Post by sovietpirate on Apr 20, 2006 21:59:46 GMT -5
When roleplaying there are many things that you may have questions on. Like how do you roleplay, what is role playing, and why are there rules and guidelines on roleplaying. Now im a decent Rper, having been on Gaia Online for 2 years, and darkthrone for about half a year.
How to roleplay.
there are a few different styles, we will be learning a basic style today.
This is the Astrik style.
Ex. *she stands up slowly* who are you?
notice how the action is in the astriks and the question is just out and about. this is the most basic form of rping.
What is Roleplaying?
Roleplaying or Rping is where you take on the persona of a character you have created or has been created for you. Alot of people have different reactions and experiences rping. If you have a good imagination than rping is no problem, but if you have no imagination rping will be hard and prolly wont be a fun experience.
What are the rules?
The rules are simple. Do NOT play god
Ex.*She draws her gun and shots him in the head before he can do anything* bastard.....
this pisses people off, you can't simply say youve done somthing to a PC (player character) without letting them react or counter. But in the same respect know when you've been beaten.
Ex. *Vladmire's ship fired furiously on the weakend english ship*
English's turn: * the commander decided to raise the white flag knowing that he had been beaten*
Its just common sense that if your ship barely survived one attack and is attacked again that you can't just pretend that your in perfect condition. Which brings us to another thing calle Real Time Action. RTA is important and is very useful to the opertunistic person. Lets use the example from above. If the english ship had just finished sinking another ship, but their ship was badly damaged and they were then attacked by the russian ship. There would be no way that in that short time the english ship could have fixed itself, lets face it ships like that rarely were able to be fixed out on the sea. So logically the english ship would most likely surrender unless the english ship were another pirate ship, then it might fight to the bitter end. It is very unlikely that it could ever hope to beat the russian ship. Now, there is another form of godmodding. Imortality. This would be somthing like the Black Knight in Monty Pythons Holy Grail. If your arms been cut off your not gonna keep fighting, c'mon your mortally wounded i dont think even a spartan warrior would keep on fighting with one arm.
How to roleplay.
there are a few different styles, we will be learning a basic style today.
This is the Astrik style.
Ex. *she stands up slowly* who are you?
notice how the action is in the astriks and the question is just out and about. this is the most basic form of rping.
What is Roleplaying?
Roleplaying or Rping is where you take on the persona of a character you have created or has been created for you. Alot of people have different reactions and experiences rping. If you have a good imagination than rping is no problem, but if you have no imagination rping will be hard and prolly wont be a fun experience.
What are the rules?
The rules are simple. Do NOT play god
Ex.*She draws her gun and shots him in the head before he can do anything* bastard.....
this pisses people off, you can't simply say youve done somthing to a PC (player character) without letting them react or counter. But in the same respect know when you've been beaten.
Ex. *Vladmire's ship fired furiously on the weakend english ship*
English's turn: * the commander decided to raise the white flag knowing that he had been beaten*
Its just common sense that if your ship barely survived one attack and is attacked again that you can't just pretend that your in perfect condition. Which brings us to another thing calle Real Time Action. RTA is important and is very useful to the opertunistic person. Lets use the example from above. If the english ship had just finished sinking another ship, but their ship was badly damaged and they were then attacked by the russian ship. There would be no way that in that short time the english ship could have fixed itself, lets face it ships like that rarely were able to be fixed out on the sea. So logically the english ship would most likely surrender unless the english ship were another pirate ship, then it might fight to the bitter end. It is very unlikely that it could ever hope to beat the russian ship. Now, there is another form of godmodding. Imortality. This would be somthing like the Black Knight in Monty Pythons Holy Grail. If your arms been cut off your not gonna keep fighting, c'mon your mortally wounded i dont think even a spartan warrior would keep on fighting with one arm.