Comments on: Initiating RP

By: Roleplay: Getting Started | The Lazy Sniper

Roleplay: Getting Started | The Lazy Sniper — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:07:27 +0000

[...] Too Many Annas: Initiating RP [...]

By: Ringo Flinthammer

Ringo Flinthammer — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:10:33 +0000

It’s also important to remember two things:

1) The other people RPing will not magically fit into some pre-determined script you have in mind. (And if you have one in mind, write fanfic instead of raging against people “screwing up” your wonderful story that requires other players to behave like chess pieces for you.) I remember, years ago, encountering some elves sitting in the middle of the road in town in Menethil Harbor, carrying on about someone’s long-lost-whatever. I told them to get out of the road and that there were perfectly good chairs inside the Deepwater, not two steps away. Oh, the rage I got in tells …

2) Don’t sit in the middle of the road unless you’re RPing a vagrant.

By: WTT: [RP] » Who Wants To RP?

WTT: [RP] » Who Wants To RP? — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:55:25 +0000

[...] want to get others involved in. What’s the next step? Anna touches on this in her post from Tuesday. In short, you need to find people to RP [...]

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:49:39 +0000

@Ranchero – that’s exactly how I think RSP should be used. Give me a description of your characters appearance. Let me know if there’s something I should notice (Angoleth’s braced shoulder and ruined voice, for example) that can be used as conversation starter.

If 90% of your RSP is tediously verbose thesaurusitis for “is gorgeous”… I don’t want to read it.

By: el ranchero

el ranchero — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:45:18 +0000

Good one, Omega. People screw up the RSP thing a lot. Consider that it’s yet another thing for them to read (and remember!) on top of everything else going on.

In my experience, the best RSP is not just less than seven pages but closer to seven lines. You have an avatar that people can see, and you shouldn’t include anything people can’t get from looking at you, so just provide a quick, basic image of your character and a couple of easily remembered things the reader can hang onto but can’t see on your toon. I don’t care how magnificently your golden tresses sway in the morning breeze or how perfectly toned your biceps are, but if you’re wearing a brooch with the symbol of the Cenarion Circle, we have something to talk about.