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 Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 7:49 pm
WELCOME!
This is a basic idea of how I view Roleplaying skills [or lack thereof]. Please note that to be a member of this guild you have to at least be at level four or five. One liners are NOT allowed anywhere in this guild, save for the OOC area....
The levels of Roleplay
By Sakura Ryou
Level One: Basic roleplaying, simple, not very detailed, minimal information used. EX: *runs in and says hi*
Level Two: More control, however, still using stars for actions. Slight detail, above basic. EX: *walks into the room, looks around, smiling at everyone present* Hello
Level Three: No stars used for actions, however, lax spelling, no punctuation, small, "one-liners". EX: suzie walks into the room and looks at all the people there. "hi guys!"
Level Four: Slightly more complex, involves grammar input, and proper spelling. However, posts are still within "One liner range". EX: Suzie enters the room, and looks around. "Hey everyone!" She says smiling.
Level Five: One liners are gone, the begining of full paragraphs starts. Third to last level. Classification: Short Story. EX: Laura walks into the room. Her hair is tied back and her dress is ironed. She smiles at Kate and walks over to her friend. "Hey Kate!" She says, smiling brightly.
Level Six: No more single paragraphs, proper punctuation, uses smaller font, fills up at least two paragraphs worth of information. Classification: Story. DETAILS!!!!! EX:
Sakura entered the room wearing a red shirt with matching bloodred pants. She sighed as she took off her heavy, red jacket. Her feet were sore with walking around town all day and she had to work late tonight.
Sakura walked up to her bedroom on the second floor, opening the door slowly. Why was she so scared? The old mansion wasn't creepy! It was her little heaven. She turned on the light and sat on her bed, falling back to stare at the ceiling.
Level Seven: Perfect roleplaying, accute details, almost Novel Worthy. Classification: NOVEL!!! Ex:
Jade's walking down one of Hogwart's many hallways...Actually, it's more like she's dancing. Every so often she begins skipping and she's even twirled once or twice. She's never been much of a dancer, as grace has never been a quality she possessed, but she can hardly contain her excitement. She's back home, in Hogwarts, where she belongs. Complicated family affairs--matters that even she still doesn't fully understand--had kept her from coming on time in September, but no matter. She's back now and that's all that counts.
She had sent an owl to Adrian the day before, to let him know that she was on her way, but she has arrived earlier than expected and is now patrolling the hallways where he's known to haunt in hopes of catching him. Of all the people at Hogwarts, there's no one she's missed more than him and she's eager to see him again.
Being that it is Halloween, Jade has decided to try out the muggle tradition of dressing up in costume...just for fun. It's apparent from the cream colored hat and blouse, the toffee brown skirt and vest, and the matching leather boots that she's chosen to be a "cowgirl," as they called them in the old, American films she had seen over the vacation. Their dress style had absolutely fascinated her and, being in a rather cheerful and silly mood, she decided to give it a go.
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 1:26 pm
Ways to Improve your Roleplaying!
A Lesson Provided by:
Serial No. 89757 (and her muse Serac)
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Lvl 1:
Ex: *runs in and says hi*
--- Analysis:
This would be a prime example of what is known as a 'one liner'. Bare minimum in action, bare minimum in description and well... bare minimim in everything. Asterisks are used to indicate action, something that shows that the specified person is in a beginning sort of stage in Roleplaying and taking after the ones in chatrooms. There is of course a large difference from forum RPs and the chatrooms.
--- Workshop:
First off, there is literally no grammar in this post. I'm not too sure to even call it a 'post' as it is a single sentence. Ways to improve would be to get rid of the astrisks (*) which is an idicator of action. In a literate roleplay, it is commonly accepted to at least have no markers for actions and quotations ("") for dialogue. An idea is to take the running in phrase and elaborate on how the specified person ran in. Of course it would be a good idea to go add a name of the person (especially if this is a first post, or if you're like me hold off on name usage and use it later when other characters demand that one uses a name), imagine the scene in your head. What does this room look like? Why do you run in? Who is there to say hi? and so forth and so on.
Lvl 2:
Ex: *walks into the room, looks around, smiling at everyone present* Hello
--- Analysis:
Ok, a bit more control over the character now. Though once again, no name, we can't tell if this is a chick or a dude. There isn't too much grammar control either. Suggestion would be of course just to not be so lazy. Capitalize sentence beginnings and names. At least there is a distinction between dialogue and action.
--- Workshop:
Obviously still transitioning out of the 'n00b' phase. Still could use some more detail. Quotations for dialogue. Who he or she is talking to, ect ect. All these could be used towards lengthening your post without having too much suplerfluous information.
Lvl 3:
Ex: suzie walks into teh room and looks at all the ppl there. "hi guys!"
--- Analysis:
The control is at least improving. Spelling and grammar could use some work. No capitlization, and still little detail. There is a name so we know who the character is. Still very little detail in the writing.
--- Workshop:
Well first of all, I would have hoped that the person would have at least gotten rid of the spelling errors. This isn't a chatroom, it is a Roleplay. This is a story, not some random actions that you're taking. You are no longer yourself, thus you should describe to other people what this character of yours is doing.
Lvl 4:
Ex. Suzie enters the room, and looks around. "Hey everyone!" She says smiling.
--- Analysis:
We've got proper spelling, proper grammar and punctuation. There are character names now and actions that are definate.
--- Workshop:
Still could use some deatail. We know now who the character is talking to, what she is doing and ect. But we still do not know why or how she does it. The character just does. Try to add some more info into the paragraphs.
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The levels after this do not need my commentary. Thus I hope you found these lessons a bit helpful. This is Serial no. 89757 and Serac signing out.
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