(04-08-2014, 08:00 AM)Elyscia Wrote: Hi!

I only started RP'ing (never had RP'ed before in my life) five months ago, I'll share what I know from noob-to-noob, hehe.

By RP group, do you mean like a posse of RP'ers who are involved with your storyline? Get a group of friends, browse people's profiles who interest you and message them asking if there's anything you could work out - most I've found are looking for childhood friends, family members, stuff like that and they're usually very friendly and nice about it! Or join a Free Company (Guild.)

Character progression is up to you - but... like I re-made my character's personality three times over the course of the months :/ S'been quite a battle. The more I thought about how my character acted; how her background and storyline affected her as a person now, the more I had to change how she acted outwardly towards others. I find in the early stages there's not too much wrong with that, but create a foundation first to help yourself so you don't risk changing too much. Get a character background basis sorted out, and what kinda personality you'd like to play. 

Anytime is acceptable for OOC should it call for it! Most people surround their messages ((like this)) to show that they're speaking OOC - to show that they're correcting a typo they've made or need to go. Though, I personally don't use brackets much because I always type in quotation marks if I'm RP'ing, and I chat to non-RP'ers as well.

Powerful? I think... from what I was told, say your character is an elite soldier, and should be able to beat-up a squire (I haven't RP'ed fighting yet at all) I'm told everything is handled by roll, so should the squire get a better roll he'll get a 'lucky shot.' But as far as in-general goes, if you're God-moding it's a no-no (Super Saiyan, super-duper-amazing-powers that shouldn't exist like magical princess from the planet of unicorns.)

Why couldn't you use your character for OOC! You don't need to stay in IC all the time  I'm a PVE'er foremost, and I have two characters - I made this one solely for RP, but then I started grinding her in dungeons. There is a problem sometimes where you're not in IC gear and people try to RP thinking you're in canon-gear, but I just politely whisper and tell them I'm not, and then do ninja-clothes-changing-jutsu and resume to do RP with them (if I'm in the mood.)

(04-08-2014, 08:22 AM)ForbieJD Wrote: It also helps to talk like a pirate! People love pirates.

(04-08-2014, 09:10 AM)Amyness Wrote: Expanding on what Elyscia said about being vague with the character at first. I think it's much easier (and better) to think less about the characters themselves in terms of personality. For example, you work out a simple backstory and then just roll with what you find fun, that way the character's future responses will come naturally to you, and you can then expand on their personality.

Like with my current character, I didn't really have much of an idea of what she'd be like, and she ended up being a sassy bitch. Which was totally out of my idea zone. But now I've gotten so used to it that I don't even need to think about how to respond to most things despite not being sassy at all in real life. I find that if you plan too much beforehand, depending on experience and such you end up forcing yourself to sit there and think 'How would my character respond to that' And that's not exactly a problem, but you want it to flow naturally. 

This isn't to say you should just start RP'ing with nothing planned. You can have some ideas, and should do. But for me It's always easier to plan less and jump into it and see what happens. You might plan to play a horrible person, but then the first person you meet could be dying and for whatever reasons you decide to be a nice person and suddenly you're disliking your initial ideas.


Also yes, pirate talk always helps.

I just saw your next post, so I'll edit in a response!

Families work just like any other character relations really, except obviously you have similar back stories usually. RP is for the most part real time (Although you could RP as like... this is the conversation they had last night if that person couldn't log in that day or something like that). So if say you got pregnant, you would emote around that for the full length of the pregnancy in real life time, and eventually turn up one day holding a baby.

That isn't always the case though. If you're just RP'ing with the same few people every day in a closed off private kind, then doing timeskips, or something like that is quite common. It's just when you RP with lots of random players and suddenly you're holding a baby it just seems out of place since everyone else has only seen that as a few days.

(04-08-2014, 09:42 AM)Ritual Wrote: Thanks for clearing up my confusion on the whole family thing, this is embarrassing but I don't get what emoting is... XD I mean I get when you do emotes like sit and stuff but how would you emote pregnancy?

(04-08-2014, 10:35 AM)Amyness Wrote:

(04-08-2014, 09:42 AM)Ritual Wrote: Thanks for clearing up my confusion on the whole family thing, this is embarrassing but I don't get what emoting is... XD I mean I get when you do emotes like sit and stuff but how would you emote pregnancy?

I mean custom emotes. So basically anything you type that isn't speech really.. it's what your character is doing. Instead of just sitting down with the in game emote you can type that they do it at the same time. For example... You wouldn't just walk up to someone saying you'll help them up and then they'd just get up without any responses. You need to make an emote describing what they are doing like: - Bob extends his arm out towards the fish before snatching it out of the water - Is much more entertaining than just walking up to water and being all "I caught one!"

As for pregnancy you'd incorporate that into it. So as you'd include something about how Bob can't actually reach the fish because his baby lump is too huge. It's basically just letting people know what your character is doing at any time. Think of it as if you're reading a book. It's not all just a list of speeches, you want to know what the characters are doing as well. Your best bet is to watch other RP's and learn from them.

(04-08-2014, 08:47 AM)Ritual Wrote: Thanks for the advice! 

Yeah by RP group I meant what you said XD, I guess I'd be more comfortable just joining a Free Company, asking someone to RP with me just kinda... makes me feel uncomfortable I haven't got a clue as to why, probably because I haven't done this sort of thing before. .

I have a background set out for my character and her brother along with a personality for the two of them, my... plot I guess you could call it isn't really a big thing, the brother has some psychological issues and it's basically the story of the sister (Who I'll make a WHM when I can.) trying to "heal" him. This being set in a world were I don't think much has been done on psychology so it's basically her figuring it all out, so I guess my characters would be in the background to most RPs going on which works in my favour tbh. 

It's good to know if the situation is a reasonable one then being OOC is acceptable.

I love the Super Saiyan form XD, this is what I was trying to clear up because whilst I understand being a "God" in RP and expecting others to bow to you or whatever if unacceptable, what about "Gods" like Algol from Soul Calibur, he doesn't do anything to the world around him he just observes and he isn't immortal just ageless, he doesn't have much to do with the story-lines at all, are those types of characters also unacceptable? He does do a few things in the later games but because of the story-lines just being arcade mode he doesn't affect more than a few characters at most.

You... you have to have IC clothing and what-not? Well thinking about it it makes sense to me I don't even know how I didn't think of that. You must teach me this ninja-clothes-changing-jutsu you speak of, I like that I can use my character out of RP, it would've probably become annoying if they could only level and things in RP.

Again thanks for the great advice.

(04-08-2014, 07:00 AM)Ritual Wrote: How would I integrate myself into a RP group?

How does one progress their characters storyline?

When is it acceptable to become OOC?

How powerful is too powerful? (Even though my characters aren't really all that powerful anyway.) 

Can I use my character for OOC stuff with my friends that have no interest in RP?

(04-08-2014, 01:53 PM)Eva Wrote: Someone once told me [of jazz music] that "if you're thinking too hard about it, than you're thinking too hard about it."  I think the same sort of applies to RP as well.