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Where You Can Help.

There are many areas of the School of Dedicated RolePlayers guild where we could use your help. We have new members joining every week, even on a slow week. On a busy day, we have hundreds of new join requests. Many of these join requests express a desire to learn more about RPing, whether the person joining has just heard the term for the first time or has been RPing for years. Many of these members actively seek your help once they are accepted into the guild, but there are many places that they can do this. Below you can find the forums and stickies that can most use your critiquing skills.

If you have any questions, you can PM any of our mods, which you can find a list of at the bottom of the guild home page.

The Main Forum
RP Awards Sticky - Here we need people willing to give honest critiques of RPs that win or are nominated for awards.
Other Side RP Sticky - Ask our mod, folchinator, if he can use your help critiquing posts in this RP designed to help RPers improve.

Questions, Answers, and Tutors
This whole forum could use your help-- that's what it's for! This is the main place that people in the guild go to for answers to their questions and to find tutors.
RP Tutors! - Post here to offer your services as a personal tutor.
Role Playing Guide - Post advice for RPers here.
Helpful Threads - Post any resources for RPers here.

Character Development
This is a subforum where people post their characters. Most people want critiques of their character profiles, so please have at it!
We could also use help nominating character profiles for awards given out in the main forum.
Character Building Guides and Assistance

Writing Subforum
The whole point of this subforum is to critique and improve writing. People post RP and story excerpts here and many would appreciate your help.
The Writer's Forum (The Critiquing)
The Writer's Forum (Journal Critique)
The Writer's Forum Collaboration
Writer's Forum Tips

One-On-One Role Playing
In this forum, we could use your help nominating RPers and RPs for the awards given out in the main forum. If you wish to offer a critiquing service of some sort in this subforum, talk to one of our mods about it.

Level 2: Intermediate
We could use your help nominating RPs and RPers from this subforum for the awards given out in the main forum.
Advertise Here - Use this sticky to advertise your services!

Level 1: Beginner
We could use your help nominating RPs and RPers from this subforum for the awards given out in the main forum.
Advertise Here - Use this sticky to advertise your services!

Resources for Critiquing.

Sometimes the best thing that you can do for a person is direct them to resources designed to help people improve their RPing or writing. You can direct them to the stickies, or to these other helpful resources:

General Writing Help:
http://www.spellcheck.net/
http://lilt.ilstu.edu/golson/punctuation/
http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/punct.html
Idea Box
Helpful Writing Tips for All
Commonly Misspelled Words
Description

General RP Knowledge:
http://rbg.freepgs.com/WhatIsRP.ppt
Roleplaying? What is it? by Bartjj
Resources
Role Play Dictionary by Final Nova
Advanced RP Dictionary by Final Nova

Character Creation:
The Character Help Thread
The Character Creation Thread
The How-To
Character Creation/Roleplaying Guide
Character Concept by Fenrir Songmoon
Naming Your Character by Fenrir Songmoon
Race of your Character by Fenrir Songmoon
Immortal Characters by Fenrir Songmoon
Class on Villians by Fenrir Songmoon
Character Development Exercises by Penden
How to Create an Original Character by Vincent Darkholme
100 Qs For Your Character Profile

Joining:
Choosing an RP to Join by Eileen

Creating and Running RPs:
The Opening by Kai Karasurei

Other Roleplaying Guides:
Engaging Other Players
Time in an RP
Introduction to Godmodding
Do's And Don'ts of Being Taken Seriously as an RPer
Tramatic Injury
Integrating Your Character Into Your Posts
Playing a Female Character
RP Combat

I'd say I'm a bit of both. I offer myself as a tutor, if one needs one, but I will critique as I please. 3nodding

I don't quite know what to say about my tutor or crtic ways. I a bit mixed. I criticize to help them understand what may be holding back a character from true potetial then again as I do that I will tutor and help them slightly with a little more by maybe giving them a website or a search that may help them place their character in complete alignment. I honestly also have charcters that need work, but Im willing to teach my method of going about each character I create. Simply put it wouldn't hurt to do a little research on a certain power, or personality, maybe even the bio, but always be sure that the character's name if not randomly picked to sound correct is fit for the personality, background, powers, and etc.

Thank You and my name is Ti'Shane

I was trying to help my online bff to improve his rp skills...but he just gave up and said he was rubish...any tips on how to perusade him that he is making more progress than he thinks?
((he is good at roleplay, he just needs to know a bit more about it))