Post by Chiru on Jan 30, 2007 19:02:14 GMT -5
The Conversational RP, in this would be the 'Hall' of this site. In it Chiru and Nemesis would be seen as the Owners of the Hall...
Conversational RP is a more difficult medium, as it is extremely easy to cross the delicate ‘in character’ and ‘out of character’ line.
Conversational RP is more or less ‘speaking’ as our characters in a real time conversation such commenting to messages posted to the In Character discussion area of the forum. Your character however, isn’t ‘reading’. They are listening. They are there in the discussion.
Correcting spelling or grammar errors of someone else’s post is a clear cross of the in character/out of character line. Our characters are ‘speaking’ in conversational RP, so your character is not ‘reading’ what is being said, they are hearing it.
For example, if you find a post in the ‘conversational RP’ section in which someone posts an announcement or topic for discussion, please remember it is the character speaking. So your response should be in the mindset of your character.
What is hard to keep in mind are small terms that really are purely OOC. Speaking of the chat rooms, referencing to other ‘posts’, saying ‘my mun/human blahblah’, referring to the game, etc, is bringing out of character terms, into the in character medium, and should really be avoided. In Character, there is no ‘game’…our characters reside in the ‘city’. We have no YM; Yahoo messenger can be related into a cell phone or even a letter for proper conversational and narrative purposes.
A common slide is referencing ‘the humans’ behind the characters. For example, someone may slip into an IC conversational RP thread, ‘my human loves to sit for hours in front of a PC’ or ‘my human has business to attend, so I will be back later’. That is veiling. Its veiling the OOC to bring it into the IC medium, but it really is redundant and silly for the fact in the IC RP aspect, since when do vampires live at the beck and call of humans? They don’t. Veiling, while sometimes harmless, can quickly become ridiculous and it clutters up the flow of the In Character conversation.
For more information you should read:
Conversational RP Help
Additional RP note and etiquette
nemesis said:
Conversational RP is a more difficult medium, as it is extremely easy to cross the delicate ‘in character’ and ‘out of character’ line.
Conversational RP is more or less ‘speaking’ as our characters in a real time conversation such commenting to messages posted to the In Character discussion area of the forum. Your character however, isn’t ‘reading’. They are listening. They are there in the discussion.
Correcting spelling or grammar errors of someone else’s post is a clear cross of the in character/out of character line. Our characters are ‘speaking’ in conversational RP, so your character is not ‘reading’ what is being said, they are hearing it.
For example, if you find a post in the ‘conversational RP’ section in which someone posts an announcement or topic for discussion, please remember it is the character speaking. So your response should be in the mindset of your character.
What is hard to keep in mind are small terms that really are purely OOC. Speaking of the chat rooms, referencing to other ‘posts’, saying ‘my mun/human blahblah’, referring to the game, etc, is bringing out of character terms, into the in character medium, and should really be avoided. In Character, there is no ‘game’…our characters reside in the ‘city’. We have no YM; Yahoo messenger can be related into a cell phone or even a letter for proper conversational and narrative purposes.
A common slide is referencing ‘the humans’ behind the characters. For example, someone may slip into an IC conversational RP thread, ‘my human loves to sit for hours in front of a PC’ or ‘my human has business to attend, so I will be back later’. That is veiling. Its veiling the OOC to bring it into the IC medium, but it really is redundant and silly for the fact in the IC RP aspect, since when do vampires live at the beck and call of humans? They don’t. Veiling, while sometimes harmless, can quickly become ridiculous and it clutters up the flow of the In Character conversation.
For more information you should read:
Conversational RP Help
Additional RP note and etiquette