Name: Ebony Character Race: dark elf Character OCC: Mercenary Real age: 23 Age looks to be: 23 Appearance of character: Stands at six foot three, otherwise there is a picture. Personality of character: Has a lot of aggression like, blunt to the point of rudeness.
This is extra that is always nice to have: Cloths normally wears: Leather, pant ot skirts, low cut shirts, but always wears leather and normally revealing cloths Weapons: Swords, daggers, and guns, take a pick, she likes all three Do they have magic, if so what type: Moon magic, minor things, locate some, barriers, minor healing, little things really. Pets: Ha, no, she prefers killing things, not taking care of the living.
Sadly I forgot about this site for like a year, a little less then a year, but a year, and am now once more trying to kick it on it's feet now that all it's old stuff has been deleated.... Yay!
Re: Role Playing Guide « Result #3 on Aug 13, 2006, 11:04pm »
Now, that's it, and no I DID NOT WRITE IT, a friend did, yay them, though I have to say no you don't have to be a perfect writer, I suck at writing, though please at lest use spell checker! Of course I need to use it more, but eh....
Re: Role Playing Guide « Result #4 on Aug 13, 2006, 11:03pm »
As my old English teacher always used to say, ‘show, don’t tell.’
If Bob is happy, SHOW why Bob was happy instead of saying Bob is happy.
Bob smiled as he walked outside. Not only was it a beautiful day, but school was over so he wasn’t stuck inside. Some of his friends were going to go get a baseball game started, and Bob was going to be pitcher. And if all that wasn’t enough, Sue was going to go watch him play. Maybe today would be the day he would finally get to impress her!
Notice how I never once said Bob was happy, but you could figure out that he was in a good mood by the things that I wrote about his day.
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Be original. Use a thesaurus if your vocabulary isn’t that big. Writing “…..” he said every time he says something. Use words like responded, replied, questioned, asked…stuff like that.
Re: Role Playing Guide « Result #5 on Aug 13, 2006, 11:02pm »
Speaking of writing better…length of posts. At Stellmond, there is no rule for how long and short your posts have to be. Lucky us; at another RP I’m at, you have to write at least 6 sentences. Most people write around 4 or 5 paragraphs for each post.
Put thought into your post. Add details. Add thoughts. Anybody can write:
A girl ran down the street skipping.
But doesn’t this next example sounds so much better?
A small, blonde girl ran down the sidewalk of the street. Her hair was flowing behind her in the wind as she skipped, hands at her side. On her face was a huge smile. “I love today,” she grinned to herself as she moved.
It only took me a few seconds longer to write, and a few seconds longer to read. Longer posts provide more insight to your character, and makes them more defined. Instead of just being some random name you read on a site, they become actual people.
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While making your characters, try to remember that over the top characters are not always the best. Sure, being an orphaned kid with 8 brothers and sisters, and having some special powers is interesting, but a normal girl who spent her life on her family’s ranch could be just as interesting.
Try to imagine your character as a real person as you write your posts. What would YOU do in this situation? Think of something that an actual person would do, then make your character do it.
Re: Role Playing Guide « Result #6 on Aug 13, 2006, 11:02pm »
Now. Talking. We all love to talk. I mean, who doesn’t? But, like all things in RPland, there are ruled to RPing talking. Use quotations. Quotes are these things: “.” “.” “.”
You use them at the start of a sentence when somebody is talking, and end the sentence with them.
Let’s go back to that third person guy opening his front door, and expand a little on it.
The man walked up his front steps, trying to remember which key opened his front door. Finding it, he stepped inside, turning the lights on. “That’s better,” he nodded in approval as the light flooded into his foyer. “Now I can see what I’m doing.”
There. See how I used the quotes just when he was talking? It shows people when somebody is speaking.
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I know a lot of people like astricts and dashes when they are writing their posts showing movement.
For example: *walks up to the front door*
But please, please don’t use those. Use third person writing. It makes your writing appear SO much better.
Role Playing Guide « Result #7 on Aug 13, 2006, 11:01pm »
HOW TO RP GUIDE.
So. You’re here, at Stellmond, so you must enjoy RPing. You might have looked at some people’s posts, noticing the obvious differences in them. Different styles of writing are ok; everybody writes differently.
And normally, we love different kinds of writing. However, at an RP, there is one style of writing we like people to use. The wonderful world of third person writing.
What is third person? Well, I think a better question would be what ISN’T third person. To do that, I’ll use examples. (gotta love examples!)
Now, all this is using the same scenario. Let’s say it’s of a guy who walked into his house and turns on the light. I’ll use all three styles of writing.
First Person: I walk up the front steps, trying to remember which key opens my front door. Finding it, I unlock the door and step inside, turning the lights on.
Second person: You walk up the front steps, trying to remember which key opens your front door. Finding it, you unlock the door and step inside, turning the lights on.
Third person (pay close attention to this, as this is what you have to use in your IC posts!) The man walked up his front steps, trying to remember which key opened his front door. Finding it, he stepped inside, turning the lights on.
So Third Person isn't using pronounds like 'you' our 'I'.
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Understand the basics of third person now? Good. Use pronouns like ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘his’, ‘her’.
And since we are on the subject of grammar; use past tense verbs. Those are things that have an ‘ed’ on the end. Walked, listened, waited…
Example time!
Present tense in third person: She runs around the house while she listens to her music.
(This is next example is what you are supposed to use) Past tense in third person: She ran around the house while she listened to her music.
A little history of Burning « Result #9 on Aug 30, 2005, 2:10pm »
Burning use to have lots of people living in it's walls, for many years, but a fire broke out and consumed many of the people and the entire town. Well over half the town was killed in the fire, and the rest left, very few people stayed to rebuild the town, and they are mainly the shopkeepers that stayed. Because of the fire the town was renamed Burning because it is believed that after a great disaster you name a town after that disaster to keep it from happening again. The main person responsible for the rebuilding of the town is the owner of the town, a woman that few will ever see or even hear of.
How to RP guide « Result #10 on Aug 29, 2005, 9:19pm »
Now I got this from a friend, but the rp guide helped out some folks, so here you go if you need help understanding what I mean you write like in a story. How to RP guide
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