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Welcome - An Intro to Role-playing

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Post  Raeda Sat Nov 06, 2010 6:19 pm

Now I'm sure many us are veteran role-players or have at least dabbled in it, and come to love it. However, we must all allow the fact that there are people who have never role-played before. And I'm pretty sure I can guess what you're thinking. "Omg, role-playing? Is that like...inappropriate?"

No, it's not. That stuff isn't allowed here, fortunately. Role-playing, the one we're speaking of, is much more difficult and intricate. Depending on your level and style the writing and literacy can differ greatly. Advanced role-players, such as myself, can write multiple paragraphs. Beginners might start with only one line a post and minimal spelling.

But how to improve? Practice, my friends, is what made me a better role-player after a month of single sentences and no syntax, grammar, spelling or structure.

*gasp*

Simply read, write and post and soon (and hopefully) you'll rise up in the ranks towards the advanced role-playing section.

Now, to get onto the entire subject of this post.

What is role-playing?

1.
to assume the attitudes, actions, and discourse of (another), esp. in a make-believe situation in an effort to understand a differing point of view or social interaction: Management trainees were given a chance to role-play labor negotiators.
2.
to experiment with or experience (a situation or viewpoint) by playing a role: trainees role-playing management positions.

Does this make much sense to you? No? This is from a dictionary, so please, spare me.

As the words above describe in a rather difficult way, role-playing means to create a character in which to act out in the form of words. This means, while you do not have to write in first person, you 'are' the character in a sense.

You control their personality, actions, speech and so much more. It's your choice on what you do with this character of yours. And there are no limitations to what your character is except for one rule.

No Mary Sues or Gary Stues.

Who or what are these? A Mary Sue or Gary Stu is a character without any flaws or bad traits whatsoever. They can go for miles without getting tired, never die, never get injured, they always act perfectly and never lose control of their emotions. See how annoying this can be?

So if you ever create a character that is a Mary Sue or Gary Stu, or close, kill them off immediately before you are attacked by hordes of avid role-players wielding pitchsporks and torches.

Trust me.

Examples
Spoiler:
This is an example for a Warrior Cats role-play, a certain obsession of mine. Intimidated? You should be. But don't expect every post to be like this, because that's just getting full of yourself. Yes, they all could be, if you wanted to fill every post with a bunch of crap.

So...just don't. Don't do it. Everyone will hate you. That's right, everyone.

More to come from me. I might just move this to an actual tutorial forum, but until then, goodbye.

~Raeda
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