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 Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 1:32 am
.: General Rules :.
A few guidelines to follow in regards to the guild in general.Post Order:General Rules for Conduct and OOC Jabber
General Rules for RPing
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Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 1:56 am
.: General Rules for Conduct:.
Whether it is OOC debate or OOC jabber, remember these simple rules: 1. Respect your fellow man. I don't want to see any flaming. I don't want to see any namecalling. I don't want to see any incited arguments. We are all mature people, and we all know how to handle ourselves with a bit of dignity. Everyone has the right to their opinion, and everyone has the right to voice it, don't think that simply because you don't like someone, or because you disagree with what they think or how they go about things, that you can justify an attack against them. 2. Flaming = Getting burned. None of this. Ever. Don't bring an IC conflict OOC with you, don't start throwing insults because you're in a debate... I have no qualms about arguing amongst yourselves; after all, arguing is one of the best ways to learn about something and find ways to improve... but when a simple argument over something escalates into personal attacks, your a** is grass. 3. Freedom of speech. You are allowed to say whatever it is that you wish to say, without exception... except, of course, these exceptions. xd - If it violates the Gaia TOS to do so. - If it is a personal attack against another person. - If it violates common decency. Keep all talk PG-13, keep all other members as your homies, and respect the rights of others, just as they respect your own. 4. Keep OOC to the OOC thread. Unless you're tacking something onto the end of a post for clarity's sake... *Prompts his 'horrible example' machine.* An RPer once "Stand back, you wouldn't want to get in my way," Enrique said, bellowing out the words in a deep and resounding tone as he reached to the handle at his side and pulled Zaberfang from its sheath. (( Zaberfang is an enchanted gladius, it looks like the one Maximus used in the movie Gladiator, except that there are runes carved into the blade and they glow pale blue when the sword is out of its sheath. )) ...then keep it to the OOC thread. Jabber is jabber, RP is RP, don't mix the two when they shouldn't be, it just clutters the thread and takes up space. Things like this: *Revs the machine's engine, since he hadn't turned it off yet...* An old wise man once Sorry, dudes, but I gotta bail... I've been up like 47 hours and I just collapsed on my keyboard. sweatdrop Night, yo. ...should be kept to the OOC thread. 3nodding Thank you, come again. 4laugh blaugh
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Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 2:42 am
.: General Rules for RPing:.
If you're In Character, you're withIn the Jurisdiction of these rules.
Stay IJ while IC. 3nodding 1. Catch 22 Catch 22: You are allowed to do whatever it is somebody else can't stop you from doing.To put it bluntly, this is the single most important rule in roleplaying. To RP is to create an imaginary world... this world is made not just by you, but by everyone who has input into the situation... everyone involved, everyone who's ever interacted with your character or any of the characters that you have interacted with... like an STD. xd Whatever it is you post, that is how you see this world... but it is not the one truth of things, it still needs input from all the others around to make it reality in our imaginations. You throw in your two cents, they throw in theirs, and when all is said and done, you have a dime's worth of reality that makes 'fact'. Nothing is set in stone until all parties agree that what was written actually happened. When the two opinions differ, however, they need to find some way to agree. That is what the OOC thread is for. Debate to your heart's content over how things should go, but just know that simply because another person posts something towards you, it's not necessarilly true until you agree to the fact that it happened... 2. Speaking of agreeing... The 'agreeing' stated above can be done a number of ways, usually by including it in a post, such as stating that you were hit if someone attacked you... but it can also be taken as something of an 'auto-agree' if you fail to mention something. If person A posts that he opens the door and steps inside, and person B fails to mention in his post that the door was locked from the inside with a deadbolt (since it wasn't stated previously, because person A is too observant to overlook something like that), then the 'reality' of the situation is that the door was unlocked and person A was allowed in. Simple, yet effective. An easy way to guard against cheap maneuvers and mistakes made in the RPing without having to take it to a lengthy argument... ...the only requirement is that you act in a mature, responsible way. 3. Less is more. A wise man once "That's a very big sword he's got there... think maybe he's compensating for something? wink " When you first began roleplaying, everything seemed so large and intimidating in comparisson to what you thought it would be like... to be able to compete out there in the 'big world', you made a character that had a few cool abilities... ones that kept him alive, ones that let him win fights, ones that made him 'leet'... ...now it's time to grow up... Less is more. Exercise your ability and creativity by putting limits upon your characters... make them work within the box to achieve a goal outside of it... Take away the perfection and make them flawed... Give a character vices, quirks, and a tendancy to mix his words up when he speaks fast... Give them something to make them more real. Don't depend on handicaps to carry you through, ability and experience are what matter. Anyone can make a character who has power over three elements and can melt into shadow... But who can make one that has an almost paranoid fear of bright lights? Make your characters believable, make them people, and don't make them simple toys and weapons to be thrown at each other until one of them breaks. Less is more. ====================*Drags this out from the archives of Leviathan for posterity's sake.* Enki Leviathan Wise Words from Josh
And his many personalities...themightyjello ((Though I noted that like a dozen times you mentioned me not being online, and I was online the entire friggin' night... if you need me, hit me with AIM, cuz that's always on, YIM is on sometimes, and MSN seems to glitch like all hell, so don't even TRY that... If all else fails, send a PM... if it's before dawn on the western hemisphere then I'm probably here...)) WoGer Sepha ((OOC: Just inform me how to join. First in formost, since n00bs seems to be normal, please know that I have great experience. If joining requieres nothing more than a simple description of my character, then tell me so I can post it and get on with it. ^,_,^)) (( Simply put... claiming experience gets you jack s**t here. You get your base amount of 'given a chance' respect, though you can lose that pretty fast... Don't say how experienced you are, prove how mature you are. That's all I can say. Joining is moot, just enter like you would in a bar. 3nodding )) Finally Josh (( So, you don't really know anything specific about how you want the character, you just know that you want a multi-elemental? Or at last a multi-elemental user? I think the important things to start with are this: Who is the character? (Meaning, of course, what is the charater like? What makes him who he is? What drives him and makes him do what he does all the time? These are some things that you can only really develop through playing the character, but it's good to start with a general idea of what their personality should be, and work form that.) What is the character? (Meaning what IS he? Is he a human, an elemental, an elf, a demon, a vampire, a werewolf, a robot? What!? From that you can work on how the powers you want him to have would fit in...) What can he do? (Here's your powers... now, the important part is, you want the powers to somehow balance... Meaning that for every good, you have to have a bad, and for things like multiple elements, you have to accept the fact that because you're not using a single element, anyone who uses one of those elements as their only one will simply be BETTER than you at it by the rules of 'fair play and balanced characters'.) And beyond that, it's all really aesthetics. :shrug: )) Finally Josh ((Okay, first off, lets start with OOC and IC. IC, of course, would be roleplaying, when a character does something to interact with his environment or other characters. OOC is just the opposite, kinda like a teamchat feature when playing an online game. It doesn't affect the game itself, but the people playing can communicate nonetheless. Everyone here who is using: (( )) around their text is speaking OOC, and is therefore immune to any sort of violence you wish to inflict upon them, since they're not technically HERE as far as the game is concerned.)) Finally Josh (( Okay, the next part comes in detailing: Obviously, there is a difference between: [ *Walks in.* ] and: [ *Sion walks into the arena and quickly looks around in hopes of seeing someone.* ] It's simply more pleasing to the eye, and it gives you a bit more credibility, which is a hard thing to come by on this site. Then, of course there are the more important details to add, rather than the ones to jus tmake it look pretty: [ Shut up! ] Compared to: [ *Sion looks at Alexander and shouts at him.* Shut up! ] It lets us know who you're directing your comments towards. So, for an example post, there is a big difference between something like this: [ *Walks in.* Hiyo. ] And this: [ *Sion walks into the stadium and looks around quickly. He spots Alexander standing down the hallway talking to Reiko and walks over to him.* Hiyo. ] Following me? xd )) Finally Josh ((I suppose I should move to this whole 'random violence' thing... As we both remember, you seemed to be going on a bit of a 'neck snapping' spree there... In all honesty, unless you're dealing with a bunch of chatroom RPers who just started RPing 2 hours ago, that won't get you very far. It's what's known around here as a 'munch', otherwise known as 'cheating'. Simply put, when you want something done, you have to make a good argument for it, and it doesn't really happen simply because you say it does. Example: [ *Sion, deciding that he really doesn't like Unsane, rushes forwards down the hallway and tries to stab him in the stomach with a knife.* ] and then Unsane would get to say one of these two (or a variation on it, of course, these are just examples): [ *Not seeing him coming, Unsane was taken by surprise as Sion's knife plunched into him, causing the front of his shirt to soak with blood.* ...holy ******** you b*****d! You ******** STABBED ME!!! gonk crying scream ] [ *Unane heard Sion coming down the hallway, and turned to see Sion rushing towards him with a knife in hand. Not knowing what else to do, Unsane raised his hands and a wall of packed snow formed between himself and Sion.* ] ...like I said, examples, but you get the picture... A fight is more than one person saying "I stab you!" and the other person saying "I stab you TOO!!!")) Finally Josh ((Which kinda brings me to my final point: NEVER BE AFRAID TO ASK QUESTIONS. If you don't ask, they don't tell. Learning is a process of filling in the gaps. Ask about what you don't know, ask for advice, ask for anything... the more you ask the more you'll learn, and the more you learn the better you'll get. It's like math... they give you the easy stuff when you're little, then the build upon that later. Start with addition, then do multiplication, then move on to things like calculus. Start with a bit of description, then move up from there at a pace you feel comfortable with. 3nodding )) themightyjello Phoenix-Alucard *gets up and takes sword in right hand charges and slices throguh the tree kicks the tree in the air jump and slices the tree into fire wood then landing kneeling* (( *Disects.* 1. A sword cannot be swung with enough force to cut down a sufficiently thick tree in one hit. Or at least a sane sword... I'm sure something like a buster sword could, but anything that actually EXISTS would snap the blade if it hit that hard. 2. You'd better have kicked that tree about 30 feet up the trunk, where the center of gravity is, or you'd have just kicked the bottom out from under it, and it would then spin around the other end upon an axis relatively centered to the center of gravity and smack you with the far side. xd 3. Again the above comment about chopping through the tree... but also, you'd never be able to reach very far on the tree at all, at most you'd get an eight foot section chopped up, because you can't really reach further than that, and it's not like you'd be moving along the tree while in the air to reach those other parts, even if you did have that much time to just kind of float there while it all happens. 4. Firewood? You mean sections roughly the size of firewood, right? I mean, unless you're intending to use it for a fire, it's not technically firewood... rolleyes )) themightyjello Latent Leviathan ShadowMercenaryX ((Dude, I hear you. The world would be a much better place for RPing were it not for the massive numbers of Sephiroth and Vash clones running around being as uncreative as humanly possible... )) (( Basicly, it all comes down to the basics... You've got your: Clouds: Huge sword, tragic past, hero complex... Sephrioths: Huge sword, no past, constantly claiming to be the ultimate warrior... Kenshins: Regular sword, irregular everything they do with it... Godlings: Every type of spell imaginable, no casting time, and fight like the Sephiroths... )) themightyjello And as I part for the night, I leave you with the top three countdown of reasons as to why n00bs suck: Number Three: By continuing to exist, they continue to prove Charles Darwin wrong. Number Two: Every new 'sentence' that comes out of them replaces the last one at the top of the charts for stupid things people have said. And the number one reason why n00bs suck: Because Jesus doesn't love you.
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Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 2:48 am
.: FAQ:.
Standard Q&A format... with a twist. eek Frequently Asked Questions:Ask away, my minions...
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