Post by ~Kootry~ on Jan 9, 2012 20:43:56 GMT -5
Firstly, I did not write this guide, It is a very helpful and informative guide that I have personally use to revamp my roleplaying experience.
Hello! I have created a guide to help players understand and hopefully help improve there Role-playing skills. In this guide I will give you a few Tips and Rules to RPing. From creating your character, to getting a good reputation with others. Follow my guide and I assure you, you will become a pro in no time.
First thing you need to do is make a good first impression. When you make a good impression with another player, it will increase the chance of them RPing with you. How do you do this? Well I will tell you...
[Grammar]: Grammar makes a HUGE difference between people wanting to RP with you, and people calling you a Noob. Using correct spelling and capitalization, and throwing in a few big words will get you some brownie points. If you have someone using L33T or faces :3 in RPing, it instantly makes the other player feel like you are childish and not up to a serious RP. But, if you use correct spelling and use a wide vocabulary, people will instantly give you more respect.
Right way of RPing: *Looks to the stranger approaching Him/Her with a smile. He/she gives the stranger a small wave. "Hail! May I help you with something?"
The -WRONG- way: yo sup? i am uberl33t yo n i kan kil pplz betr than u
The difference is quite obvious...
[Using EMOTES]: Emotes are always a plus, it adds a sense of life to the RP and makes things more realistic. It also helps the other player understand what you are doing. Short emotes like "*cuffs" Or "*bored" Are bad examples of Emotes. What makes a good emote then? Well... "*holds the worn dagger in his/her hand. He/She runs their fingers along the cold steel, seeming let their mind wander." That gives a player a good first impression.
[Just being nice OOCly] Being nice OOCly will make others want to RP with you, and wait for you to get online just to RP with you again. If you are nice OOCly and love to socialize... Well guess what? (+10 brownie points) :3)
Now you know how to make a good first impression... I am going to teach you how to make a good character and how to RP like a pro
[How to build a character]: It's smart to build a character off events that have happened to her/him. Say for example... Let's say you character gets into a fight with someone else, and they happen to get cut along their lip. You character would likely now have a scar there. Scars build character, they show your character has been through a lot and has experience. When a character has an important event happen to them, you do not just ignore it. Find ways to fix the solution ICly or just live with the problem. Problems build character, for example... My character (Natheus) Had his hands removed by some guards. I decided to go with him having no hands for the moment. He cannot use swords since he had no hands, so I thought for a moment. I decided to turn him to necromancy and magic to make up for his lack of hands. Things like this make a huge difference in the development of your character.
[Do not be afraid to lose!]: Losing a fight is not necessarily bad. In fact, it's a chance to open new RPing possibilities. Take my character for example, he lost his hands. This makes RPing interesting and fun! Now I can choose how my character will deal with this, I could either make him deal with it, or he could find ways to get hands again. I made him turn to necromancy, to make up for the lack of hands. He needs someway of defending himself so he must use magic. Over time he may even find ways of using dark magic to regrow hands, or even attach hands from a corpse to his own body. Things like this make your character unique and professional.
[Make sense!]: When I RP, a majority of people that make no sense what-so-ever. When you RP, you must take your characters abilities, and limits to account. If you character is the agile type, he/she will most likely dodge slow attacks and will definitely not beat a roid-ragin' Orc in a arm wrestling competition. You cannot make your character some "invincible god-like uber l33t badass" that can take on the kingdom of Oren alone. It's just not going to happen, get over it (Only I am capable of such awesome power... Lol jk :3). Anyway, just be fair, have a weakness, and just enjoy this game for what it really is... A game.
[Do not Metagame/Powergame!]: Firstly I am just going to give you the dictionary definition of metagameing, "Metagaming can be defined as any out of character action made by a player's character which makes use of knowledge that the character is not meant to be aware of. (Metagaming while taking part in relatively competitive games, or those with a more serious tone, is typically not well received, because a character played by a metagamer does not act in a way that reflects the character's in-game experiences and back-story.)"With that stated, You now know what metagameing is. In more common words it it using OOC information IC. For example, If I Kootry said I was in the Thieves Guild OOC, Your character dose not know that. So you cant go up to me in character and say. "Hey, You! I heard you where in the Thieves Guild, Can I join?". That would be a prime example of metagameing. Metagameing is also relevant when you die and type /back. That would also be considered metagaeming because when you die, Your character forgets the events that lead up to his death.
Now on to powergameing, I could not find a dictionary definition that show'ed powergameing in the way I intend to describe it. Basically powergameing is giving your character, unfair/un-realistic traits. Such as, having super strength where you can pickup houses with one hand. Firstly, that is just plainly unrealistic. Secondly it is unfair because it dose not make scene that your character can do those things but other character's cant. There is some exceptions to powergameing. For example, The Archmage. He is a prime example, he knows all the magic which most characters don't. The reason he is a exception is because he teaches the magic to other characters, which makes scene. Some form's that are commonly seen as powergameing is coming back from the dead. Or when your character "doesn't die". On more strict roleplay server's you will get banned instantly for power or meta gaming. Aside from getting banned you ruin the whole RP experience for yourself and the players around you. In conclusion, don't do it.
ROLE-PLAYING GUIDE!
Hello! I have created a guide to help players understand and hopefully help improve there Role-playing skills. In this guide I will give you a few Tips and Rules to RPing. From creating your character, to getting a good reputation with others. Follow my guide and I assure you, you will become a pro in no time.
First thing you need to do is make a good first impression. When you make a good impression with another player, it will increase the chance of them RPing with you. How do you do this? Well I will tell you...
[Grammar]: Grammar makes a HUGE difference between people wanting to RP with you, and people calling you a Noob. Using correct spelling and capitalization, and throwing in a few big words will get you some brownie points. If you have someone using L33T or faces :3 in RPing, it instantly makes the other player feel like you are childish and not up to a serious RP. But, if you use correct spelling and use a wide vocabulary, people will instantly give you more respect.
Right way of RPing: *Looks to the stranger approaching Him/Her with a smile. He/she gives the stranger a small wave. "Hail! May I help you with something?"
The -WRONG- way: yo sup? i am uberl33t yo n i kan kil pplz betr than u
The difference is quite obvious...
[Using EMOTES]: Emotes are always a plus, it adds a sense of life to the RP and makes things more realistic. It also helps the other player understand what you are doing. Short emotes like "*cuffs" Or "*bored" Are bad examples of Emotes. What makes a good emote then? Well... "*holds the worn dagger in his/her hand. He/She runs their fingers along the cold steel, seeming let their mind wander." That gives a player a good first impression.
[Just being nice OOCly] Being nice OOCly will make others want to RP with you, and wait for you to get online just to RP with you again. If you are nice OOCly and love to socialize... Well guess what? (+10 brownie points) :3)
Now you know how to make a good first impression... I am going to teach you how to make a good character and how to RP like a pro
[How to build a character]: It's smart to build a character off events that have happened to her/him. Say for example... Let's say you character gets into a fight with someone else, and they happen to get cut along their lip. You character would likely now have a scar there. Scars build character, they show your character has been through a lot and has experience. When a character has an important event happen to them, you do not just ignore it. Find ways to fix the solution ICly or just live with the problem. Problems build character, for example... My character (Natheus) Had his hands removed by some guards. I decided to go with him having no hands for the moment. He cannot use swords since he had no hands, so I thought for a moment. I decided to turn him to necromancy and magic to make up for his lack of hands. Things like this make a huge difference in the development of your character.
[Do not be afraid to lose!]: Losing a fight is not necessarily bad. In fact, it's a chance to open new RPing possibilities. Take my character for example, he lost his hands. This makes RPing interesting and fun! Now I can choose how my character will deal with this, I could either make him deal with it, or he could find ways to get hands again. I made him turn to necromancy, to make up for the lack of hands. He needs someway of defending himself so he must use magic. Over time he may even find ways of using dark magic to regrow hands, or even attach hands from a corpse to his own body. Things like this make your character unique and professional.
[Make sense!]: When I RP, a majority of people that make no sense what-so-ever. When you RP, you must take your characters abilities, and limits to account. If you character is the agile type, he/she will most likely dodge slow attacks and will definitely not beat a roid-ragin' Orc in a arm wrestling competition. You cannot make your character some "invincible god-like uber l33t badass" that can take on the kingdom of Oren alone. It's just not going to happen, get over it (Only I am capable of such awesome power... Lol jk :3). Anyway, just be fair, have a weakness, and just enjoy this game for what it really is... A game.
[Do not Metagame/Powergame!]: Firstly I am just going to give you the dictionary definition of metagameing, "Metagaming can be defined as any out of character action made by a player's character which makes use of knowledge that the character is not meant to be aware of. (Metagaming while taking part in relatively competitive games, or those with a more serious tone, is typically not well received, because a character played by a metagamer does not act in a way that reflects the character's in-game experiences and back-story.)"With that stated, You now know what metagameing is. In more common words it it using OOC information IC. For example, If I Kootry said I was in the Thieves Guild OOC, Your character dose not know that. So you cant go up to me in character and say. "Hey, You! I heard you where in the Thieves Guild, Can I join?". That would be a prime example of metagameing. Metagameing is also relevant when you die and type /back. That would also be considered metagaeming because when you die, Your character forgets the events that lead up to his death.
Now on to powergameing, I could not find a dictionary definition that show'ed powergameing in the way I intend to describe it. Basically powergameing is giving your character, unfair/un-realistic traits. Such as, having super strength where you can pickup houses with one hand. Firstly, that is just plainly unrealistic. Secondly it is unfair because it dose not make scene that your character can do those things but other character's cant. There is some exceptions to powergameing. For example, The Archmage. He is a prime example, he knows all the magic which most characters don't. The reason he is a exception is because he teaches the magic to other characters, which makes scene. Some form's that are commonly seen as powergameing is coming back from the dead. Or when your character "doesn't die". On more strict roleplay server's you will get banned instantly for power or meta gaming. Aside from getting banned you ruin the whole RP experience for yourself and the players around you. In conclusion, don't do it.
