Resaki
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 |  Subject: Roleplay Rules  Fri Apr 16, 2010 10:05 pm | |
| Role Play Rules These rules apply to when one is Role Playing and In Character. When To Role PlayGeneral RPing
Basically, once your character has been approved you may start RPing, but you can not use any jutsus, weapons, items, bloodlines, seals, spirits/demons, summonings, or creatures until they have been approved. It is suggest that if you do begin RPing after your character is Approved you only participate in Conversational RPs. Violent RPs
For RPs that invovle fighting or violence of some fashion, you may participate in them even if only your character has been Approved, but you'll be limited to only what a human's physical body can do and the Basic Academy Jutsu. If your weapons/items are approved you may use them in a fight. If your bloodline gets approved you may use them in a fight. So, if your stuff is approved you can use them. If they aren't, you can't. Keep this in mind when entering any topic. It is not the staff or the site's problem if your character gets killed because you were 'defenseless' when you yourself knew none of your creations were Approved. TopicsTitles
When make your own topic, please make sure to name your topic accordingly. The topic should be similar to a title of a book, meaning, it should show some insight as to what you wish to do in the topic. Generally there are three categories: Fighting, Conversing, and Surprise. Fighting generally means your topic is going to 99% have a fight in it from the beginning to the end. Conversing topics generally mean there won't be any violence and is primarily there for characters to get to know each other IC and not MetaGame. Surprise is well... surprise. Whatever happens in the topic happens, meaning it could turn into a fighting topic or a conversation topic. So, keep this in mind when choosing a title. If you put something like "Invasion of the Leaf" you're probably going to get high leveled characters and get involved with a fight. "Going out for Ramen" sounds more like you're out and about for a stroll, making new friends, finding out more about the world around you rather than causing fights or dying. "What Awaits in the Forests" seems like it could go either way or even go both ways. Choosing a title can make the difference between being ignored or getting someone to RP with, so make it brief, sensible, and descriptive. Tittle Tags
When you're making a topic or about to enter a topic, pay attention to what tags are in the title. Generally we'll use these tags: [Private] for closed RPs that may only involve certain people of the person's choosing. [Death] for RPs that have an extremely high risk of the death of your characters in it. [Mature/X Rated] for RPs that may contain X Rated material. [Open] for RPs that are generally open to anyone who wishes to join (this does not have to be added as its understood to be open unless you have [Private] in the title). [No Death] for topics that won't end in death or have the possibility of death (again this does not have to be added as its understood to be no death unless stated otherwise in the title). Sooo, lesson here? Enter a [Death] Topic and die, too bad for your character. Enter a [Private] Topic and get yelled at or flamed, again too bad, you were already warned. Enter/Read a [Mature/X Rated] Topic and complain, too bad. You were warned and we're not responsible. (NOW, if someone didn't label their topic properly, you can complain and probably should.) PostsSize/Length
Additionally, do not post one liners. The only place you could post one liners and get away with it is in the general discussion in spam topics. That place is meant for one liners and spam and what not. But everywhere else you should give at least a paragraph or if you can't do that, two sentences. Don't just put something like 'I don't like it.' or 'I love this idea.'.
Keep this in mind as well:
Genin: Minimum of 200 words per post.
Chuunin: Minimum of 300 words per post.
Jounin: Minimum of 400 words per post.
Kage/S-Rank: Minimum of 450 words per post. Grammar & Punctuation
Also, please try to use proper grammar when posting at all times (unless its in general discussion, spam topics). And this should be obvious, but type in English please. It doesn't help at all if you're typing in a language we can't understand. (And quite frankly, if you can't type in English or read English... we are wondering why you are here in the first place. You don't have to know it well, just enough so that you can RP with other people.) Use a spellcheck! (And don't you dare counter with 'I don't have spellcheck.' You have access to the Internet; therefore, you have access to an online spellchecker. USE IT!)
Remember! Hit preview before you post things and just skim through your post. Fix errors, and change things if it looks weird, too small, too big, unreadable, etc. The old excuse of 'I didn't know it'd look like that.' isn't acceptable at all when you have a preview option. So add in those periods, commas, question marks, and quotation marks. Formatting
Do not CAPTILALIZE, bold, italicize, underline, blind, size, or font your posts in a manner that we can not read. (Do not capitalize, bold, italicize, underline, blind, size, or font your posts in a manner that we can not read.) Please. Use common sense on this one: if we can't read it, we won't read it. Its okay if you do it for small sections of your posts, but if you do it for your whole entire post it hurts the eyes and no one will actually read it. It's just wasting your time and our time. If you're going to change the font for the whole post, please keep it to a readable font like Arial or Times New Roman; and if you're going to change the size for the whole post go up or down one size only. Everything else should be common sense. The DO NOTSMeta-Gaming
You can not and do not know everything about someone else’s character. Even if you are their sister or brother or mother or father, you do not know everything about them. You may know a lot about them, but not everything. For famous ninja, you may know their name and village of origin, but not their whole life story or jutsus. For other ninja, you generally wouldn’t know them. If they’re ninja from the same village as you, you may know their name. (This applies to first time meetings.) Your knowledge about other people’s characters grows as you continue to Role Play. What you know about people can be learned about their "Public Profile", things not listed or told of there shouldn't be known by you unless you're related to them IC or have RPed with them before and learned it from them.
Additionally, most, if not all, RPs are happening at different time frames. The general rule of thumb is that if a topic was started before you started a topic it could have been weeks or even months ago. If the time frame between two different topics are only a few hours apart, then you may or may not use that to your advantage in your topic (but your character must know of this IC in some way or it will be considered Meta-Gaming). But, doing so when topics are a day or more apart is an absolute no. And said topic may be voided or asked for an edit (if caught early enough). God-Modding
You can not absolutely positively control anyone's movements asides from your own or your NPCs. And in regards to this, you CAN NOT dodge every single attack thrown at you. And you CAN NOT hit everyone and everything. You may only use the Substitution Jutsu once per fight. Along with any customized variations only once per fight. Just because you can walk on walls does not mean that you're G/god. Nor can you 'suddenly' appear behind your opponent or somewhere else because you are 'fast'. Granted, SOME people can move extremely fast on this site, but not everyone can. And even if you can move extremely fast, you can not suddenly stop either, you have to gradually come to a stop.
It is advised that you do not use absolutes, but rather 'if' words like possibly, likely, might, should, would, could, probably, ought to, may, etc. These kind of words will definitely mean that you aren't God-Modding, or they should... Controlling Time
The time in an individual topic is dependent on the one who created the topic. If the creator did not state the time or even hint at a time, the next poster may do so. Until the time is established by someone its up for grabs, after that you must comply to whatever time someone chose.
Do note that in most RPs, the time is very different from real life. In fights, the longer the battle progresses the less and less the time frame gets. Attacks are now happening in minutes and seconds rather than two or three minutes at a time. So be extremely careful in how you word things. In fighting topics what you type can determine whether you live, die, or abuse the rules. In conversational RPs this really isn't that big of a deal, since this can usually be edited quite easily with little harm, but in fighting topics? No. Generally, when you misuse time you have to rewrite your whole entire post and the other person has a better idea of what to expect, so to save yourself the trouble, arguing, and so forth, please, please, please remember that in fights you have less and less control of time. If you ever want to confirm on the time in an RP, OOC it, ask it on the CB, or through a PM.
This rule does not apply to the setting though. If you started an RP and didn't explain the area in detail and your opponent does so in a way that is to their advantage before you do it is completely fair. You'll just have to deal with it. So, before you come complaining that someone's controlling the time and setting, make sure you didn't just forget to describe the time and setting and they just took advantage of that.
Last edited by lifeanddeath on Fri Jul 16, 2010 4:57 pm; edited 3 times in total (Reason for editing : Added in a major rule as instructed.) | |
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