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RP Primer
« Thread Started on Jan 6, 2008, 5:15pm »

Greetings and welcome to Realms of Light and Shadow! Here, you can become a character borne of your own imagination and interact with other members, helping the various stories that are told here unfold. For some who have never RPed before, this can be sometimes be a confusing new process. As such, this handy primer has been composed to help you get started.

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[I]OOC and IC:
The key points of the site, OOC and IC stand for Out of Character and In Character, respectively.

OOC means that you're actually talking as you, and not your created character. The most common way to indicate OOC is double parenthesis ((Like this)), although you can also just put OOC: (or some other variation thereof) and then type what you need to. If you're on the General Boards, however, you're constantly out of character anyways, and you don't need to use either sign.

IC is when you're acting as your character in an RP board; your actions should preferably be typed in the third person

(i.e. 'He walked along the stone path.' instead of 'I walked along the stone path.')

When you want your character to talk with someone else's, do something to address them

(i.e. Shujin turned his head towards the Juna and said,");

also make sure to put whatever you say in quotes.

[II]Act for Yourself:
This can sometimes be tricky for new RPers, but you need to make sure that whenever you type down actions, you don't assume the actions of the others

(i.e. Shujin swung his sword at his enemy; he parried his attack and quickly struck back, failing to notice Shujin's concealed dagger.).

This is called PowerPlaying (PPing), and I believe that you will be warned to change your post before it is deleted. Ideally, you'll want to have your character perform their action and end your post with that.

(i.e. 'Shujin swung his sword at the enemy,' end post)

This allows the other member to come up with their own response, and generally just keeps everything fair.

[III]Know Your Place:
In real life, with the exception of time traveling or clones, it's impossible for anyone to be in two places at once; although this is a different world, that rule still applies. Your character cannot be eating dinner with some friends at Ambermill Inn while also fighting bandits alone in the mountains.

If you want to be on more than one board at once, it helps to add a note in OOC regarding when this takes place (i.e. "This takes place after the fight with the bandits."). But this isn't required. Just remember your character's timeline to save confusion if you're posting in more than one place.

There is obviously much more information about the site, but you'll be able to find rules and such on other boards. This is just a brief primer on the basic rules of RPing. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

--by Shujin

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