Halicron's Rules For Good RP (which be more like guidelines)
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This is very true. I used to RP with Mercedes Lackey a long time ago, and while it was interesting RP, she very much had a story to tell and wasn't all that interested in stuff outside that story. Wonderful woman, very nice person, but really really loved having the story planned out in advance it seemed.
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@mietze
To me it depends on what people are trying to get out of RP.
I have played with excellent writers who I avoid like the plague for scenes because the scenes themselves while technically proficient always feel flat to me. And one of the people I enjoy rping with a lot is a pretty bad writer to the point a I cringe reading some of the poses. but if excellent and evoking emotions though the rp and is good at telling stories so I gladly deal with the less then stellar writing. -
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Examples are helpful. It would do well in a format where there is 1-2 lines per point, and linked/spoilered/expansion boxed examples.
I have a waggish sense of humor.
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@Misadventure said:
Examples are helpful. It would do well in a format where there is 1-2 lines per point, and linked/spoilered/expansion boxed examples.
Please follow AMA writing and formatting guidelines.
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Apply that to code and enjoy.
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@Misadventure It would be, definitely. I'm trying to keep it under 15,000 characters because most of the games I've seen have that as a post limit. I think I've exceeded that even now, so I'm trying to edit it as much as possible for length now.
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I'm trying to keep it under 15,000 characters because most of the games I've seen have that as a post limit.
You're planning on posting this to an on-game bboard? If so, plan for a 4k byte limit, which includes characters, spaces, and usually expanded tabs. (I believe Myrddyn's system expands before it saves.) ANSI coloration and international characters also take up extra bytes.
I don't think this is the kind of thing that should get posted to a bboard. It should be posted to a web forum, a wiki, a live tutorial session, a news file even, but not a bboard.
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It's a little much for a bboard, yeah.
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Plus, even if you do break it up into sections that the game can store, that much solid text is a huge pain to read in the MU* client window. You'll lose many readers with each page of information unless they have a reason to believe that it's important. Reading the text in a browser window is much less tedious.
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Isn't it perfect that in a thread about mu* RP we've had a long debate about spelling, and now about how tedious it is to read a lot of text in-game.
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If somebody started posing 3-4 screens worth of text at me as part of RP, I'd die.
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@ide If it helps there was also a discussion about how a poser that's way mismatched for others (in a scene of 1-2 paragraph posers, they are hammering others with 3-4 of fluff and thinking it makes them a better RPer/writer/what have you) can be tiresome and rude?
I think people do tend to tune out BBoards though. i think it's an excellent thing for a wiki. Putting it on a board for some reason feels pompous to me be I can't put my finger on why. Or why I would feel that way on a board but not the wiki, where I'd enjoy reading it. Hmm.
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@mietze said:
If it helps there was also a discussion about how a poser that's way mismatched for others (in a scene of 1-2 paragraph posers, they are hammering others with 3-4 of fluff and thinking it makes them a better RPer/writer/what have you) can be tiresome and rude?
Hey, now.
I'm not tiresome and rude because I like using paragraph breaks in my poses. I'm tiresome and rude because of my holier-than-thou attitude.
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You can Four Paragraph me any time you want to, Gany.
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@mietze said:
You can Four Paragraph me any time you want to, Gany.
Being tiresome and rude isn't the same as being long and rough, no matter how others use the words, darling.
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@mietze said:
I think people do tend to tune out BBoards though. i think it's an excellent thing for a wiki. Putting it on a board for some reason feels pompous to me be I can't put my finger on why. Or why I would feel that way on a board but not the wiki, where I'd enjoy reading it. Hmm.
Reading a long bboard post is not an issue. It fills up your window, but it fits. There are paragraphs and tabs, so it's all perfectly readable. Then there's a part 2. You open the next one, just as long, but as you do someone pages you. Four lines, that scoot the bbpost up and out of the relative comfort it was enjoying. You respond and scroll up to read the post. As you're reading, your screen flashes to tell you that there are new lines at the bottom. You start debating whether it would be less pleasant to continue reading without finding out what the message was, or to scroll up and down between your conversation and your reading. Each new line pushes the post further up the page. You finish the second post, and see that there's a third....
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Not to mention on Board a lot of people read them with the /u to get all the unread at once so all of that would be like three screens worth all at once.
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This doesn't belong on a bboard. It belongs on a wiki with a link to it in a bboard post.
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I don't think it really belongs anywhere in an official capacity, game-wise. Here is good, it's a discussion forum and so on. Putting it on a game in any sort of official capacity makes something that is unarguably subjective and making it seem like it's fact-based instead, like these guidelines make the one true way. Putting it on a game in a non-official capacity would just make you sound like a pretentious twit telling other players how to RP.
