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What is a roleplay?
A role-playing game is a type of game in which the participants assume the roles of characters and collaboratively create stories. Participants determine the actions of their characters based on their characterization, and the actions succeed or fail according to a formal system of rules and guidelines. Within the rules, they may improvise freely; their choices shape the direction and outcome of the games. In roleplaying, participants adopt and act out the role of characters, or parts, that may have personalities, motivations, and backgrounds different from their own.
What character do I play?
In a roleplay, you can create your own character. Make him/ her as you would like; gender, age, appearance, history, personality etc. Just remember that no one is perfect, and neither are roleplay characters. Sometimes a litter will be born to two characters being played. If that is the case, the player of the mother of the litter may decide who gets to roleplay the pups when they are old enough to be on their own.
How do I roleplay?
On MoonsWolfDen, the roleplay is a Play-By-Post roleplay. Play-by-Post games are usually written in the third person perspective. This allows the players and gamemasters to write in the personas of their characters. This is the best way to separate the player character from the person playing the character (the typist).
The first message posted onto a thread of that nature is usually one person laying down the scenario, starting a story about their character and inviting others. If successful, the thread then becomes an ongoing story in which players periodically advance the plot by reading the latest reply and then typing a short paragraph or two about what their character does and how the environment changes in response. These replies are often open-ended so that other players can continue.
Depending on the rules established on the forum, roleplaying and story can be pushed forward through moderation by a gamemaster, specific rules (often existing role-playing game systems), or by mutual agreement between players. Role-playing of the latter type does not rely on statistics or visible die, and this can sometimes render combat situations difficult for players used to such props. Any combat is usually written in entirety by one or two players; and in some systems will be allowed to include the actions of another player in their post. Commonly this practice is considered cheating in more established play-by-post games, where players are responsible for their own characters. Any form of this cheating (automatic hits and controlling another player's character) is commonly referred to as "god-modding".
In certain Play-by-post gaming circles larger-scale boards exist where the entire board is devoted to advancing a single storyline, rather than many different stories proceeding in separate threads. They vary in organization, but many include a full set of rules governing roleplaying and combat between players, threads detailing a set storyline (often contributed to by plot-advancing, staff-organized events, or player roleplays), character approval forums, and a full staff with admin(s) and moderators. These types of games then vary from that groundwork; some games go as far as to include a virtual "world" to roleplay in, by cutting up the entire game universe into separate forums, each based on locations within that universe. All games set in a particular setting are played in the corresponding forum.
Many message board based games establish a hierarchy of moderators to manage plot flow and continuity. To keep story threads organized the message board is often organized into forums based on geographical location within the game setting.
I'm having a battle between my character and another character
That's fine. A battle means there is *usually* a reason, and the characters are demonstrating their will power, as well as physique. Just make sure that your character's hatred toward another character is only in IC(In Character) and that you do not become mad at the character's player OOC (Out Of Character)
What do Powerplaying and Godmodeling mean?
Powerplaying is when you try (purposely or accidentally) to control another person's character(s). A prime example would be during a battle between your character and the opponent. If you type that your character attacked the other and bit their throat, piercing the life vein and killing them instantly, would be an example of powerplay. You never gave your opponent time to react and possible dodge the attack. If they did want to kill their character off, they'd have to post the death, or give you permission to do so.
Godmodeling is when your character has undefeatable power. 'Character flew into the sky and created a ball of energy the size of the moon and threw it at Character 2' would be an example of godmodeling. Other examples are when your character is immortal (unless specified to be and an exception for them is made) invincible, or emotionally invincible. Every character has his or her own flaw, and therefore are not perfect.
I can't understand what this means!
Sometimes there will be 'roleplay slang' posted on the boards.
OOC(Out Of Character)- when you are posting or speaking as yourself, not your character.
BIC // IC(Back In Character // In Character)- When you are posting or speaking as your character. Sometimes players will use double parentheses (()) to demonstrate Out Of Character.
Charrie- short for Character
RP- short for roleplay
PP- short for powerplay
GM- short for godmodeling
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