When you Roleplay please post at least five lines per post. Do not try and give one liners.
1. Describe surroundings.
This is so everyone else in the topic gets a good feel for the area and so you can refer back to keep consistency this also saves people having to research the area or at least recognize the part your talking about.
2. Explain why your there.
There’s nothing more annoying then people who are just in places for the sake of being there. So make up a reason for it even if its a tad ludicrous its better then nothing. It also gives people an idea of how you plan for the topic to go.
3. Your thoughts on the current place.
Potentially you can put your description of the place here and then just your characters opinion of it but it doesn't have to be blatant either subtlety is good and as you get past the first hurdle of RP'ing you can develop your skills further.
4. Appearance.
Describe your character this makes Rp for others easier as they then can refer to your post in order to describe you and if their good enough they'll reword your description so it's not just copy and paste. By providing others with the information to improve their own RP your topic will look better and more people will want to join.
5. Do something.
Though speech is not necessary unless an NPC character is involved or you’re talking to yourself you can still run, jump or whatever. None of you seem to have a problem with this aspect merely the detail in which you describe your movements, remember the thesauruses are your best friend so use them and then dictionary to check the word you've found means what you want are. Whenever I’m stuck I always find the thesaurus and search for a good fitting word. A large vocabulary shows intelligence, we like intelligence. IF this continues, use the internet!
6. Weather and time.
Again there’s nothing more annoying then not knowing what time of day it is or the weather when you enter a topic. Is it sunny, is it dark? Is the sun beating down on your character bringing sweat to their brow or is the wind chilling the bone marrow itself evoking shivers from your characters body. Again there is more subtlety then “It was windy today". Remember description and setting make a RP people will appreciate you setting it out even if they don't voice it can make their turn easier.
Fri Mar 20, 2009 8:04 pm
