(04-29-2014, 12:47 PM)Ignacius Wrote: THE UNSPOKEN RULES OF RP:
#1: Â You may not play a dragon, the descendant of a dragon, or anything dragon-related. Â It may seem cool to play a dragon at first. Â You wouldn't know, at first, that you've literally become the joke at that point.
#2: Â Your brooding must be limited in scope. Â If you sit in the shadowy corner, keeping to yourself, eyeing everyone bitterly, well.... people will leave you alone and not RP with you. Â They know already that any RP with you isn't going to leave them room to brood themselves.
#3: Â Do not produce your own flask/bottle from your bag and drink it in the bar. Â That makes no damn sense. Â It'd be like walking into a McDonalds and pulling out a chili cheese burrito.
#4: Â Keep all your ERP in PMs. Â I don't care about immersion, characterization, or realism. Â Do not undress your character in the game world and sit them down in an empty room. Â The reason this rule is unspoken is because you'd think it should go without saying. Â It doesn't. Â Keep your clothes on, do all ERP in PMs, and make sure you are responding to the right person (and not dumping it accidentally in /say) when you post.
#5: Â If you aren't ready to have your ass kicked, don't threaten anyone or talk about them behind their backs. Â Just because you have discretion over your character doesn't mean people will take you seriously if you're starting a fight every time you walk into a bar.
#6: Â Don't get bigger than your in-game britches. Â If you're a level 10, be ready to be called out by a level 50. Â You may not think it's fair, but no one is going to treat you like an unstoppable ninja if you're just a level 5 pugilist.
#7: Â If you want to be taken seriously, and you're not playing an old man, have one or both of your parents be alive. Â Most roleplayers will eventually start to roll their eyes at the shocking mortality rate of Eorzea if all our parents died to beast tribes.
#8: Â If you tell people you have a price on your head, that is an open invitation to be stalked and have your ass kicked at inopportune moments. Â Avoid it by being a smart criminal.
#9: Â Never say a thing like, "women desire him." Â No they don't. Â That's a profound misunderstanding of women. Â Ugly men throughout history have been more attractive than any of us simply by force of personality. Â That's not something you can dictate. Â Just say he's handsome, let the women desire him if you can pull it off.
If you're a woman, you can say, "men desire her." Â That is not a misunderstanding of men. Â It may be a misunderstanding of "desire", but not of men.
#10: Â There is no better way to get yourself despised by other roleplayers faster than the OOC hissy fit. Â Do not get other people involved in your OOC drama with other players. Â Do not threaten to leave the game if people don't make your character feel better. Â Definitely don't spend more time complaining OOC than posting IC. Â If "everyone" seems like they aren't roleplaying correctly, the problem isn't them. Â The problem is you.
Hmmm, I wouldn't say that all of these ideas are shared by the RP community at large. Things like OOC character level being used IC as proof that you are stronger is still a really split issue; this is along with debatable things like if you should RP with relic weapons or having your character be part of the main story. I think he was asking for general rules, like obeying lore, metagaming, and stuff that a very large portion of the population agree's with.
Oh, I suppose while I am responding to this post I can add something else as well. Be mindful about being too special of a snowflake. I think we all want our character's to be different, to stand out, and be fun, but there is a line you have to be careful not to cross. When you start entering the realm of being sent from an alternate dimension and having some form of advanced knowledge (like being a blue mage or something) or being able to grow wings made of aether IC, then you may be taking it too far. I'm not suggesting that everyone be plain characters, but just be careful.
There is a great RPer who plays as a seer, but allows their power to be completely random and lets the other character decide what she is shown or if she see's anything at all. Though this makes her someone very unique she is careful about not overdoing it so it works out perfectly fine ^^.
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