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Post by Admin on Dec 19, 2021 15:35:59 GMT -5
GENERAL RULES:
1. Be excellent to each other!
2. Try to keep things relatively PG13 on the forum. Obscenities should be kept to a minimum. There could be kids here, and frankly I don't want to have to try and monitor what should and shouldn't be said on a public forum.
3. Politics, trash talking, and points of controversy are best left elsewhere. Please don't bring that cluster-headache to the forum. It's not fun for the bystanders, and I'm the one who has to deal with it if it gets out of hand. So please just don't.
4. Be sure to read all of the rules and etiquette for rp before posting, regardless of how experienced you are with rp. Things are a bit different around here than sites like RPGuild, so it's best to make sure you familiarize yourself with the laws and culture of the land.
5. If you have a conflict with another member, please try to work it out in private. If you feel that you need somebody to step in and help you to work out the issue, or if you do not feel confident in dealing with the issue yourself, please message an Admin or moderator and ask for their assistance.
6. People inevitably have differing ideals and values. If someone else' conflicts with your own, that is okay. There is no reason to get angry or to be unkind about it. Unless they're attacking somebody or being mean or derogatory themselves, it's not your problem.
7. Derogatory treatment of others or meanness or violence is not allowed out of character, but it is allowed in character. Don't get up in arms about it (see more in the rp etiquette post)
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Post by Admin on Dec 19, 2021 15:36:29 GMT -5
RP RULES:
1) No god-modding. This consists of forcing the outcome of your character's action upon another person's character. The other person gets to decide whether a suggested action succeeds upon their character or not. Thus, no instant hits or holds or kills. -It is allowed to force a grab or pick someone up. However, the other person decides if they are hindered or stuck in that position, or if they can wiggle free or break loose. You also can decide if you resist their resisting, though.
2) No meta-gaming. This consists of using knowledge that you have of a character or situation in the story in order to give your character an advantage of some kind. No perceiving what could not be perceived, and no reading people's thoughts.
3) No perfect or all-powerful characters. Not even the admin characters are like that, so there is no reason why a member should be allowed such a character.
4) This is not an NRP. Posts which focus entirely on one's own characters and NPCs without regard to interacting with other characters are not allowed, as this type of rp is meant to be a collaborative, interactive effort. If you feel the need to write out the stories of your characters and their interactions with your other characters and their families and such, feel free to post those under your character thread on the Database board.
5) I will not be allowing Collab Posts in this rp. The collaboration should be in the back-and-forth of posts. You guys are not limited to a single thread which restricts everyone's time and pacing, so there should be no need to use this method in order to keep things going.
6) If a thread dies, it's neither the end of the world nor the end of the rp. You can always start up a new thread with other characters for new interactions.
7) You are not required to keep your timelines straight when rping in different places, but do try to bear them in mind for the sake of cohesion and avoiding possible time conflicts. This is mainly to keep things easier and less complicated for yourself.
8) Try to keep things somewhat PG13. Swearing is allowed, and characters certainly can't be expected to stay clean and well behaved, but if you want to be dropping obscenities left and right (F-bomb, C-bomb, etc. You know, the R-rated words) try to at least make up some space jargon for it. Within reason. It shouldn't be just as blatantly graphic as the words you're replacing.
9) In that same vein, any other explicit content (sex and excessively graphic content) should be kept to private messages, which you can find under the "Confab" tab.
10) You are currently permitted to have as many as three active rp characters, but its recommended that you start with one until you are more familiar how the rp works. Your characters do not have to be grouped together at all times, nor do they even have to know each other. It's a big world out there, and they can go anywhere they want. Have fun with it.
Further detail of these rules can be found in the RP Etiquette post.
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Post by Admin on Dec 19, 2021 15:36:42 GMT -5
A GUIDE TO RP ETIQUETTE:
Now there are many different methods of rp, so one cannot say that you have to use a certain method.
HOWEVER
It should be noted that there are some things you really do have to do in order to show consideration and cooperation with your fellow rpers. These things have nothing to do with method or type of rp.
And I say these things because they are problems which I often encounter in attempting to rp with people. If you do some of these things, it does not make you a bad person or a bad rper, it just means you have yet to learn them. That is what I am here to teach you, girls and boys. So here goes:
1) Interact with the first post of the rp. Seriously. The first person to post is setting up the rest of the rp. Just leaving them hanging and doing your own thing does not progress the rp or spur character development. DO NOT LEAVE the first person to try and figure out how to get all of the characters interacting. They did setup. You should be doing follow-up. If you want to write individual character novels, do that instead of rping.
2) Don't skim posts. It's a bad idea. It causes you to miss important things that someone posted, so you wind up ignoring those important details, and then the other person has to basically throw away what they had written. Once again, this is basically rendering the other person's post as pointless, and is not good practice for rping with other people. It's like a social courtesy, almost. To go along with this, it's best not to make posts that are excessively long and exhaustive due to how much more difficult it becomes for people to read and remember all of the details that were in them. Nothing wrong with long posts, but try to keep in mind that people have to read and react to them.
3) Be mindful of stage set-up. Even if you are not the sort of person who does this, odds are that you will encounter somebody who does. If their character is in a particular place or position in correspondence with something or someone, try to be aware of that position which the player has described. If they said that they were behind you, with their back turned to you, don't just say "my character looked up into your character's eyes". Seriously. Describe the act of your character turning around and maneuvering around the other character to face them. It's not that hard. You don't have to be really good at writing in order to do this. You can use all the typos, bad grammar, and basic words you like. Just work with the other players on stuff.
4) Keep the role consistent. It's rp. Role play. You are playing a role. Act the character as the character would act, not how you or somebody else would act, or how you think the other players want your character to act, or how you think they should act because you, personally, feel sorry for the other character. Seriously, for the love of waffles, DO NOT DO THIS. You will a) throw off the whole rp b) probably screw up the other character more, because the other person is sticking with their character's personality, c) it's just meaningless. Play your character how they are. Don't try to force things. The other players want the rp to flow naturally, anyway. They don't want you to do anything in particular, just rp naturally. It'll all work out, don't worry. IT IS JUST A GAME.
5) Don't overpower your character. Give them some weaknesses. Any kind of weaknesses. They could despise pears, or they could be sickly, or a coward, or maybe they just have a bad personality. But also, don't give them so many weaknesses that they're annoying to rp with. I mean... keep it kind of realistic. Not that all rps are realistic. But every universe or story has a logic of its own, so try to stick to that. What I mean is, make your character a person. Make them believable. Tangible. Balance them out a little. Don't make them perfect, because nobody is perfect. Don't make them devoid of any redeeming qualities or skills, because frankly no one is like that, either. And no one likes a whiner. If your goal is to make people feel sorry for your character, they probably won't. And will just hate them. And not want to rp with them.
6) If everyone else that you are rping with in a group setting is rping in paragraph format, describing their character's actions and all that jazz, PUT IN THE EFFORT to do at least a few sentences. Describe your character's actions, too. Don't be that guy who walks in like a noob after these clearly well thought out posts and types just what your character says. If you don't want to rp more than that, then rp with only other people who will merely talk for their character. It's not that it's a worse way to rp... but it's really annoying to do that in a setting where everyone else is actually putting ample thought and effort in to the narrative.
7) Don't get mad at people who are writing in a more serious tone than you are. Some people prefer to focus on character development and such, and that's up to them how they go about it. If you have a problem with it, don't rp with people who are serious.
8) Don't get mad at people who are writing in a more silly tone than you are. Some people prefer to just let loose and be crazy, and that's up to them how they go about it. If you have a problem with it, don't rp with people who are silly.
9) That being said, most silly rp is considered "crack rp", and is not in most cases considered canon. Try to avoid excessive nonsense in normal rps, because it can be annoying to the people who are actually into the rp and want to play their character, rather than just playing around with their character. Again, nothing wrong with crack rp, but try to contain it to crack rp. You can use humour in normal rp without just going completely mental. (Especially if you're being mental just because you are uncomfortable with serious rp. That makes you that awkward dude in the theatre who cracks awkward jokes loudly just because he's so obviously insecure. You know what I mean.)
10) Don't make characters based on existing characters by someone else. Really. Just don't. I pretty much guarantee that you'll wind up just looking like a noob with that one. The template will be obvious to anyone with experience, and it isn't good practice for you, and it will not be good for your reputation as a role player, so just don't go there. Using creativity in making a character is going to make you better at rping them. Seriously. What's the biggest problem with a Mary Sue character? They're so clearly a shallow combination of traits that the writer has liked about other characters. Don't go there.
11) I'm sure there're plenty more, but none immediately come to mind. So if anyone else has some suggestions, I'll gladly add them to the list.
And while it is not necessary, it can be very helpful to use Spell Check on your posts. This often will clear up confusion that may happen in trying to decipher typos. I would not say that it is a requirement for being able to rp well, but it is beneficial to everyone in regards to avoiding misunderstandings.
So now you all should know how to rp with consideration to your fellow rpers. Good luck out there!
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