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Cranium Squirrel
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 9:43 am


Sorry about the title, I wanted to go all Master Shake on my forum.

But things aren't forbidden. Posting is good.

If you have an RP discussion you want to start, or a thread you think should be all up ons this subforum, post away. You're more than welcome to. I'm not going to murder any threads here, so long as they follow some guidelines:

1) They have to fall inside Gaia's normal posting rules. Look up the Gaia rules and the TOS if you're not sure if your post or thread will fit under these rules.

2) It's about role playing. I don't care if it's story, lore, character sheet, RP thread...it doesn't matter, so long as it's got something to do with RP. I loves the RP. Non-RP threads will be moved to a more appropriate subforum (or the main forum).

3) If you start an RP thread, I just ask that it have some structure and layout to it. You don't have to go nuts and do like, 65 posts of rules, who's playing and world descriptions. You don't need special banners and graphics. You do need a basic idea, at least, for what's going to happen in your little corner of the RP universe. A tiny backstory is all I ask, even for freeform stuff.

4) If you're involved in an RP thread, or if you're running one, please keep in mind that God-Mode RPing is for sissies who can't write their way out of a jam. There will be no God-Moding. At all. God-Moders will be spanked, and not in a pleasant way.

5) You do NOT have to ask me to start an RP. Just go ahead and start it. If you think you can handle more than one and not have the quality of them drop off, go for it. Just remember that all previous rules apply, as well as any others that may come up. 3nodding

More guidelines may be added, if necessary, but I like to think that's more than enough for people to understand how things work.

Yep.

Post away! heart
PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:58 am


Minor addition to this thread, as it has occured to me that not all people know what God Moding is.

God Moding is when your character has an insight they wouldn't/does something they cannot (ie, it's just not in their abilities to do so, it's outside the RP's conventions, or disallowed by game master restriction), suddenly gains a new and fantastic power, reads someone else's mind without consent of character creator...

...or you, while writing for them and another person fill in the other person's actions/speech without asking them first. It's okay to say you throw a punch, but don't automatically claim said punch connects with a violent force and throws them across a room. This version of God Moding can be for something as small as forcing a character to order a drink the owner didn't want them to without asking, or as large as killing a character in combat without running it past the owner first.

Please, if you are in doubt about what you're typing in your RP, PM either myself, the thread's game master or the other character's owner to ask if what you're typing is acceptable, non-God Mode material.

Thank you! heart

Cranium Squirrel
Vice Captain

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Tyjora

PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:24 am


Byaggha
Minor addition to this thread, as it has occurred to me that not all people know what God Moding is.

God Moding is when your character has an insight they wouldn't/does something they cannot (ie, it's just not in their abilities to do so, it's outside the RP's conventions, or disallowed by game master restriction), suddenly gains a new and fantastic power, reads someone else's mind without consent of character creator...

...or you, while writing for them and another person fill in the other person's actions/speech without asking them first. It's okay to say you throw a punch, but don't automatically claim said punch connects with a violent force and throws them across a room. This version of God Moding can be for something as small as forcing a character to order a drink the owner didn't want them to without asking, or as large as killing a character in combat without running it past the owner first.

Please, if you are in doubt about what you're typing in your RP, PM either myself, the thread's game master or the other character's owner to ask if what you're typing is acceptable, non-God Mode material.

Thank you! heart


Okay, I am fully aware of God Moding is, but I always had the impression that taking control of another's character, whether with actions, speech, or thoughts, was known as "Bunnying". Personally, I'm not sure where the term originated, so don't ask.

I understood God Moding as doing the impossible, like killing a complete army of foes with a simple spell. Those who do it have no need for anyone else in the RP, so it kills all the fun anyway. If you say it to include the aspects of Bunnying on these forums, then so be it.

...Okay, that's all I wanted to say...
PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 10:27 am


Whatever it is, whatever name it goes by, it's still being disallowed under the God Moding rule. Period. This is mainly because personally, I see puppeteering someone else's character without their consent to be akin to doing something you normally couldn't - effectively, being God. 3nodding

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