Quote:Don't action on another person's character: Your character is your own, but you have no control over another person's character. Here is an example of the right and wrong ways to handle a situation where the outcome of a situation depends on both players:

WRONG: [Keir] *Breaks Mrree's jaw*
RIGHT: [Keir] *Throws a punch aiming for Mrree's jaw*

The second option allows Mrree to react to Keir's action herself. It gives her more options, such as attempting to block the punch, dodge out of the way, or even counteract. This is the respectful way to RP.

Quote:Remember the difference between IC and OOC: IC means In Character. This refers your character's feelings and emotions.
OOC means Out of Character. This refers to you, as the player behind the character, and your thoughts, feelings, and emotions.

Don't get the two confused!

Just because one character may despise another character, this does not reflect between the players. They may be best friends, while their characters try to slit each other's throats. It is important to try to keep a firm boundary between the two.

Along these lines, if you are having a bad day and your emotions are running high, we ask that you step away from role-play. It is very difficult to role-play when you are feeling down and you will probably end up letting your own feelings infiltrate your character, possibly even having them say and do things they might not normally do.

Also along these lines, when you are not speaking as your own character, either on the chat or in a private conversation to another member, please use (( )) these brackets to indicate you are speaking OOC.

EXAMPLE: ((How do you use this attack command?))

Remember that we encourage members to stay in-character as much as possible, so try to keep any OOC talk about things that you couldn't possibly say as your own character, such as game commands and mechanics.

Quote:Abiding by the physical and natural laws of Eorzea: If you are looking to play Lord Zeus, King of the Gods, bent on raining hellfire on Limsa Lominsa, you're going to have to take a step back and realize that you're only playing a Level 3 Gladiator. (Maybe Level 4, I don't judge.) As an adventurer, you have certain restrictions to your capabilities, especially at lower levels. Even if you went to war ten years ago against the empire, if your character is only level 10, then it seems your skills got a bit rusty in those ten years. Feel free to be unique and innovative with your character's history and skills, but remember that there are limits to how much power you can have.

Quote:God mode is the tendency to roleplay someone else's character or to say their lines for them. When RPing, one should act and answer for themself, and not for the others they are RPing with. It can sometimes be hard, a player may have an idea of where they would like the RP to follow, however, this is the beauty of RPing. One must adapt to whatever comes, whether it was what they were expecting or not.

Quote:God-modding is an act of doing something that forces another player into a position they may not be comfortable with and is absolutely not tolerated by other players. This can include holding a character against a player's will, dodging every attack regardless of skill, dismemberment or death of another's character and stating how another's character reacts to a situation are all included in this catergory. An example of this taken from my RP LS rules would be:

Player A and Player B are fighting.
Player A swings a sword and Player B and Player B dodges.
Player B counters and comes in and stabs Player A in the stomach with a hidden dagger!
Player B insists Player A has to be dead

Meta-gaming is a character knowing something IC that clearly could not be known outside of an OOC source. This often happens when an RPer writes an IC Journal or a story of something their character did alone for the group to read but never intended it to be OOC knowledge. For example:

Player A is always kind to Player B IC.
Player B thinks Player A is their friend IC.
Player A writes in their character's IC private journal he in reality hates Player B.
Player B reads this OOC and IC starts saying Player A hates them though Player A is still treating them the same way like they like them.

Quote:God mode is the tendency to roleplay someone else's character or to say their lines for them. When RPing, one should act and answer for themself, and not for the others they are RPing with. It can sometimes be hard, a player may have an idea of where they would like the RP to follow, however, this is the beauty of RPing. One must adapt to whatever comes, whether it was what they were expecting or not.

Quote:God-mode (verb) (hyphen optional): To perform In-Character (IC), or attempt to perform IC, actions which are clearly beyond the power of any player character.

Quote:You use the game's lore and canon to determine what your character is capable of doing, etc. Care should be taken to not give your character any overwhelmingly strong relationships with certain NPCs, ie, being family, etc. In-game stats and abilities should only be used as part of your character in terms of how they rank within their job, ie, a level 30 BLM character cannot claimed to be able to throw ancient magic around. However, characters may have other abilities they may inherent from canon, or their own creativity, as long as it is reasonable and not used to give the character an overwhelming edge over others.

Rikitiki Wrote:Example5: AbsurdlyPowerfulMan holds his nose. "Wow, UnfortunateGuy, your feet stink! I can smell them from all the way over here."

(Also not godmode, and probably just as likely to make everyone else within ten yards think UG *does* have stinky feet!)

Kes Wrote:This could be construed as godmode under certain circumstances. Perhaps UnfortunateGuy goes to painful lengths with his personal hygiene to the point where he would be offended at such an accusation. In the spirit of RP this can easily be played off as discovering another source of the offending odor, but it crosses that same line as assuming another character's thoughts/response.