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This place is where we, the experienced roleplayers, will teach you to roleplay with succesion! Follow our rules and guidelines and you will be good too (we hope) and you will be able to roleplay freely, and create and join RPs.

As someone who has participated in multiple rps, take my advice. The more detail, the better grammar, and spelling you have, the more people will want to role play with you. Check your spelling, punctuation before you submit your posts. Also, make sure that you post has plenty of details. If the post looks too short, add material! For instance, if you post this.... "Mike walked up to Mary and said 'what are you doing after school?'

Replace it with...." Mike sauntered closer to Mary, the girl he sat next to in class. He had had a crush on her since the year began. 'So,...' Mike said nervously. 'What are you up to after school?' "

This offers a better image of what the character is doing, and gives a sense of emotion. It also gives the other play more to work off of.

I say these things from experience, and personal preference. Doing these things also makes you look more intelligent.

Some finess from Magitrix U.


Also remember to convey emotions when you RP. "Oh my goodness" is not very strinking. "OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!" she yelled, trying to catch the glass bulb before it fell...is much more powerful.


Please also remember puntuation. It is very hard to read your posts when you are all over the place with bad grammar and you start and end new sentenceces and don't use commas and have one big run on sentence. (Sort of what I just did to give you an example of how bothersome that can be).

One last thing to bear in mind is that sometimes you do need to talk out of character (OOC) in one of our roleplaying forums. You can do this by using brackets [], or double parenthesis (()). This helps us to know that you're not talking as Bobby, the crime fighting ninja superhero secret agents purple elephant, you're talking as yourself.


Now go on out there and use what I've taught you and make our forums a better place! smile

I can affirm to that...

Just check out page 214 of the "Be My Guardian Angel" Know where I got the level of detail from? BOOKS! I don't like bein' wordy, though...personally.

I like the Hunter: the Reckoning books...'cos they're relevant to that RP. But any book will do, as long as it pertains to the subject matter...

Like Lord of the Rings (ugh) for intricate details for a fantasy role-play...
Or Vampire: the Masquerade for the good stuff on a vampire role-play!

Of course, the internet is a good place to look up books, too. Even other RP communities online have that sort of detail n' stuff!

Hypocritical post is hypocritical!