How to Roleplay (MUST READ)

What Is Roleplaying?

Here are some guidelines on how to roleplay. First, let's ask a simple question- what is roleplaying? Roleplaying is acting as a character, in existence or made up, and interact with other characters.

Now, I'll teach you how to roleplay. Basically, when you're roleplaying, you should imagine you're writing the final draft of a story that's about to be published. When your character, or another character, is talking, it should be in quotations. Using correct spelling and grammar is a must. And you should be writing like you're writing a novel, too: your character is the second person narrator. For example, I might say, in a post:

Maxie wrote:

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Maxie walked into Mr. Malina's classroom to see him in the middle of a lesson. "My bad!" she said, not really caring.

And then he might say:

Mr. Malina wrote:

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"It's okay, Miss Ramirez. Have a seat, IN THE FRONT!" he replied, irritated that she didn't care enough to even SOUND it.

Powerplaying:

Something you shouldn't do is powerplaying. Powerplaying is when you take control of another character. This can be very aggravating, especially if the person does something annoying. For example:

Maxie wrote:

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Mr. Malina said, "SIT DOWN." she was mad that he would yell at her like that, "TAKE. A. SEAT." He repeated.

I hate it when people do really short posts, like:

Maxie wrote:

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She got mad.

Maxie wrote:

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She stood.

Maxie wrote:

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She laughed.

And so on... and it gets quite boring to read. Please put some effort into your posts; if you're going to post like that, combine it all into one post. I'm not saying your post has to be lecture-long, just make it interesting to read.

I hope you have an enjoyable time roleplaying! Any questions? Post them below!