Sammeh
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 |  Subject: How to Roleplay. (MUST READ)  Wed May 04, 2011 3:15 pm | |
| Hi guys, I am the Founder of Demi-God Academy and PROUD OF IT!!!! I used a fellow forum of mine Called Camp Half Blood and replaced some key components to better suit DGA's feel...What roleplaying is and how I do it
Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Roleplaying is well...have you ever heard the expression, "Let's Roleplay! I call [ insert name here ]!" Well...it's acting something out. But on forums it's playing a character. For instance, I might write:
Grace wrote:
I turned around and looked at the girl. She was nice enough to me...but I don't think I'd want to take her on a quest. I didn't know if I could trust her yet.
Literacy:
Here is a problem we come up against ALOT here at DGA. For instance here's a bad example of roleplaying:
Kitty wrote:
i turned around and looked at the girl.She was nice enough to me.............but i dont think Id want to take her on a quest.i didnt know if i could trust her yet.
I will stab anybody painfully if I see that. No, I'm kidding. I won't stab you. I'll just super pissed. It's called grammar. Learn it. If you're stupid, then go read a book and learn basic 8th grade English.
Powerplaying
Something you shouldn't do is powerplaying. Powerplaying is when you take control of another character. This can be very aggravating, especially if the person does something annoying. For example:
Grace wrote:
I gritted my teeth angrily at the girl whom I spoke about earlier. She was now glaring at me. Yeah, ok so what if I chose someone else over her. I glared back at her and she ran away screaming from my death glare.
WHO DOES THAT?!
Out of Character
There's no way to tell whether you're adding something to your post that's out of character, so the inventors of the online roleplay made up Out Of Character, or OOC. You can use OOC to suggest what to do to the other person, to comment on something, or basically anything. Here's an example of a roleplay with OOC:
Grace wrote:
I gritted my teeth angrily at the girl whom I spoke about earlier. She was now glaring at me. Yeah, ok so what if I chose someone else over her. I glared back at her.
~This is the part where you can run away screaming.
And then she might say:
Jess wrote:
OOC: sure! haha, my uncle just burned a cake...gotta go help him :0
BIC:I stared back at the girl. She was giving me the death glare. I fled from the pavilion scremaing.
As you probably can figure out, BIC means back in character. Some people use different symbols for playing out of character. Like: ~ - * % $ @ # !. Ect.
Double Posting
One thing I don't like is double-posting. Or triple-, quadruple-, googolplex-posting, whatever. When you do multiple posts without anyone else posting, it looks really sloppy and bad. So don't multiple-post. Just don't do it.
Length of Posts
I also hate it when people do really short posts, like:
Grace wrote:
I lace up my sneakers.
And then they double post:
Grace:
I get ready to run.
Princess wrote:
I start running.
Grace wrote:
I finish running and sit down.
And so on... and it gets quite boring to read. Please put some effort into your posts; if you're going to post like that, combine it all into one post. I'm not saying your post has to be lecture-long, just make it interesting to read. ALL POSTS MUST BE AT LEAST FOUR SENTENCES LONG.
cassie wrote:
I lace up my sneakers and get ready to run, stretching down to my toes. I start running and run for about five minutes. I'm already exhausted, so I finish running and sit down, gulping down my water. I start thinking about what kind of running machines they might have outside of camp so I can go on them when I'm not here.
I want to thank Camp Half Blood for their Roleplaying Rules. THANKS!!  | |
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