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Cashew's guide to roleplay - Cashew - 07-01-2014
Welcome to Cashew's guide to role play in Discovery!
First off the server we play on as you will probably know is a role play server, this means that you are playing, thinking, doing what the character you are controlling will do. Some people find this easy some don't, that's why I'm writing this.
I'll write this in steps so you can see some sort of structure.
1.) Where does your character come from? - This might be decided for you if you have joined say, a military faction. Otherwise you are free to choose from all four corners of Sirius (and in-between).
2.) What are your characters views? - What do they think about the universe? Take a look through the wiki and read some faction pages. It might help you decide who your character will become.
3.) What's your characters name? - Now you've established where your character comes from and what they think of the universe you can apply a fitting name. Maybe stereotypical?
4.) How do they speak? - Let's say I had a stereotypical Bretonian character, he isn't going to be saying "Hey". They'll probably say "Good day old chap". Try and fit some stereotypical phrases or slang to your characters voice. If you aren't going for the stereotypes then simply develop your characters own way of speaking. He might say some things weirdly or maybe have a stutter.
5.) What is your characters job? - Miner? Trader? Navy officer?
I'll write this in steps so you can see some sort of structure.
1.) Where does your character come from? - This might be decided for you if you have joined say, a military faction. Otherwise you are free to choose from all four corners of Sirius (and in-between).
2.) What are your characters views? - What do they think about the universe? Take a look through the wiki and read some faction pages. It might help you decide who your character will become.
3.) What's your characters name? - Now you've established where your character comes from and what they think of the universe you can apply a fitting name. Maybe stereotypical?
4.) How do they speak? - Let's say I had a stereotypical Bretonian character, he isn't going to be saying "Hey". They'll probably say "Good day old chap". Try and fit some stereotypical phrases or slang to your characters voice. If you aren't going for the stereotypes then simply develop your characters own way of speaking. He might say some things weirdly or maybe have a stutter.
5.) What is your characters job? - Miner? Trader? Navy officer?
This is a start on my RP (role play) tutorial. It's not finished yet.
If you need any help sorting out a character or you have any questions you don't want to post below feel free to PM me.
If you need any help sorting out a character or you have any questions you don't want to post below feel free to PM me.
RE: Cashew's guide to roleplay - Narcotic - 07-01-2014
I got it, not everyone likes stereotypical talk. What I like less is trolls. Consider this as a warning.
RE: Cashew's guide to roleplay - Haste - 07-01-2014
(07-01-2014, 05:49 PM)Cashew Wrote: 4.) How do they speak? - Let's say I had a Bretonian character, he isn't going to be saying "Hey". They'll probably say "Good day old chap". Try and fit some stereotypical phrases or slang to your characters voice. Another example is a Libertonian, "Howdy".
Okay. Seriously. As bloogaL pointed out (before his post magically disappeared), you're encouraging people to roleplay caricatures rather than characters. They work as a joke, but if you're suggesting people roleplay an actual believable character, I'd refrain from the stereotypical silliness.
Unless you're trying to argue that you, as a Brit, normally greet others on the street with "Good day old chap". If that is the case, ignore my feedback.
RE: Cashew's guide to roleplay - Cashew - 07-01-2014
Thanks for pointing that out I'll add that point of view as well.
RE: Cashew's guide to roleplay - Marabu - 07-01-2014
I don't want to sound too negative, and I can understand what you're trying to do, but these sort of tutorials are a waste of your time and effort. There are many similar tutorials on here, which are just as useless for the same reasons: hardly anybody who needs the information that you provide is going to find or even look for it here. If the information your provide is to make any difference, it should be included in the mod, written as a collective effort of several people so it's concise, accurate, easy to understand, easy to access, and entertaining enough to be read by someone who realistically would actually need this tutorial.
I had the same thought when reading the "community tutorial" about IDs that another guy was organizing. The same info is written 100 times already here in different places, writing it a 101st time isn't going to make a difference for the better, but only add to the confusion. Just like your tutorial should be a group effort and be put in the game/mod, the info there should better be introduced into the wiki page of said faction/ID instead of putting a new tutorial with slightly different information on the already huge stack of tutorials (which hardly anybody reads, apart from the people interested in making these tutorials).
On a sidenote, yes, I know brits who talk in a stereotypical brit way like that. Tea and biscuits, chaps, splendid fellows, lovely jovelies, and roger dodgers. And french people who talk in stereotypical oh la la french ways, and americans who talk like cowboys, or gangster rappers, or anyone from anywhere who uses stereotypes of their region/group/fad to enhance their communication. Much more annoying than people who RP stereotypes are people who try to find things to criticize in other people's RP and think it makes them look smarter.
RE: Cashew's guide to roleplay - Cashew - 07-02-2014
(07-01-2014, 11:09 PM)Marabu Wrote: I don't want to sound too negative, and I can understand what you're trying to do, but these sort of tutorials are a waste of your time and effort. There are many similar tutorials on here, which are just as useless for the same reasons: hardly anybody who needs the information that you provide is going to find or even look for it here. If the information your provide is to make any difference, it should be included in the mod, written as a collective effort of several people so it's concise, accurate, easy to understand, easy to access, and entertaining enough to be read by someone who realistically would actually need this tutorial.
I had the same thought when reading the "community tutorial" about IDs that another guy was organizing. The same info is written 100 times already here in different places, writing it a 101st time isn't going to make a difference for the better, but only add to the confusion. Just like your tutorial should be a group effort and be put in the game/mod, the info there should better be introduced into the wiki page of said faction/ID instead of putting a new tutorial with slightly different information on the already huge stack of tutorials (which hardly anybody reads, apart from the people interested in making these tutorials).
On a sidenote, yes, I know brits who talk in a stereotypical brit way like that. Tea and biscuits, chaps, splendid fellows, lovely jovelies, and roger dodgers. And french people who talk in stereotypical oh la la french ways, and americans who talk like cowboys, or gangster rappers, or anyone from anywhere who uses stereotypes of their region/group/fad to enhance their communication. Much more annoying than people who RP stereotypes are people who try to find things to criticize in other people's RP and think it makes them look smarter.
Would you like us to put together a thread containing all of the links to all the relevant tutorials?
RE: Cashew's guide to roleplay - Marabu - 07-02-2014
That already exists here:
http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=115249
On that page is also a link "how to create a RP character", which is trying to do the same thing as your thread.
Generally, it would be better to invest time and effort into improving existing tutorials instead of making new ones. Hard to do, I know, if the person who made the first one is no longer active. Maybe make a few moderators responsible for channeling group efforts into this sort of thing.
That, and writing more lore into the game itself (like history and laws) where people are more likely to read it. I'm thinking about something like an ingame infocard wiki system, that people can read while doing boring trade runs so they have something to do without having to alt tab out or use windowed mode. Like a command
/help
/help Laws
/help Laws Liberty
/info Role Play
/help IFF
/help rules
which will give you infocard-sized help together with references for further /help subjects.
RE: Cashew's guide to roleplay - Cashew - 07-02-2014
Awesome, I'll take this idea to the Angels and see what everyone else thinks
RE: Cashew's guide to roleplay - Thyrzul - 07-03-2014
I believe we already have something similar.