RP for beginners

From Chimaera Roleplayers

This is just a very quick guide to RP, the very basics for RPing:

1) No text emotes in spatial, e.g: lol, omg, rofl etc.

2) No smileys in spatial e.g: :- ) :- D etc

3) In spite of the tags floating over your head, to RPers they are invisible. You do not know someone's name until they are introduced. These can be turned off under Options > Misc > uncheck all the boxes showing names.

4) You do not know someone's faction or profession, see 3 above.

5) Those 'few' Jedi that so exist are in hiding, therefore you keep your profession under wraps. Do not wear Jedi robes or display a lightsabre.

6) No IM style text e.g: u instead of you or any other abbreviation.

7) Never project an action on to someone else e.g: "knocks X to the ground" this is power emoting and not permitted, better to say "attempts to knock X to the ground" thus giving X the chance to decide whether he stands or falls.

8 ) You should think about how your character would react, not how "you" would react in real life. When roleplaying, you take on the role of a character in the star wars universe

9) Care must be taken to make sure that OOC (Out Of Character) issues do not affect your IC (In Character) actions. This may have the effect of adversely affecting your character's role in a scenario.

10) Make sure your character walks, under Options > Controls > uncheck player runs by deafault.

11) It is suggested that character names should fit into in the Star Wars universe. Names that would have been given by your character's parents.

12 Once you have worked our your character's background and occupation, it can not be changed unless you role play a change in occupation. Medic one moment and then BH the next, without good cause or reason is seen as metagaming and may lead to you being ignored by other RPers.

Keep these twelve points in mind and although it means you will react more slowly to situations, you will find fellow RPers will give you time to do so.