looks like or you can go into depth if there are quite a bit of things, your thoughts, actions, and hopefully your dialog. Also make them in some sort of their own distinguishably. For Example, make all your dialog Blue and in quotes, descriptions regular, and thoughts red. Something so that the rest of us can tell the difference. And for god sakes it wouldn't kill you guys to go in depth or CHECK YOUR SPELLING! There's a reason there's a button to modify your posts.
Also, don't forget to describe your character's emotion's. Even though the other character must play it off as if he doesn't know what your character is thinking, it would help out the user playing the character to know how there character thinks.
When you are Rping with more than one character, please make sure that the person reading the thread knows who's talking, who's thinking, and which characters, are infact, in the thread.
Another subject is punctuation. I'm sure everyone knows how to use quotation's, comma's and explanation mark's right? It's not really a big deal, but use them.
NPC's are characters in the game (or in this case Roleplay) that anyone could control. No name shinobi's are considered NPC's because you have to decide when they show up or get destroyed. NPC's also count as shop keepers or and inn keepers.
First off, keep yourself in the situation that the others have provided, rather then trying to create a tangent problem. In any one thread, there can be conflicts between characters stemming from other threads, but for one thread there should be one conflict at a time. A character should never join in the attempt to change the entire storyline of that thread for their own purposes. For example, coming into a thread when two characters are trying to strengthen a relationship between them, and then the enemy come and your battling them off to the side, is not proper. It distracts from the main story, and definitely can make a few people mad at the sudden intrusion.
Also, normally rules in English state that a paragraph ends when a person speaks, or the main idea of the paragraph has been dealt with. That rule is normally lax in RP, more so toward the dialog of a person. Actions described after words in RP serve to keep the action moving at a pace consistent with the post, and breaking up each time a person speaks into a new paragraph could lead to some pretty long posts. Although, even then, where you break your paragraphs, and where you think the main idea for one part of your post ends and another begins, all depends on you and your definition of the events in the post.
To make yourself better, it is almost imperative that you broaden your vocabulary to learn some of the larger and more complicated words. There are so many cases where simple words could be the replaced by words that would actually better detail the situation. Getting rid of "looked" and placing in its stead "gazed" or "sighted." "Unable to change" with "irrevocable." "Difficult, challenging, or confusing problem" with "quixotic conundrum." If you think there is a way to spruce up your RP, do so. These words stay with you, and the more you use them, the better you will find yourself to be.
So, yeah those are some pointer's. I learned a lot from this too.
UPDATE*
When making a character for an action board, you have to remember their limit's. Not everyone is a Canon character and have the best skills in the world. Whenever I see a character with a set list of techniques reaching into the twenties while they are only a mid-ranking character makes me cringe. Your character doesn't need that many techniques. A person who practices one hundred techniques once, will never beat someone who practiced one technique one hundred times.
NO ONE LINERS! Hopefully to you and your fellow RPer's more than one thought goes through your head when you are yourself. You might just have more than one thought when your acting as someone else.
Next, no God Moding. That is basically controlling any part of your environment that should be left up to someone else. In other words, don't tell what happens to other people's things, only worry about yourself, and for god sakes YOUR NOT A GOD! You can be hurt! Make it a little more interesting for the rest of us and oh i don't know take a hit once or twice. Keeps us on our toes.
Describe, describe, describe. Otherwise people don't know the difference between you standing in a white room or the end of the world and every minuscule detail of it. Don't pull a Stephen King and describe EVERYTHING just your surroundings and what it somewhat looks like or you can go into depth if there are quite a bit of things, your thoughts, actions, and hopefully your dialog. Also make them in some sort of their own distinguishably. For Example, make all your dialog Blue and in quotes, descriptions regular, and thoughts red. Something so that the rest of us can tell the difference. And for god sakes it wouldn't kill you guys to go in depth or CHECK YOUR SPELLING! There's a reason there's a button to modify your posts.
Also, don't forget to describe your character's emotion's. Even though the other character must play it off as if he doesn't know what your character is thinking, it would help out the user playing the character to know how there character thinks.
When you are Rping with more than one character, please make sure that the person reading the thread knows who's talking, who's thinking, and which characters, are infact, in the thread.
Another subject is punctuation. I'm sure everyone knows how to use quotation's, comma's and explanation mark's right? It's not really a big deal, but use them.
NPC's are characters in the game (or in this case Roleplay) that anyone could control. No name shinobi's are considered NPC's because you have to decide when they show up or get destroyed. NPC's also count as shop keepers or and inn keepers.
First off, keep yourself in the situation that the others have provided, rather then trying to create a tangent problem. In any one thread, there can be conflicts between characters stemming from other threads, but for one thread there should be one conflict at a time. A character should never join in the attempt to change the entire storyline of that thread for their own purposes. For example, coming into a thread when two characters are trying to strengthen a relationship between them, and then the enemy come and your battling them off to the side, is not proper. It distracts from the main story, and definitely can make a few people mad at the sudden intrusion.
Also, normally rules in English state that a paragraph ends when a person speaks, or the main idea of the paragraph has been dealt with. That rule is normally lax in RP, more so toward the dialog of a person. Actions described after words in RP serve to keep the action moving at a pace consistent with the post, and breaking up each time a person speaks into a new paragraph could lead to some pretty long posts. Although, even then, where you break your paragraphs, and where you think the main idea for one part of your post ends and another begins, all depends on you and your definition of the events in the post.
To make yourself better, it is almost imperative that you broaden your vocabulary to learn some of the larger and more complicated words. There are so many cases where simple words could be the replaced by words that would actually better detail the situation. Getting rid of "looked" and placing in its stead "gazed" or "sighted." "Unable to change" with "irrevocable." "Difficult, challenging, or confusing problem" with "quixotic conundrum." If you think there is a way to spruce up your RP, do so. These words stay with you, and the more you use them, the better you will find yourself to be.
So, yeah those are some pointer's. I learned a lot from this too.
UPDATE*
When making a character for an action board, you have to remember their limit's. Not everyone is a Canon character and have the best skills in the world. Whenever I see a character with a set list of techniques reaching into the twenties while they are only a mid-ranking character makes me cringe. Your character doesn't need that many techniques. A person who practices one hundred techniques once, will never beat someone who practiced one technique one hundred times.
