How do you roleplay on a forum

Post » Fri May 27, 2011 8:33 am

Personally, I would suggest reading some of the RPs around here to get a feel for what a character ought to look like and reading some people's posts to see how everything goes down.


ok i will do that when i have more time untill then i just want to get my character half completed so about the name Plem Creation-Process is it good enough to use already in use or scrap metal x100000 ?
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 6:22 am

About your name: It is hard to take you seriously when you have a name as derrogatory as yours. Instant rep penalty to any posts you make, and the Roleplaying Forum, because of its more exclusive nature, is very reputation-oriented of its members (though we try our hardest to be unbiased in our selections). You need to develope a good reputation to overcome a name like yours.

Your name also prejudices us toward percieving what you post as living up to your name, causing us to dwell on the dumber and less mature things you post. And as you're name has a real meaning, your reputation will stick with you a lot longer than for people with less meaningful names. Also, your inquiries here, with some of the examples you choose, are seriously hurting our first impression of you. On these boards, we have noobs, and newbs, classified as such by reputation and apparent ability to learn. Noobs are generally hopeless cases, and you are coming across as one even though you have yet to make any attempt to join an RP. Mentioning Habbo Hotel and referring to the Inheritance Cycle don't help your case.

If you are serious about roleplaying on these boards, and wish to improve your style, read the sticky first, and read through several of the RP's on the board to see how they work. Also, don't get turned off by the weird or complex names of some of these RPs (like I did when I came here from my old Roleplaying location.) I will not hold the fact that you roleplayed on Habbo Hotel against you, because I believe everyone started somewhere, and all you have to do is unlearn some bad habits.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 8:22 pm

ok i will do that when i have more time untill then i just want to get my character half completed so about the name Plem Creation-Process is it good enough to use already in use or scrap metal x100000 ?


the latter seeing as it IS NOT FINISHED!!!
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 7:31 am

ok i will do that when i have more time untill then i just want to get my character half completed so about the name Plem Creation-Process is it good enough to use already in use or scrap metal x100000 ?

Bretons usually have french names such as Marie Antoinette.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 6:52 pm

Bretons usually have french names such as Marie Antoinette.


Unless you are ornery like me, and decide to import a character from Daggerfall. "Davian Hawkeye, at your service. And yes, I am a breton, not an Ohmes-Raht khajiit, despite my fur and tail... No, really... You don't believe me? Silence, peon!"
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 5:44 am

Unless you are ornery like me, and decide to import a character from Daggerfall. "Davian Hawkeye, at your service. And yes, I am a breton, not an Ohmes-Raht khajiit, despite my fur and tail... No, really... You don't believe me? Silence, peon!"

Haven't played Daggerfall.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 10:37 am

Unless you are ornery like me, and decide to import a character from Daggerfall. "Davian Hawkeye, at your service. And yes, I am a breton, not an Ohmes-Raht khajiit, despite my fur and tail... No, really... You don't believe me? Silence, peon!"


Pah! The stuck up noble is my territory, you uncouth, bloody savage! Go back to your desert or wherever it is you come from, the smell of your fur is making me sick.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 7:50 am

Haven't played Daggerfall.


You're missing out on the GREATEST ELDER SCROLLS CHAPTER OF ALL TIME!!!!

Pah! The stuck up noble is my territory, you uncouth, bloody savage! Go back to your desert or wherever it is you come from, the smell of your fur is making me sick.


Do not presume to insult me, sir, or we shall be forced to settle this with an honorable trial by sabres.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 4:16 pm

You're missing out on the GREATEST ELDER SCROLLS CHAPTER OF ALL TIME!!!!



Do not presume to insult me, sir, or we shall be forced to settle this with an honorable trial by sabres.


In the immortal words of Theodore Roosevelt (Who is this guy? Was he a king in High Rock or something), I say to you, sir, Bully!

Have a bully day!

Daggerfall is pretty sweet. I love me my Tower Gaerton.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 3:59 pm

About your name: It is hard to take you seriously when you have a name as derrogatory as yours. Instant rep penalty to any posts you make, and the Roleplaying Forum, because of its more exclusive nature, is very reputation-oriented of its members (though we try our hardest to be unbiased in our selections). You need to develope a good reputation to overcome a name like yours.

Your name also prejudices us toward percieving what you post as living up to your name, causing us to dwell on the dumber and less mature things you post. And as you're name has a real meaning, your reputation will stick with you a lot longer than for people with less meaningful names. Also, your inquiries here, with some of the examples you choose, are seriously hurting our first impression of you. On these boards, we have noobs, and newbs, classified as such by reputation and apparent ability to learn. Noobs are generally hopeless cases, and you are coming across as one even though you have yet to make any attempt to join an RP. Mentioning Habbo Hotel and referring to the Inheritance Cycle don't help your case.

If you are serious about roleplaying on these boards, and wish to improve your style, read the sticky first, and read through several of the RP's on the board to see how they work. Also, don't get turned off by the weird or complex names of some of these RPs (like I did when I came here from my old Roleplaying location.) I will not hold the fact that you roleplayed on Habbo Hotel against you, because I believe everyone started somewhere, and all you have to do is unlearn some bad habits.



reputation goes two (2) ways if your extrmely well liked (or dis liked for some reason) everyone seems to know you but in the mid areas no one knows you at all...

and if my username will make it harder to gain good rep well thats even etter because it poses a challenge

and how much harder could elder scrolls rp be than any other rp? to me it looks easier because it comes straight from a game and all info i need on certain things is found on this site or if asked for linked to from this site

and since Plem Creation-Process cannot be a breton name what race can have the 1st name as Plem ?
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 8:00 am

reputation goes two (2) ways if your extrmely well liked (or dis liked for some reason) everyone seems to know you but in the mid areas no one knows you at all...

and if my username will make it harder to gain good rep well thats even etter because it poses a challenge

and how much harder could elder scrolls rp be than any other rp? to me it looks easier because it comes straight from a game and all info i need on certain things is found on this site or if asked for linked to from this site

and since Plem Creation-Process cannot be a breton name what race can have the 1st name as Plem ?


You don't seem to grasp how difficult roleplaying can be at the quality standard we hold, as it is just as important how well you write as how well you know the lore of the world. And I think any race could use a first name as Plem, with the possible exception of Khajiit and Dunmer. But the last name is a problem. If you want him to be breton, then give him either a pseudo-french name, or do what they used in daggerfall and give his last name a two-part name, like Copperfield, Copperhold, Copperspyre, Copperoak, Greenfield, Greeneye, Greenhold, Greenspyre, Greenoak, Hawkfield, Hawkhold, Hawkspyre... you get the point...
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 3:09 pm

the problem isn't the first name - Plem is short enough to fit with almost any race. Creation Proces on the other hand is something no normal person would have as a name.

Most second/surnames tends toward 'professional' names (baker, miller that sort of thing), sometimes in other languages when you have a foreign ancestry. Names derived from physical or mental traits are also pretty common. It's also not unusal to have only a first name.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 1:46 pm

the problem isn't the first name - Plem is short enough to fit with almost any race. Creation Proces on the other hand is something no normal person would have as a name.

Most second/surnames tends toward 'professional' names (baker, miller that sort of thing), sometimes in other languages when you have a foreign ancestry. Names derived from physical or mental traits are also pretty common. It's also not unusal to have only a first name.


ok how about Plem Creationfield ?

(btw i wish i knew what i was thinking when i put down plem because i tired spelling "help" backword ....)

5:00 pm
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 10:36 am

quick question about ubering

is it possible to do it efectively with out looking like a noob? as say in chance of your character falling in battle coud some one uber the fallen out of harms way or use some one elses character to do something within terms of magic?
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 4:42 am

ok how about Plem Creationfield ?

(btw i wish i knew what i was thinking when i put down plem because i tired spelling "help" backword ....)

5:00 pm


Ok they've told you this, Breton names are Psuedo french, as is some of their culture, its borrowed.

Imperials have typically Roman/Italian names.

Khajiit tend to be named depending on their person, example: a Khajiit Named Ma'Dat would imply that he is an apprentice, a virgin or a novice or some sort because of Ma, if he lost his virginity or became adept at his art it would change to something else depending on his skills/traits. to add on my example, if the art he started out on was magic, which earned him the name of Ma'Dat while in apprenticeship, once he bacomes a recognised wizard his name would become Jo'Dat

Orcs have Gro or Gra, the former being masculine the latter being femenine.

Argonians are not named until the hist ceremony, they are then named in their native tongue for abilities/habbits/personality traits, Which is the reason you will meet Argonians who's translated name would be something like "Pulls-Ropes-faster" or "Hides-In-Shadows" etc etc.


quick question about ubering

is it possible to do it efectively with out looking like a noob? as say in chance of your character falling in battle coud some one uber the fallen out of harms way or use some one elses character to do something within terms of magic?



You can be uber, within reason. But dont try it until you're more experienced. Please
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 3:24 pm

Ok they've told you this, Breton names are Psuedo french, as is some of their culture, its borrowed.


Or, if you are daring, or hate Morrowind's Breton Culture Derailment, you can do what I suggested. However, creation seems bad to have in a last name...
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 4:03 pm

In orcish names 'Gro' and 'Gra' means 'son of' and 'daughter of' (real world eqiuvalent would be the arabic 'ibn', or the nordic 'sen' or 'son' ending). A typical orcish name is 'first name' gro/gra 'father or mother's name'.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 4:39 am

In orcish names 'Gro' and 'Gra' means 'son of' and 'daughter of' (real world eqiuvalent would be the arabic 'ibn', or the nordic 'sen' or 'son' ending). A typical orcish name is 'first name' gro/gra 'father or mother's name'.

So in a sense they also borrow from japanese culture in the way that instead of a family name, their parents first name is passed down to them.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 5:54 pm

Ok they've told you this, Breton names are Psuedo french, as is some of their culture, its borrowed.

Imperials have typically Roman/Italian names.

Khajiit tend to be named depending on their person, example: a Khajiit Named Ma'Dat would imply that he is an apprentice, a virgin or a novice or some sort because of Ma, if he lost his virginity or became adept at his art it would change to something else depending on his skills/traits. to add on my example, if the art he started out on was magic, which earned him the name of Ma'Dat while in apprenticeship, once he bacomes a recognised wizard his name would become Jo'Dat

Orcs have Gro or Gra, the former being masculine the latter being femenine.

Argonians are not named until the hist ceremony, they are then named in their native tongue for abilities/habbits/personality traits, Which is the reason you will meet Argonians who's translated name would be something like "Pulls-Ropes-faster" or "Hides-In-Shadows" etc etc.





You can be uber, within reason. But dont try it until you're more experienced. Please


what abotu the khajiit "anissi" ?

and i have alot of trouble naming something so a suggestion on my breton would be useful

and if later when i get the hang of this could i make an argonian-breton hybred ?

or maybe a breton raised by argonians?
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 7:32 pm

what abotu the khajiit "anissi" ?

and i have alot of trouble naming something so a suggestion on my breton would be useful

and if later when i get the hang of this could i make an argonian-breton hybred ?

or maybe a breton raised by argonians?


A good breton name could be Bertrand de Anticlere.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 7:28 pm

and if later when i get the hang of this could i make an argonian-breton hybred ?


Um... um... anyone have any brain bleach?
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 4:55 am

I just used the last of mine... Maybe a bullet will do it for ya? I've been told those are particularly good for removing horrible things.

Several hours of playing Morrowind might work as well!!
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 6:28 am

Um... um... anyone have any brain bleach?


Some people have characters that are dunmer/khajiit.

Personally, I'm not a fan of crossings, except in the case of like Imperial/Nord, Altmer/Bosmer. I odn't even think there is any good lore to support beast/man-mer breedings. And by that I mean comes right out and says "this guy was born from a high elf and a khajiit". There have been Orc hybrids though.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 1:28 pm

Some people have characters that are dunmer/khajiit.

Personally, I'm not a fan of crossings, except in the case of like Imperial/Nord, Altmer/Bosmer. I odn't even think there is any good lore to support beast/man-mer breedings. And by that I mean comes right out and says "this guy was born from a high elf and a khajiit". There have been Orc hybrids though.


so i could be the 1st of the argonian bretons ? and if it doesnt work the 1st of the argonian raised bretons?
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 12:03 pm

Some people have characters that are dunmer/khajiit.


Hey, Fur is hot and exotic. Lukewarm scales are just squick. And I believe Argonian hybrids are physically impossible...
As for khajiit hybrids, though lore doesn't truly support them, only the Zeterra family has obvious hybrids. The few Khajiit/redguard character blanks I have are almost indistinguishable from their mother's race.
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