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Coatleque · **08-07-2015, 12:05 AM**

Where in forum RP you are more or less telling a story and have to describe everything and give insight to the reader, in game real-time RP is more like a TV sitcom where you can see everything in the area and can't hear the other person's thoughts.

Some people like to express their character's thoughts anyway, and there is no problem with that, but keep in mind if you are trying to run an actual plot-line and accidentally tell your heroes what the villain is thinking you will kind of give away the ending.

A good alternative is to focus on subtle movements, hand gestures, and describing facial expressions or mood swings. Perhaps your character's mouth twitched involuntarily when a specific question was asked. Perhaps their nostrils flared almost imperceptibly. Let the other person decide how to take that. This allows their characters to make false assumptions and to develop relationships.

Learn your built-in emotes as well and how your character's voice sounds. You can add to a scene by turning off the /em echo and stringing a few of them together.

Lastly I would impress that not every response must have an emotion along with it. Sometimes two people can just have a conversation without dramatic effect. If you over-use emotions they will have must less impact when something truly important is happening.

Hope this gives a few ideas at least.

Jana · **08-07-2015, 03:45 AM**

I think one thing forum RPers can have difficulty with when transitioning to in-game RP is cutting down unnecessary descriptors. I won't go as far as saying "purple prose" but a lot of what needs to be shown through text in forum RP can be relayed easily in-game. I'll often only use short descriptions in emotes for stuff that isn't obvious or can't be done in-game, like posture.

"Jana Ridah slouches against the wall, scanning the Quicksand with tired, baggy eyes."

Fox · **08-07-2015, 08:59 AM**

Coming from someone who text-rped from 1998-Release of TOR (whenever that was I forget)... Moving from Forum rp to MMO rp is a hell of a thing.

Now while I got my roots in live-chat rp back in yahoo's Ayenee realms, I ended up in forums. Both in live chat and forums; people were more patient for paragraph rps, afterall we didn't have visuals and the only thing that could be done was to write or to draw your character. Even then; it was all up to the individual to really paint a mental picture.

Since we are now in an MMO, writing out certain things; is easier in the public sense of rp. When I go public I rarely write anything above a three lined response. Mostly because it's very difficult to keep up with a lot of people sometimes.

When you're rping with a couple of friends, sure revert back to paragraphs and etc if you'd like. But overall in public I think you will find yourself less pressed and less stressed if you ease back a bit from the heavy paragraph rp.

It's a good thing I thing though, learning to adapt to your situation. Otherwise you're likely going to miss posts that are being done frequently and just get flustered. Not to mention it also allows for you to rp with a number of people rather than just one or two.

D'aito Kuji · **08-07-2015, 11:17 AM**

I'm not especially skilled at walking up and talking to people in-game or in life. But what I have done with a lot of success is talk to the NPCs. Â I bow to them, react to their words to me, complain about them, or the weather, or whatever else. Â And that can sometimes get the attention of others in the area.

"Can you believe this guy?," she says to no one in particular.

And if people take me up on it and chime in, super good. Â If not, that's just fine. Â I don't mind RP'ing in my head. Â

I have caught a little grief from time to time doing this, not everyone appreciates a role player. Â But the game is so large and there's so many people, it's not super likely that you'll run into that person again.

I also have a RP blog that sometimes (not that often) gets me opportunities to RP as long as I'm able to actually log into the game. Â But alas, I was too busy and now I've got computer problems.Â

But I'll be back sooner or later.

Best of luck and if you see D'aito Kuji, feel free to walk up. She's always looking for things she can use, trade, or sell.

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