Post by Frenchie and K. Sera on Nov 5, 2010 14:40:18 GMT -8
If joining Fantasmic Kingdom is your first time roleplaying, or you would just like to work on becoming a better roleplayer, then you may find this list of tips and suggestions useful.
1.) Many people (myself included) can be put off by spelling and grammatical mistakes. One or two typos in a post isn’t a crime, but it’s assumed by most that if you’re old enough to be roleplaying on the Internet, then you must have taken at least a couple of basic English classes and are literate. Your posts reflect on you, and I know you don’t want to look ignorant in front of everybody else.
Make sure punctuation is in its proper place. Don’t use chat-speak or abbreviations in in-character posts, unless your character is, well, actually using chat-speak or abbreviations. Proboards has a spell-check feature. When you’re about to post in a thread, you will see a row of four gray buttons beneath the message box. Hit the one that says “spell-check” and go on from there. The rest should be simple enough to figure out. Microsoft Word is also good for catching errors. But be careful though, because sometimes even spell-check or Word can make mistakes, and it’s up to you to catch them. Proofread your posts!
2.) You may not be professional writer, but that shouldn’t stop you from adding depth to your character! Okay, so say your character like flying airplanes or has a sweet tooth. Is that all there is to him/her/it? It shouldn’t be. This goes for heroes, villains, and neutrals. One-dimensional characters are boring.
If you play a character that hasn’t received much development in canon, then this is your opportunity to delve into them and further their characterization! Just be sure that you characterize them in a way that makes sense with what you already know from the canon source. Who knows, you just might end up making more people fans of your character!
For that matter, don’t make your character super-talented and awesome, or load them down with a billon flaws. Real people have weaknesses and flaws, and so should fictional characters. For example, Scrooge McDuck (who I play) can be greedy, irascible, and shortsighted. However, he balances this out by being a knowledgeable and a clever businessman. Balance is the key!
3.) No one wants a one-liner or twenty paragraphs. For that matter, please don't stretch your post out by using ridiculously long ellipses and commas, it’s just lazy and obvious. Describe what your character sees, hears, smells, thinks, and feels. What do they think about the other characters they’re interacting with? If you describe your character’s feelings and actions as well as what’s going on around them adequately enough, then you should end up with a decent-sized post. Another way of beefing your posts up is mood-setting. What time of day is? How’s the weather (if your character’s outside) or the surroundings?
4.) Please don’t make everything about your characters. This would be a character that is constantly demanding attention from others in one form or another. Some examples include the character constantly needing help (“My family’s in trouble! Again!”, “Help! I’m being kidnapped by the villain who wants to marry me because of my beauty! Again!”, etc.), or trying to show off for the other characters all the time. This is extremely annoying and looked down upon.
If anyone else has any useful tips they'd like to add, go for it!
1.) Many people (myself included) can be put off by spelling and grammatical mistakes. One or two typos in a post isn’t a crime, but it’s assumed by most that if you’re old enough to be roleplaying on the Internet, then you must have taken at least a couple of basic English classes and are literate. Your posts reflect on you, and I know you don’t want to look ignorant in front of everybody else.
Make sure punctuation is in its proper place. Don’t use chat-speak or abbreviations in in-character posts, unless your character is, well, actually using chat-speak or abbreviations. Proboards has a spell-check feature. When you’re about to post in a thread, you will see a row of four gray buttons beneath the message box. Hit the one that says “spell-check” and go on from there. The rest should be simple enough to figure out. Microsoft Word is also good for catching errors. But be careful though, because sometimes even spell-check or Word can make mistakes, and it’s up to you to catch them. Proofread your posts!
2.) You may not be professional writer, but that shouldn’t stop you from adding depth to your character! Okay, so say your character like flying airplanes or has a sweet tooth. Is that all there is to him/her/it? It shouldn’t be. This goes for heroes, villains, and neutrals. One-dimensional characters are boring.
If you play a character that hasn’t received much development in canon, then this is your opportunity to delve into them and further their characterization! Just be sure that you characterize them in a way that makes sense with what you already know from the canon source. Who knows, you just might end up making more people fans of your character!
For that matter, don’t make your character super-talented and awesome, or load them down with a billon flaws. Real people have weaknesses and flaws, and so should fictional characters. For example, Scrooge McDuck (who I play) can be greedy, irascible, and shortsighted. However, he balances this out by being a knowledgeable and a clever businessman. Balance is the key!
3.) No one wants a one-liner or twenty paragraphs. For that matter, please don't stretch your post out by using ridiculously long ellipses and commas, it’s just lazy and obvious. Describe what your character sees, hears, smells, thinks, and feels. What do they think about the other characters they’re interacting with? If you describe your character’s feelings and actions as well as what’s going on around them adequately enough, then you should end up with a decent-sized post. Another way of beefing your posts up is mood-setting. What time of day is? How’s the weather (if your character’s outside) or the surroundings?
4.) Please don’t make everything about your characters. This would be a character that is constantly demanding attention from others in one form or another. Some examples include the character constantly needing help (“My family’s in trouble! Again!”, “Help! I’m being kidnapped by the villain who wants to marry me because of my beauty! Again!”, etc.), or trying to show off for the other characters all the time. This is extremely annoying and looked down upon.
If anyone else has any useful tips they'd like to add, go for it!
