 | Role-play
: To assume the role of. Example: I am role-playing a knight. I am pretending
to be a knight.
| RP
: An abbreviation of the word Role-play. Example: I'm going to RP for
a bit.
| Profile
: A character sheet depicting the qualities and information about a certain
character such as name, gender, inventory, powers, etc. Example: Name: --- /
Age: --- / Appearance: --- ...
| Out-Of-Character
: To talk out of one's role; to assume one's true role rather than one that
is being role-played. Commonly is surrounding by symbols such as (()), [],
and abbreviated as OOC. Example: ((Drat, my keyboard is a mess.))
| IC
: In Character (i.e. To resume the role I was rping as.)
| God
Moding : RPing IC, ignoring all rules of roleplay, making character a
super-being who can't die.
| Non-Playable
Character : A character that isn't controlled by regular characters
such as an innkeeper in a tavern or a guard at a gate. ( Sometimes a user that you're rping with will go into NPC
mode. Reasons maybe he/she needs to go offline.) Example: The following are
non-playable characters: Billy, Bob, the goblins, and the guards.
| Storyline
: Every RP has a story in it...read the first page of every RP you're going
to participate in before jumping in.
| Closed
RP : A close RP means that it is restricted for ONLY the users that
were invited. It's best not to disrupt other RPs that you're not involved
with.
Open RP : An open
RP means it's open to anyone.
| RP
Rules : Every RP made by different users has their own set of RP
rules, please follow them to avoid embarrassment.
| Quest
RP : These RPs are very committed. If you're not the 'serious' role
player than this isn't recommended for you. The reason is a Quest RP goes on
forever till something finally happens. These RPs are often organized by
"serious" roleplayers who know their stuff.
| School
RP : A place for those that would enjoy a good educational RP. Class
is in session!
| Anime/Manga/Game
RP : These RPs are mainly based on the series itself. For example: A
thread was created called "Final Fantasy RP" and that means the
RPers on that thread may RP in character as Cloud or Tidus or be original
characters that they have made up RP with the FF characters.
| Original
Characters : (OCs) Some RPs will have users that have made their own
character identity and name. Example: My username is Arwen but my RP
character name is Charles. Charles is Arwen's character; Arwen likes
chocolate ice-cream but Charles doesn't.
| Stock
Characters : These are characters that already exist in a television
show, game, or manga that you adapt and use for your own role play.
| Non-Player Characters
: (NPCs) These are characters that play a secondary role in the RP. For
instance, you have a character Samantha, and Samantha has a little sister.
Samantha might be your PC character, while her sister is the NPC. She is the
NPC because you don't mind if some one else plays her for a while, she just
needs to be there in the background whenever Samantha comes home. Sometimes
GMs play all of the NPCs or just the most important ones, and sometimes the
other players share this responsibility.
| Symbols
: Sometimes you will see those asteriks * used during an RP. Those often
times by most users are used to describe motion/action. But not everyone
uses it like that. Some may use color on the text and others will use
slashes / or make it to italic or small text or :: or ~. I can't really say
on this part because everyone is different. |
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