@arkandel said in The trappings of posing:
- General spelling and basic grammar
Have a good, solid grasp. I will generally prefer people with a better than solid grasp, but I'll happily play with people who flub a little bit. Once it starts getting difficult to read, I'll tend to steer clear of the player.
One paragraph. I think that one-liners have a very important place, but a lot of my favorite scenes end up more like 3-5 sentence poses. I generally only do multi-paragraph poses for things like big scene sets or maybe a big speech or something.
- Tempo - posing regularly at whatever time interval you prefer
I'll get antsy at 10 minutes. I really like 4-6 minutes. If someone is a poser who regularly takes 15 minutes, I generally will just direct myself elsewhere. It's not my bag.
- Personal peeves (wiki codes, %t tabs, whatever they might be)
UGH TABS. I hate them. I don't mind wiki code like * * or / / or whatever. I'm already using / / to emphasize stuff. Or _ _ is fine. The only thing in the world I prefer about Wikidot is some of their formatting code just because it works a lot better in actual posing. When I've played games that use Wikidot, I'll just double up my usual / to // and it'll italicize it in the log, which is nice.
If a game has an +autospace option, which a huge amount do, please do not add extra line breaks at the start of your poses!!!! DON'T FORCE ME TO HAVE AUTOSPACE IF I DON'T WANT IT. JUST USE THE CODE OPTION.
- Pose ordering such as not using (or using) three-pose rule over round-robin, etc
I'll auto-3pr at like 4-5 characters. 3 or less I'll generally do strict pose order. I don't mind people breaking it for special occasions, but I would mind if two players kept posing between themselves in a three-person scene.
And anything else I forgot, of course.
DO. NOT. THOUGHTPOSE. AT ME. Please don't explain motivations. I will use metaposing to 1) make dumb jokes about my own characters being dumb, or 2) give some explanation of body language stuff so that people can react.