Post by T-Robosaurus Rex on Jul 23, 2009 18:49:21 GMT -5
Role Playing Tips
[/size]1. Spelzo0rz r0xx0rrz!!!!!111
If that heading seems legible to you, we ask you spend a few more years in school before joining GIW. Spelling and grammar are important aspects of any piece of writing. No one is perfect of course and everyone will make silly typos on a regular basis, but make sure to write in legible English. If your scenes are going to consist of words (and I use the term loosely) such as ‘u’ ‘h8’ and ‘ZOMD!!!11’ then you might as well just not RP. That kind of thing causes migraines and that’s the last thing anyone wants when they’re reading stuff on the internet, instead of completing that project that’s due in tomorrow morning.
2. Go into an extremely significant, intricately important
and ever awe inspiring amount of detail.
The only way we can learn about your character is through what you tell us. Which means any amount of detail, no matter how small, you want communicated rests on your shoulders. We want to know everything about your character. We want to know their taste in music, their bad habits, their usual haunts, their friends (unless they’re like your average e-fedder and have none), their thought patterns, how they prepare for a big match, whether they fold or scrunch (okay, so maybe not that last one). The more detail you provide, the better your scene will be. Obviously you don’t have to tell us how many hairs your wrestler has on their head and such miniscule things. Just be thorough in your writing.
3. Be more creative than this heading.
This is a fantasy world, which means you can do whatever the hell you want (as long as you stay within the GIW rules of course). In real life, diving through a window, commando rolling into the apartment next door, springing to your feet and fly kicking the poor sap you just barged in on square in the face may be an impossible task, but our characters can do it just fine! Obviously if you’re shooting laser bolts at the sun in an attempt to blow it up and end the world, you’ve gone too far, but you get the idea. You don’t have to RP about a sweaty guy in tights telling a pencil necked interviewer how he’s going to kick his opponent’s ass at the PPV. Sure, you can if you want, but it isn’t very inspiring. Mix up your environments, experiment with things. After all, you want us to be entertained, don’t you?
4. You’re not unstoppable.
Okay, so this is a bit of a contradiction to what I just said, but it’s all a balancing act. When someone is writing a match they’re going to keep things realistic, but they’re not going to make someone else’s character look stupid just because you want your character to be ‘a monster’ either. The best characters always have a combination of strengths and weaknesses and yours should hold true to this. Reading about how you beat up 40 thugs that tried to jump you every single week will get very tedious very quickly. Mix things up. Allow your opponent to get the better of you. That’s how feuds are built up after all.
5. Format that shiat!
Formatting is very important when writing role plays. Coloured text can make things easier on the reader, but it can also be a distraction if you go too far. Many players have the speech of each character a unique colour while making narration text a separate colour again. This is fine, but make sure each character stays consistent throughout the scene. Having every line a different colour is just going to cause confusion. Also remember that a plain old black/white text piece of writing will not be frowned upon. Having coloured font won’t give you any bonus points and if your scene’s content sucks, pretty colours aren’t going to change that.
Also, under no circumstances, should you ever have moving text. That makes things far too annoying for the reader and will count against you when I'm deciding match winners.
6. I'm not needy, I just like attention.
As more RPs are written, the GIW universe is further shaped and defined. Precedents are set and rules created. The best RPs are the ones that work within these constraints and, hence, fit into the universe we've created here. Using characters correctly and not contradicting past events are keys to making a good RP into a great one. If you're just getting started here, this tip shouldn't concern you yet. No one expects you to have an in-depth knowledge of the fed straight off the bat. But as you gain a greater understanding of your fellow characters and the world they operate in, it's something to consider.
(Tips created, written and originally posted by The Letter P)[/center]
