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 Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 4:36 pm
I've noticed that a lot of Roleplaying threads that claim to be literate have minimum length in their rules. Sometimes I don't think that length is good. Take a roleplayed fight, sometimes people put too many moves in a post, so you don't have time to act in response. This can bother me a lot. What are your opinions?
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Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 2:19 am
Well...I don't think one-liners should be allowed in literate roleplaying threads. But that should probably be the only "minimum" post length limitation. After all, it's fairly difficult to carry out a conversation if you have to post 5 sentences or more at a time. It just doesn't make the conversation flow naturally.
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Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 5:49 pm
Gotta go with the one liners bit. It makes for good conversation, but if you're in the middle of a fight, only execute ONE MOVE!!
Makes things work easier IMO.
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 3:00 pm
Dr. Kool Take a roleplayed fight, sometimes people put too many moves in a post, so you don't have time to act in response. And then your responce is to their first thing, which means all the others don't count, and they lose 2 pages of typing because they got trigger-happy. Not your problem, really.
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 6:08 am
themightyjello Dr. Kool Take a roleplayed fight, sometimes people put too many moves in a post, so you don't have time to act in response. And then your responce is to their first thing, which means all the others don't count, and they lose 2 pages of typing because they got trigger-happy. Not your problem, really. I dunno... that seems a bit rude... but I guess it would work...
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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 6:27 am
The fact that you have a certain amount of requirement bothers me abit. Say you had something going on at home, and your thoughts for the roleplay turned into a major block in your writing mode, thus writer's block. You can't write paragraphs of nothing if you can't think...it ruins the the roleplay and what could have happened because you couldn't think
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Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 6:52 am
I tend to dislike rules like that, but then again I like giving people the chance to learn to be better. It always makes the thread creator and other players look stuck up, although I know they just want to play with high quality players. But length of post seems so superficial! The only good it seems to do is scare away people who can barely string two sentences together-- AND know it.
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Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 11:49 am
I think one line should be accepted as long as they don't occur ALL the time. I'm in a lot of very dramatic rps and they work for very dramatic conversations and actions. Sometimes you don't need to draw things out.
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Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 5:15 pm
I dislike minimum requirements in post lengh because I think it leads to really trite writing, and games falling apart.
Honestly - I don't care what your "azure orbs" are stairing at, or what happened to your character 15 years ago when her parents were slayn by Cobolds on a pirate ship. It's dull, and usually has very little to do with the situation. Write to the lengh you need to convey your thoughts at that time. No more, no less. If you can effectivly and eloquently get your point across in two sentences, more power too you.
As for games falling apart - Who want's to be in a story where they feel obligated to write for 15 minutes before they feel they have something decent to imput? It makes for less posts-per-session, and that's just boring.
I think there's a big misconception that more writing = better. It doesnt.
Someone who can properly sum up a situation in two sentences is a better writer than someone who takes half a page to do it. There's also a big misconception surrounding the word "Literate". It's expanded from not using chat-speak, to writing a freaking novel everytime you sit down to post. It's rediculous.
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Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 5:56 pm
That pretty much sums up what I think.
There's bad Rping
There's good Rping
And then there's the oh-so-eloquently-beautiful-everyone-cries-at-their-lack-of-verbatum Rping. (Also known as Hard-Core.)
I like the second option.
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School Of Dedicated RPers Captain
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Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 8:25 am
HAHA
xd
"Literate" doesn't mean any thing to the general populace. It can mean any thing from being about to write phrases in english to writing a novel every time you post. Since I prefer RPs over aim that is simply impractical. Yet at the same time I have been known to enjoy long posts. So it's just like auren said!
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Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 4:35 pm
i can't stand one liners, but no more than 3 actions at a time.
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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 7:30 am
UTFAN92_06 i can't stand one liners, but no more than 3 actions at a time. Do you mean in battle? And certainly you mean only very active actions, not passive ones like staring?
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Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 2:25 am
Personally, I don't see how one can have proper character development without posting fairly long... At least if they are able to do so. I, for one, despise doing one-liners.... And responding to them. 'Cause then there's not much to respond to and therefore not much to have your character react to.
I mean, I understand entirely how it could be freaking annoying to try and do a battle rp in which someone does like... twenty moves during thier post... But there's always other things the character could be doing... Like studying thier opponent's stance... Watching them for weaknesses... Reacting to the pain of the other person's previous strike.. Stuff like that. And for the watching for weaknesses thing, I don't mean that the rper should sit there and make something up, I just mean state that they are watching for weaknesses.
Yes, in some instances long posts can be dull, but if they are done right there can be alot of enrichment and even sometimes amusement from long posts... And, at least for me, long posts help give me a better understanding of my character...
But then, that's just my opinion on the subject... And for minimum length, my preference is just a paragraph for most... Three sentences at the least with occaisional one-liners permitted if the rper is having troubles thinking of something to post. *shrugs*
Sorry, I'm a bit chatty. o-o
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Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 6:12 pm
I actually had a minor problem the other day where I wanted to write a longer post but I needed to give the other character a chance to react if they wanted to do something drastic in the drastic situation we had set up. Then they didn't want to, so they ended up posting what amounts to a one-liner compared to the lengths we had been having. LOL but it wasn't his fault because if his character didn't want to pick a fight he couldn't do much else but stand there....
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