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<blockquote data-quote="perrinmiller" data-source="post: 5985056" data-attributes="member: 88649"><p><strong>General PbP IC Posting Advice</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><u><strong>General PbP IC Posting Advice:</strong></u></span></p><p></p><p>Some tips to keep in mind for PbP:</p><p></p><p>1. I look at it like this: every IC post is like a snapshot of time from a scene of a TV show. Even if your character is doing nothing important, he/she is doing something. Just describe it. No one stands around silent and statuesque all of the time.</p><p></p><p>People are social, look at all of the people that cannot help writing comments and replying to forum messages with something to say. So why is it so hard to imagine what one's character would say at any given moment? It kills me that some people cannot post at least some action and a piece of dialog every IC post.</p><p></p><p>2. The point that I think many people miss is that they feel role-playing is mostly about what your character says. I will try to quickly give an example for what someone could be doing with Grog, a strong and silent type character that is an all too common choice. </p><p>3. Not posting does NOT mean your character is standing around with nothing to say. Not posting is not participating or playing at all. People that do that are actually negatively impacting the game. A DM should either avoid them as players or boot them out if they don't change.</p><p></p><p>4. The opposite side of people posting are the ones that do not post much description of what their character does, but thinks good role-playing is based on how much their character says. They hold a conversation posting paragraphs of dialog without even considering the other characters might reply or react to the first few sentences. I call this monologuing, not good role-playing. The DM's NPCs are no different, they should not do this either.</p><p></p><p>5. Some players fail to post any non-dialog at all in a post. This is an amateurish and lazy habit. Every IC post should start with the character's name and be written as a sentence at least. If a character is always talking TO someone or replying to someone. If they are not, then they are "replies to no one in particular" at least, right?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="perrinmiller, post: 5985056, member: 88649"] [b]General PbP IC Posting Advice[/b] [SIZE=5][U][B]General PbP IC Posting Advice:[/B][/U][/SIZE] Some tips to keep in mind for PbP: 1. I look at it like this: every IC post is like a snapshot of time from a scene of a TV show. Even if your character is doing nothing important, he/she is doing something. Just describe it. No one stands around silent and statuesque all of the time. People are social, look at all of the people that cannot help writing comments and replying to forum messages with something to say. So why is it so hard to imagine what one's character would say at any given moment? It kills me that some people cannot post at least some action and a piece of dialog every IC post. 2. The point that I think many people miss is that they feel role-playing is mostly about what your character says. I will try to quickly give an example for what someone could be doing with Grog, a strong and silent type character that is an all too common choice. 3. Not posting does NOT mean your character is standing around with nothing to say. Not posting is not participating or playing at all. People that do that are actually negatively impacting the game. A DM should either avoid them as players or boot them out if they don't change. 4. The opposite side of people posting are the ones that do not post much description of what their character does, but thinks good role-playing is based on how much their character says. They hold a conversation posting paragraphs of dialog without even considering the other characters might reply or react to the first few sentences. I call this monologuing, not good role-playing. The DM's NPCs are no different, they should not do this either. 5. Some players fail to post any non-dialog at all in a post. This is an amateurish and lazy habit. Every IC post should start with the character's name and be written as a sentence at least. If a character is always talking TO someone or replying to someone. If they are not, then they are "replies to no one in particular" at least, right? [/QUOTE]
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