RULES ON: Roleplay

[Jacklo]

1. All users are required to post around 200-300's as a MINIMUM, you're allowed 3 chances. The first time you'll receive a PM as a reminder, the second time is a warning, the third time is a month suspension.

2. The standard:

• No Powerplay ("He shot her in the head and watched as she fell down dead" This is only allowed with none-important NPC's and DEFINITELY not with anyone's character without their permission!)
  
• No GodMode ("He dodged all the bullets from the gang and shot them all with one bullet", it basically means don't make your character invincible and don't make them immune to harm or with unrealistically powerful attacks/defenses)
  
• No Meta-Gaming ("Don't be a fool John Marston, I know all about your family!", this basically means your characters are all strangers to each other in the RP unless they know each other through pre-arranged plots or they're canon characters, but still, Shaky knows John but he doesn't know about his wife and Jack and everything he ever did, so keep this in mind when interacting with each other!)
  

3. Don't dead-end plots unless pre-arranged. This means when you join an RP try not to do the "Runs off crying" thing because very often, people don't want to follow you. Keep it nice and equal between everyone unless you've decided to bring the plot to a close!

4. Don't touch other peoples characters without their permission.

5. Really don't.

6. Not even their claimed characters. Just leave them alone :l

7. ALL rp's are turn based, you can jump into a thread (unless it is private) at any point but from then on you MUST follow a posting order, do not skip anyone's turn ;l

8. This being a mature forum you can roleplay sex up to the point the characters start to undress or touch at each others "special places", then its just awkward for any readers so you can take it to PM and/or Skip until the after part. Please be considerate though, I'm sure no-one wants to read your characters canoodling and seducing each other halfway through someone's plot with 4 other members in the same RP ;l

[Jacklo]

Quick examples of Roleplay:
_{(The characters used is going to be Steeple and Dean just for now)}

BAD roleplay:
Steeple sneered at the drunken lawman who sloppily tried to pull his gun on him. He darted forth and lunged out a hand, easily grabbing and breaking Deans arm with the force;
"I told you once, now sit down!"
With that he drew the knife from his belt and plunged it into Deans neck no missing.

Now children, this is bad because you didn't give the person who plays Dean any chances to reply. They are having a fun little fighting RP and now their character is deaaad, that's annoying isn't it? This is whats known as PowerPlay, when you don't give your opponent any time to dodge the attack, not to mention grabbing someones arm isn't really going to break it.


GOOD roleplay:
Steeple sneered at the drunken lawman who sloppily tried to pull his gun on him. He darted forth and lunged out a hand, enclosing it around the others arm with the shrill bark of;
"I told you once, now sit down!"
Secure in his grip, his fingers knitted against the cloth of the others sleeve as his own hand flew for the blade around his waist, he drew it, and tried to bring the blade up towards the others neck.

This is better! because you did give the person who plays Dean a chance to dodge the attack, its quite likely in this scenario that Dean WOULD be hurt, but maybe he saw the knife coming for him and stepped back or flinched out the way, so it only cut his chest and not plunged itself into his neck.


SCENARIO roleplay:
Steeple sneered at the drunken lawman who sloppily tried to pull his gun on him. He darted forth and lunged out a hand, enclosing it around the others arm with the shrill bark of;
"I told you once, now sit down!"
And with that, he brought his fist forth and slammed it into Deans gut.

Scenario roleplay is a sort of mix between them both and depends on whats happening in the environment. I'd say try to avoid this one if you're new to RP, but it basically means that you land your hit definitely if certain parts of the scenario is correct, e.g someones not going to be able to dodge a train if they're tied to the tracks. Dean is drunk, Steeple has hold of his arm pretty securely, Dean IS going to be punched in the tummy. This sort of RP is fine and usually other people don't mind much, because their characters don't end up dead.

Powerplay:
As sort of described above, is against this forums rules. It means you should never ever definitely kill someones character without their permission, and you should never definitely assume you will land your attack on them unless its a scenario role play post or if the partner lets you by discussing it with you in the chat box
(e.g
Jack1: Hey is it alright if Steeple punches Dean in the belly really hard?
Jack2: lol k he deserves it.)

This also means that you have to be FAIR to your partner, if they try to hit you, you cannot dodge every single attack, I'd say count yourself lucky and accept some of them before they start to try to kill you xD