Can someone please explain to me what RPing is? im having trouble understanding it. It sounds like fun but i have no ideal how to do it. :violin:

RP is an acronym for RolePlay, if you weren't aware. Essentially, in a forum-based RP, you create a character with a history, personality, appearance, etc. (as if you were writing the character for a fanfiction or novel) and then you make posts as the character would. Describe how your character acts, what your character thinks, what your character is doing, etc. etc.

I would suggest looking at the pinned thread "So you think you can RP" in these boards. That has a LOT of very useful Rp'ing info and tips

If you have more specific questions, feel free to send me a PM

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Can't say fairer than that, really. Role-playing is where you 'play a role'. It's like writing a story with others, only you only control one character; yours. You justwrite what they do, what they think, and how they react to others. It could almost be described as a text-based, unrestricted version of the games. If you've ever heard of DnD (Dungeons and Dragons) it's very much like that, except that here we don't tend to use points or dice, trusting people to be fair with their characters.

Sorry can't be more specific, but it wasn't a very specific question. Read a few RPs through, that's the best way to get the hang of things, and be sure to pick up on any do's and don't's hanging around.

Hope that helps.

ok thanks guys
ill read threw a bunch of these RPs and try to get the hang of it
ill also read that 'so you think you can RP'
thanks for the help :hehe:

I look forward to your addition to this RPing community

Oh, and it's probably a good idea to use proper grammar, punctuation and capital letters. Some of the older RPers (Me) tends to get a tad annoyed when people write leetspeak in RPs

Your not alone. I'm not used to doing Fourm role plays but I too am eager to try it out.

so many ideas with an Rp, i gotta a new idea for a Rp, play the side of the Mythic dawn,

Consider it playing a game without the restraints of a game-engine. You visualize yourself as a character, and perform actions as that character. You use yourself as a part of a story, to move that story along. At its best, a good RP is like a good book written by multiple people who share a common goal, which is to complete that story and advance their characters as people.

Intresting outlook on that one. Sounds fun.

im currently working on it, trying to figure how the beginning would, hows this, start off in the Sanctuary and go to the sewers and try to intercept the emperor, well you do anyway, you gotta fight rats and goblins and take out the blades bodyguards, but be careful of baurus and the champion, hows that?

Sounds good, or perhaps it could start earlyer than that, begining with the charicters actualy assasinating the emperors sons. Not to much has been looked into that and the agents probably survive (in oblivion they kinda got killed in the sewers messing with the emporer and his crew) but thats just a suggestion.

thats a very good suggestion, once i finish how it will start out ill will put it up on the forum

i might post it up after the labor day weekend, just joking after the weekend

ok i got one another question
what if you want your character to do something with another character, but the other character doesn't want that to happen.
like say i wanted to assassinate one of the characters but that person didn't want to die, then what would happen?

You'd have to PM the one you want to assassinate, ask permissions, compromise not to kill if the other wants an assassination happen and so on.

yeah, i never actually did that before, someone wanted me to kill them in one of the rps i was in

Most Roleplayers, or at least the older/more sensible ones, will give you kill permission if your character has a valid reason.

Remember, however much time you spent on your character sheet ( Sometimes I spend two days... ) they are Human, or Mer, or one of the Beast-Folk, and can be killed.
However i will be very annoyed if anyone kills my next batch of characters i will be using for Tears of the Nine, I will let them die if it is relevant.

However I doubt they will be all that simple to kill "Just cus i don't like them" etc, but i will accept that they are killable.



TIP:
When Roleplaying, try not to visualise a sort of, Elder Scrolls character with the graphics of the Elder Scrolls game, think of a REAL life type person, in a REAL looking universe.
It is not always required that you pick In-Game weapons for your character, if you have the imagination to describe say.. a sword in full detail, go ahead.

RPing is writing where you don't control the story. Even if you created the RP, you only write the actions of your character and control the fate of the group as a whole. That's why I like it, it's interactive writing. It's forming a story where you only write a small piece.

I would very strongly suggest not making that your target in an RP. This is one of the reasons I don't allow assassin characters; they don't add to a story, they just kill off all the other players until the story can't go on. You can never assassinate a character that their player wants to see alive.

While players are killable, and goodness knows I've left a swathe of death and torture in my wake as I've gone through them all, you need to ask permission of the player who's character you want to kill and the RP host, usually, if you can do so. Sometimes, sure, that'll add to the story. But generally, that'll be a one off thing, and it'll mean that you're the villain, and the rest of the RPers get to kill you shortly after.

Assassins killing off characters and NPCs (sheetless characters, extras) is all very well and good, but it severely destroys the illusion of an RP. Vampire, werewolf, and assassin characters who kill a person a day get boring, are uber, and don't add to an RP unless you are specifically there, having discussed it with the creator, to be the bad guy. Assassins that join a main group, for whatever reason, and aren't just running around killing indiscriminately, however, are more acceptable.

So yeah, characters are killable. But you need a reason, you need permission, and personally, I'd want to orchestrate the death myself, having them killed in a fight or as part of the story rather than just some random assassin swooping in and confusing everybody for no reason. Random events like that can derail rps.


Sorry for the rant. I get like that sometimes. Hope that helps, anyway.

indeed it would....