(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.Â
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.)
Thanks for the advice!Â
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.Â
.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.Â
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.
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