Roleplay Room
For all your roleplaying needs, please keep ALL roleplaying in this section. Whether it be just to roleplay regularly or with your breedable or evolving pets.
Different Types of Roleplay
- Script Roleplay
Placing their name along with their action and statement. This usually saves some confusion between the character and their pet.
Past-Tense Roleplay
The player expresses thinking, feeling and reactions.
Present-Tense Story Roleplay
Same as the past-tense, only that everything is occurring at that very moment.
Common Pet Peeves Of Roleplaying -- When roleplaying there are a few specific things one should avoid doing that disrupt the flow of the current storyline that's going on and just generally piss off those around you.
- God-Modding -- God-modding is when your pet/character/persona is utterly untouchable and you refuse to let actions from other players apply to yourself while forcing your actions onto others. This is the person who, during a roleplayed action sequence, goes: "Your puny powers can't hurt me! *knocks aside your energy beam effortlessly, punches you in the face, knocks you over, stamps on your neck until you DIE!* I win forever!" Eww..*shudder*
Overuse Of Emoticons/Chat Actions -- Its better to express your character's emotion via text than with emoticons every two sentences as it makes your roleplaying look trite and more like something that belongs in a chat room than an attempt to enact a scene. "That's wonderful! Eee! I'm so happy!" Sophie smiles, spinning on one foot. sounds a lot better, for instance than "That's wonderful! =D Eee! I'm so happy!" ^_^_^_^_^ *spinz on one foot*"
Barging Into A Running Roleplay Without Asking -- It should go without saying but when two or three people are doing their own thing in a thread, its considered very rude to storm in and shoehorn your character in with them without asking. The polite thing to do is to roleplay your character coming into the thread, observing them, and politely waiting at a distance to be acknowledged. If they ignore you, then don't press the issue. People find it very annoying to have to scramble to accomodate an extra person when they're attempting to enact a scene of their own...especially if they have to stop and explain everything to the newcomer.
Being A Glory Hog -- The lesser, but just as ugly cousin of God-modding. This is when you attempt to steer the roleplay so that your character is the one seeing the most action (ie -- hogging all the fights, finding all the treasures, speaking to the elusive dieties). Give other people a chance...its not nice to leave the others out when they're just as eager as you are to participate.
Coming In Just To Go Sit In The Corner -- A very common thing people like to do when they don't have a particular action in mind is to post the ever-coveted *Goes and sits in the corner* or *Wanders Aimlessly* rather than actually investing a little time on an entrance and attempting to find someone to interact with. Rather, they're hoping that someone will abandon the current roleplay to come see what's wrong with them. Its not a major faux pas, but it IS considered annoying to do.
Controlling Someone Else's Character -- There is no faster way to cheese off a roleplayer than to take control of their character without their permission. This is when, during roleplay, someone scripts out an interaction between their own character and someone else's character entirely on their own without the other person's imput to make the RP work in their favor.
More to come soon.
