Lot of good info in this thread. Â Use it.
One I didn't see mentioned, and a personal thing that twists my ear and pisses me off more often than not:
Make sure your char has a reason to interact, get involved, and step out.
Mr. Broods McDarksalot in the corner isn't going to get into any fun if they never step into and interact with people. Â Sad shy girl isn't going to have anything happen if they never leave their table and never talk. Â If either of them do, it's a thin soup of a story since they'll go back to Dark and/or Quiet waiting for the next plot point to come to them instead of getting involved in them.
IN short: You're RPing in a group environment. Â Have reasons, twists, flaws, merits, and other personality things that make sure you interact with the group.
Otherwise you're background colour and making everyone else do the work of bringing RP to you, instead of making a collective story.
People who get mad about never getting RP and then mention their char is a super secret ninja who never reveals their location or speaks to people outside of their extensive NPC organization that no one knows about kind of piss me off.
One I didn't see mentioned, and a personal thing that twists my ear and pisses me off more often than not:
Make sure your char has a reason to interact, get involved, and step out.
Mr. Broods McDarksalot in the corner isn't going to get into any fun if they never step into and interact with people. Â Sad shy girl isn't going to have anything happen if they never leave their table and never talk. Â If either of them do, it's a thin soup of a story since they'll go back to Dark and/or Quiet waiting for the next plot point to come to them instead of getting involved in them.
IN short: You're RPing in a group environment. Â Have reasons, twists, flaws, merits, and other personality things that make sure you interact with the group.
Otherwise you're background colour and making everyone else do the work of bringing RP to you, instead of making a collective story.
People who get mad about never getting RP and then mention their char is a super secret ninja who never reveals their location or speaks to people outside of their extensive NPC organization that no one knows about kind of piss me off.
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