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My fight posts tend to be short compared to some of the rediculous "supar advanced literates" I've seen, but I think I could hand out a few tips.

If it's a fight, your character is probably going to sustain a few injuries. If these injuries start to hinder your character's ability to fight, it's probably worth a mention. For example, your character to a hard hit to the leg before, then he tries to kick his opponent with the same leg. After they do, they're probably going to realize what a bad idea that was. Also, it's probably going to hurt them as well as their opponent if it connects. Already, that's a good 3-4 sentance post (throwing the kick, restating that the leg is injured, going "oh crap," and then, depending on the house combat rules, connencting and hurting your injured leg more).

Another thing that can add length to a fight post is some casual danger dialog. Talking is a free action, so go ahead and insult your opponent while you're fighting.

Taking a sentance or two to describe changes in your character's morale is a good idea if you want to pad your posts. For example, your character is getting a bit cocky after landing a couple of hits. Take a second to say so. Similarly, that cockiness is going to fade fast after taking a hit in return. Take a second out of throwing punches to say so.

In my opinion, though, fighting posts don't have to be really long. Avoid purple prose during fight scenes at all costs, as it really starts to loose the feeling of action when you feel the need to describe every litte drop of blood that goes flying or how jumping away from that attack made Mary-Suzette's hair get in her face and mar her perfect beauty. The goal is to accurately describe what's going on while still making it feel action-y.

@ Tsuki

True say about the one-liners. I spotted a couple Gary-Stu attributes to those users' characters. shhhhh >_>' ninja

@ Tomare

I usually RP with my friends, but I do it through MSN (so instant messaging RP). But we don't do Sonic roleplaying since we have our own separate characters. I was hoping to Sonic RP with someone outside my friend's community just to see how it's like. But yeah, the greatest solution is probably creating my own RP. I've been trying to think of a plot for awhile, but most of them seem too cliche for my liking - and I try to make them seem unique or fresh as possible. To be honest though, I guess I wouldn't mind a couple Sues or Stus just for laughs xd but for a serious story, it'd get rather irritating >_>

Thanks both of you for your advice =)

Well, the site I used to go on was an Invisionfree board, which, as the name suggests, is free (we later upgraded to Zetaboards, which is very similar and still free). The only thing that cost any money was the domain name one of the admins bought.

I don't really like RPing over IM. It's too hard to do a group RP because you need to have everyone on at the same time and people keep posting over each other.

Thanks for the tip Tomare heart

Note to self: Avoid Purple prose when trying to make fight post longer