Global Roleplaying Guidelines

[Kagura]

Unlike the rules, these are simply guidelines to be followed in most role plays to avoid conflict with the owner(s) of said role plays. Some role plays deviate from these guidelines, which is perfectly fine, but this is a general guideline that most role plays follow.

.:General Roleplaying Guidelines:.





Table of Contents

• God-Modding
  
• Bunnying
  
• Meta-Gaming
  
• Out of Context (OOC) Posts
  
• One-Liners
  
• Post-Quality
  
• Activity
  

Roleplay rules have been edited here: http://www.rpnation.com/threads/rpnations-site-rules-updated.62287/#post-1978741

 

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No "Godmodding"


( Don't make your character do things that he/she shouldn't be able to. )


Examples:


1. Being able to hear/see things that was written in someone else's posts but that was inaudible/invisible to your character. Or constantly 'feeling' something even though it makes no sense that you would instinctively 'feel' that.


2. Absurd abnormalities like flying in an otherwise completely normal and magicless RP.


3. Killing off another person's character or heavily injuring him/her without asking that character's creator through Shoutbox or PM.

 

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No "Bunnying"


( Do not control other people or rp in their stead unless allowed by the person in question. )


Examples:


1. Writing how another person reacts, responds, feels or takes action while not being mentioned by said person.


2. 'Puppeteering' another person's character; Moving him/her around and making that character do things without the creator's consent.

 

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No "Meta-Gaming"

(Do not use your knowledge to influence your character's knowledge/decisions)

Examples:


1. Someone is thinking your character is acting a little bit crazy, but continue to act rather normally. In your next post your character accuses them of thinking they're crazy.


2. When you know a character is lying because you've read the sign-ups/previous posts, and your character calls them out on lying because of some 'innate instinct'.

 

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No Out Of Context/Character posts in an RP


( Do not post things that aren't in Character/Context)


Examples:


1) Mentioning a story-arc or plot line you came up with without any post-content


2) Pointing out an error/mistake made by someone else


Notes:


You now have the option to make an OOC comment by selecting the option where you would usually find the "Edit" button for your posts. (screen shots to come) The author of the posts gets an alert you commented, and can respond to you! No need for ooc post to take up useful role playing space.

 

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"One-Liners"





( Try not to make posts that only contain 1, or very few, lines of text. )


Explanation:


Sometimes people who rp with one or a few other people can get upset when they put time and effort in their posts to make them immersible and contain a paragraph or more, and when then the other person/people respond with bland, one-line posts...they get discouraged and annoyed.

 

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Post-Quality


(Try to make your post as legible as possible)


Explanation:


1) To properly respond, people need to be able to clearly read and understand your post. No one expects you to be a guru, but good spelling and grammar (even the capitalization at the start of a sentence) is a good start.


2) Some role plays expand the no one-liners rule to asking you to create posts that are at least so-many paragraphs long.

 

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Activity

(Try to remain active)

Explanation:


If you sign up for a role play the author is assuming you will be in for the long haul, this may give you bigger parts in the storyline. Remaining active means keeping up with the role play by reading all posts, and posting when you need to.