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Roleplay Basics
What does RP and RPG stand for?
RP stands for Role Play/Role-Playing and RPG is an abbreviation for Role Playing Game.
What is the point of RPing?
In roleplaying, a person creates a character or selects a premade character and takes on the qualities of this character, interacting with other fictional characters to tell a story.
How do you do it?
Think of RPing like writing a fanfiction story, except in this case, you have numerous people contributing to numerous characters. No one person is in control of where the story goes or what happens. That’s what makes it interesting. It can also be viewed as a play done in written fashion.
What is RP Courtesy?
Rping is great fun when everyone is interacting and getting involved. The best way to do this is to have RP courtesy. Rping is fun as long as everyone is having fun in the rp. One way to do that is to have an RP order when an RP starts. If you have an order members aren’t feeling ignored or left out. So keeping to the same posting order can help everyone be involved and everyone having fun. If a member is going to be away for a long period of time then the RP order might be changed to accommodate this absents.
What is IC vs. OOC knowledge?
While it is fun to RP and fun to stalk other RPs we as members have to remember the difference in what we know OOC (out of character) and what our characters know IC (In Character). If you are stalking another RP or just reading your RP and a character has not told your character specific information just thought it, that is called out of character information. This information should only be known by the RPer not the character. If information has specifically been told to are character that is called in character knowledge and then that character can react however he or she would to this information. |