What's Roleplay?

[Rigel]

y hello tharr.

Not know how to roleplay? Here's some hints and tips!

Well, overall, roleplay is to be the character you are.

Definitions-

OOC- Out of character- You are not roleplaying. You are just chatting.
IC- In Character- You ARE roleplaying.
RP- Roleplay- To play the character you created.

Now, to roleplay. Look at the landscape you are in. Describe carefully in your post what you are doing what you see and smell, perhaps, if eating, what you taste! When joining a dream and they ask for a roleplay post, try to do the best you can ever do. *Hint* five sentances (Aka, a basic paragraph) will do better than a one liner.

Good Example.

Rigel sniffed the warm desert air. On the palace balcony, she saw the bright stars glittering around a thin crescent moon. The Egyptian Mau's golden eyes twinkled with some of the stars. Indigo sky streched for miles. If the sand and the night sky were to race, it would go on forever. Taking a deep breath, she jumped off the stone bars that were there to prevent people from falling off and walked past the yellow silk curtains into her round, soft bed. Closing her eyes, she thought of what to do for tomorrow.

Bad Examples.

Rigel yawns. (Actually this isn't very bad if nothing is going on in roleplay, but some could do better.)

Rigel slashes the emenie's throat and levs him to die on the floor. (God modding. No, this is just an example. I never did this or I wouldn't be in the dream.)

So there you have it, a brief description of roleplaying.

[Hazel Forrest]

Lyke, pwnsum bt hou do i strt?

Well first off we need to create a character that isn't Inuyasha's Gurl 666 Kay? Let's start with something easy: Tom Smith. Lengthen it: Thomas Smithen. Add cool stuff: Thomason Smithen-Jien. (Mine started out from "Z" from Invader Zim. Then Zeta, then Zeta Joy, then Zeta Zoy.)

Try to make the character act like you. If you like, say, computer programming make him a mage. If you like blogging, a scribe. Swimming, a water-bearer. I could go on for years. Power crazy and money-hoarding: a golden queen! xP Well IRL Bob likes fencing so let's make him a swordsman.

So we've got Tom's rank, now we need Tom's personality. But before we go there, we need to find what SHAPED his personality. We need to find his history. My Faire person for example. My parents are divorced, so here's my char history:

She was disowned from her parents at the age of 8. Her parents had nothing to do with eachother anymore, so one sold her to a man (My dad) and one sold her to a couple of musicians (My mom+stepdad). She was sneaky, and so she snuck from adopted parent to adopted parent... and she pretended to be deaf so no one would suspect her. No one knows but her friends.

Yayzorz. So make it associate with your life a bit. And also make reasons for their personality/abilities/quirks in their history.

Ok cool. We've got the history (It doesn't have to be 5 pages like most are). Now like... we need a personality. Did Tom get beaten when he was a kid so he's real shy? Was he a trained swordsman from birth or is he an apprentice? Is he nice to animals? Does he have a grudge on humanity for killing his clan? (Please no...)

Anywho... we've got that. Now take some of that history and mold that piece of clay into his desc. Dos and Don'ts of descriptions here: abania.proboards50.com/index.cgi?board=mustknow&action=display&thread=1175649857. Are there any marks from Tom's past? Did he get a tattoo? Was he beaten up by bandits recently? [shadow=Black,left,300]Was the sun so hot he has horrible bright red burn marks on him? (Sorry having fun with shadow)[/shadow]
You press that enter button and enter his name. You appear in Naia Green after creating Tom. THANK YOU OH GOD MY SAVIOR! I'M FINISHED!!!! WHOOPIEAYEYAY *Goes to celebrate with build-a-home, base capture, and netspeak* Nononono! You have to use that character! Help with storylines, or just hang our at the taavern with a glass of wine! [But remember those brackets!]