Jigajig
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| 11 Aug 2012 07:27 AM |
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shadowi83
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Jigajig
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| 11 Aug 2012 07:54 AM |
In fact! Here's a guide for you new people!
What is Roleplaying?
Remember when you were little and you used to play dress-up or "pretend"? Roleplaying is an advanced version of that game. Roleplaying is a way for people to express themselves and their creativity while having fun at the same time. Roleplaying was popularized with Dungeons and Dragons, a pen-and-paper (PnP) RPG. Since the dawn of the computer age, roleplaying has shifted from board games to video games to online forums such as this one.
Different Types of Roleplayers
Anti-Roleplayers
These players will deliberately go out of their way to ruin your immersion and experience. They do so by forum trolling signified roleplay posts, spamming roleplals or other annoyances that distract from your roleplaying experience. Basically, the AR is the kid knocking over sand castles at the beach; they can't be bothered putting effort into building something up, so they'll feel better if they destroy someone else's work. While the AR seeks to show some kind of superiority to get you to buckle, ignoring their subversion is the best response. Find a really big rock and build your sand castle around it.
Indifferent to Roleplaying
These players seek neither to create nor destroy other peoples roleplaying experience. Some that fall into this category may want to roleplay, or at least experiment from time to time this guide is mainly for you.
Light Roleplayer
Ah, this is where it starts to get fun! Welcome to the first tier of playing a character. Light roleplaying is when you start to modify your responses to seem more appropriate for your character. Light roleplay usually involves characters that are very similar in personality to you, as to take some of the complexity away from the experience. To some people, this is a good balance between what is enjoyable without being pedantic
A Medium-Light Roleplayer is, as the name implies, sandwiched somewhere between a Medium Roleplayer and a Light Roleplayer. Generally, they are Light Roleplayers but display characteristics of a Medium one, such as a developed back-story or their character differs somewhat from their own personality. However, unlike medium ones, and like light ones, they have few issues with shattering their own immersion.
Medium Roleplayer
A bit of a step up, here are some of the differences to a light roleplayer. Medium Roleplayers usually have a back-story for their character that explains their past. This past helps to define the character in present and future actions. Of course when you begin a CS as a new person you would have BIO yes but maybe not a detailed.
Heavy Roleplayer
Ah the Heavy Roleplayers also known as Veterans of RP.
Immersion is paramount to the heavy roleplayer, as their entire enjoyment comes out of this. A heavy roleplayer will not stand for ARs, and even IRs to a degree.. A heavy roleplayer will always have a backstory, a clear sense of character, and a strong intention on future for a character. A HR character is ever changing, making their mark on the world and letting the world mould their character. These guys are sometimes looked up to as rolemodels as they have the experience of RPing for a long time. They usually make long detailed RP's, CS and posts.
Now for things to look out for..
Mary Sues!!!!!!!!
One main risk in creating a character is creating a Mary Sue. There are many definitions of a Mary Sue (Mary sue definition at Wikipedia might help give you a better idea). A Mary Sue is basically a character made with more idealization than logic, so perfect you want to kill them or try to steal the spotlight with their drama. Mary Sue has what we'd all like in a real person - niceness, a wide range of skills, charm, attractiveness - but not a fictional one. Mary Sues are usually kind, righteous, have a heart-string-yanking past, more skills than they should and are prone to godmodding. They might be propped up with 'interesting' traits, such as having a 'curse' which only serves to enhance their abilities, a lineage involving a canon character, a hybridism of different species or even going as far as creating their own race or mix up aspects (or indeed use the full aspect) of non-existant ones such as Aliens and Terminators
Troll
Ah yes the "Troll"
These are people who love nothing more than to spam, annoy, and be generlly mean to you. They are to ignored at all times even when they are going "OMGGADSGJSDG JDGFSDF I LKZ SPAAAAAAAMINGF HRFHGSFDGDFIGIW TROLOLOLOLOL :D" Do NOT FEED THEM!
This concludes the guide thank you and goodnight
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| 12 Aug 2012 08:59 PM |
| LOOL. "That's not what a troll is that's what a tard is." |
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