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 Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 3:51 am
Ah, hello there, pardon the mess, I'm really just getting started here. All the pretty formating and such will come in later, for now please ignore this! Or, if you wish, send me PM's of what you think about the guide so far; constructive criticism is very useful.
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Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 3:52 am
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Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 4:02 am
Terms used in the text:
BT : Barton Town
OOC: Out Of Character
IC: In Character
OC: Original Character, characters created by roleplayers.
CC: Canon Characters, characters that are from a pre-existing story published in any medium.
RPL: Roleplaying Level, a little system I cooked up to separate roleplayers into categories dependant on their level of ability. Personally I find the old system of categorizing roleplayers into levels of literacy archaic and offensive. “Literate” by definition is the ability to read and write; there’s no such thing as “semi-literate” nor “elite-literate” in the world of RPing. If you can read this, you are literate, period.
L1 Roleplayers: L1 Roleplayers are the true newbies, those who are just getting up on their feet with RPing, delivering one-liners with large-to-moderate grammatical errors.
L2 Roleplayers: L2 Roleplayers are more seasoned newbies, still falling prey to one-liners, however able to type up partial paragraphs with moderate-to-little grammatical errors.
L3 Roleplayers: L3 Roleplayers are a little-less than average roleplayers you’d see on BT, who are able to type up at least a paragraph with little-to-no grammatical errors. This is a stage in which roleplayers like to start making up their own roleplays.
L4 Roleplayers: L4 Roleplayers are more-or-less the average roleplayers of BT, who are able to easily type up more than a paragraph, but not exceeding 3 paragraphs with the occasional grammatical error.
L5 Roleplayers: L5 Roleplayers are the above-average roleplayers who are able to produce at least two paragraphs, even with the strain of writer’s block on them with an occasional silly grammar mistake.
L6 Roleplayers: L6 Roleplayers are what you’d call the top brass, who are able to crank out basically a novella every post...personally I find such a roleplay level superfluous – seriously, who spends an entire paragraph describing how a single leaf falls from a tree?
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Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 4:03 am
Introduction
Why hello there! I’m Deviant Bias, a veteran roleplayer on Gaia for about four years now I believe. In my time, I have experienced the former pseudo-glory of Gaia’s Barton Town (Henceforth will now be referred to BT) and its gradual descent into a dried-up hell. If you were to look at the BT with my standards, or with something close to it, you would find absolutely nothing of value; for the most part half-assed threads destined to die within a week’s time are the main residents of BT. There is the occasional oasis gem in a vast, vast desert, such as the RP I am in currently, however they are very hard to find.
Today, I hope to mark some sort of origin in the gradual recovery of the BT, starting with you, the denizens of BPLB. Whether this is simply a vain attempt to resurrect something long since dead and a complete waste of my time, or the planting of a glorious seed of life is up to you, the readers of this text. I hope you take my words to heart if they make sense to you, for this is the product of my recollections of the past four years, created through my experiences and made towards a better future of Gaia.
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Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 4:29 am
Lesson 1: Types of Successful Roleplays
There are multiple types of “successful” roleplays out there, and if you were to comb through the BT, you would most likely find a specimen of each of these types.
Type A Success
-Type A Success is probably the rarest of all Roleplays on the face of Gaia, wherein it consists of a small, dedicated bunch of roleplayers no less than five and no more than twenty. Said roleplayers have made friends amongst themselves in the OOC, contributing to dedication and adding an incentive to reply with some amount of promptness.
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