Role playing или Rping as most of the community calls it. Almost everyone's done it one way или another whether they realize it или not. Remember those days when you'd pretend Ты were a movie character или a prince/princess или a pirate или whatever. Ты were role playing in a since. Now days when Ты hear the word role playing Ты probably think things like War Craft, звезда Craft, Nights and Dragons, Toontown, etc..
Something you've probably never figured however, is rping in relation to writing. Writing, that's all rping basically is. It's just Письмо a collaborative story from different points of view and interacting.
Rping pre-established plot или not can be a lot of fun and very productive. Especially when writing, Ты can create a place and really get a feel for the setting, a character, или even play with plot ideas. Through rping I have fleshed out- make a character еще realistic или 3D. Numerous characters in half the time. Ты can place them in numerous settings and think about what they would do. Ты can literally be inside your character's head do what Ты think they might would do, say what they might would say. Learn a outcome you've never figured before.
Rping allows Ты to persue things with your character like a senario. Say there is a zombie attack would your character be еще likely to stay where they are или help. Would they argue with everyone или get something done. This one character I have was designed for the 30's. He was a basic cop with a German Shepard dog who Остаться в живых his parents when he was 12. After rping with him in the present day, the 1850's and the future in a variety of scenarios. A cop, a former Federal Marshal till a zombie attack, a soldier, a retired special forces officer teaching. From those experiences I have picked the best traits I feel to stay consistent with him. One he's either a cop или a man of the military или both. Two he Остаться в живых his family when he was 12 though now he Остаться в живых his parents and four siblings. Three he has a trusty German Shepard dog that found him. I have several others I'll mention later on.
If Ты have something basic like I listed above a cop and his German Sheperd for example или just a teenage boy. Ты can come up with a past and a since of who they are. Like I'll use my cop. Undercover Detective Edward Dillinger and his dog.
After just a few months of rping him. I now have for character traits and general knowledge that makes him human is.
Edward has a temper and has been known to перфоратор, удар, пунш a person или a Стена if he gets in a bad enough arguement. Attack him или his dog with words или physically it equals a fight. Due to his ruff childhood and career. Having had Остаться в живых his parents and four siblings as well as his best friend/partner. He has PTSD- Post Tramatic Stress Disorder and has been known to drink heavily. His dog being one of the only ones that can calm him down. He's a hero, the type that would take a bullet for a complete stranger and he has bad survivors guilt morphed into the PTSD.
See how much I have there in so little time... Another character I have named Jack Rains all I had was the name and that he was in the 17-18 range. Just after a few hours of rping I established. He's a jokester he loves to wise crack and be sarcastic and pick on his elder friend Boris Chaney. He had a little sister-Lizzy and a mother. He can be a bit clumsy at times and he doesn't always know when to shut up. Also I learned that he's terrified of snakes and was in a нож fight in high school where he was the only one without a knife.

What can Ты learn from your characters?

A character I long had established named Fang. I learned even еще from. He has a temper but, he'll stand up for what he believes in. He's only had his spirits partially broken in his life time and he payed weapon x back for it in the end. He was born in 1912 and is as of 2013 101 years old though he still looks like he's around 14-16 range. His claws had a rare metal bonded to the bone cells themselves and I've managed to figure out how long it might would take for hm to heal. His memory was erased in the mid to late 60s. He is a chimera. If his wings get wet he sinks and his healing ability functions off of protein. He also has PTSD and is a natural born instigator. Only if Ты start with him of course unless your a prison guard.

Originally all I had was his name was Fang and he was a mutant born during WWII in a secret government test facility and he went and joined the X-Men years later in the future. Wolverine was his father by DNA. His memory was erased and he had adamantium claws, wings and a healing ability.

Rping helps:

-character development as I stated and explained above
-creating a world. I have this battle academy that went from your basic school that allows weapons to... A school with secret passageways, that exists on a island made up of multiple terrains. That has a gymnasium that can creat any senario.
-research. Ты can do research as Ты go and ask others if they know for instance. I had a doctor in the 1850s and a character was drowning. Well CPR hadn't been officially invented yet. I found out about the Sylvester method that was used. My Друзья didn't realize it and I taught them something new. Once I had a character that could heal. A friend helped me make it еще realistic like it can take between a час and a week for major injuries but only секунды for scratches and instant for bruises.
-gadgets. Ты can come up with your character's choice weapon and find how useful it would be to them in a somewhat realistic way. For example in a steampunk one my character uses a Winchester but also a bow and Стрела that folds up. Another example is my character has found during a zombie apocalypse arrows are better than bullets cause it's harder to run out of them and it isn't hard to make them. One of my friend's weapon of choice is a shovel.



There is always something to improve on so why not try rping it's easy and fun and Ты don't have to do a video game to do it. All Ты need is a Форум thread, an idea, a character and at least one other person to Присоединиться you. Being a Rper for 2 years now I can say its one of my Избранное things and it could easily become your favorite.

I think I'll take some time to explain some basic terms and rules first though before Ты stop Чтение this article.
First of all ask to Присоединиться unless it hasn't already started.
Don't spam it till Ты get an answer sometimes Rpers rp while the one that started it is offline and they will get back to you. Just check often.

-No meta gaming или god modding, which basically means don't over power anything and don't use information that your character would otherwise not know.
-no bunnying или no bunnying without permission, means say Ты and a person are talking say in Camelot. They aren't online and Ты want to talk to someone in say Glasgow. Ты can't say the person went with Ты unless Ты got permission from the person.
-no one liners, pretty basic means make your response еще than one line and make it descriptive. For example:

Bad idea. Joe walked up to the castle.
Good idea. Joe walked down the winding path to the castle. He looked up at it. The walls were ominous black eroded stone. It looked like a place Dracula would get along well in. Joe swallowed and prayed that Dracula didn't live there.
-OOC, Out of Character, I means like talking person to person versus character to character many use either (()), [],() или some other version of those to explain they are Talking out of character. I prefer (()).
-bump, means moving the thread up in the recents so Ты don't have to Поиск for it. Also it can be used to bring something to mind.
-abide by other thread creators rules
-if there is a character sheet fill it out before Ты jump in it lets them know about the character your using Ты usually can modify the sheet and add a field или remove it though the fields in the original sheet generally is required
Ex: Name:
Age:
Personality:
Appearance:
Backstory:
Other:
-Open rp, means anyone can Присоединиться at anytime
-closed или private rp, can't Присоединиться или Ты have to ask to join
-be nice to others and don't take the stuff seriously. Don't get in a fight fight and take it hard или as a personal attack. It's just character to character fighting
-cursing, most prefer little to none
-sex, usually prefer fades to black или going to messenger to do it then return back to the thread
-read the entire first post before joining. Each rp has a different plot and style Ты may not want to Присоединиться the first one Ты click on only ones like the 'Coffee house' are threads where any character can join. I don't always Присоединиться a rp I look at based on what the first post says. For instance there was one that was one called Camp Half-blood it was Demi-god based and I don't really care much about Demi-gods so I chose not to join.
-join as many as Ты can handle Ты need to Присоединиться enough Ты can keep up with and still get real life tasks done, sleep's important too
-Reality always comes first
-do your homework. Ты want a schizophrenic character? Research it. People get offended when Ты use a movie portrayal.
-don't make your character unbeatable, in other words make them human
-make your responses open ended. For example
Good idea:Fang threw a перфоратор, удар, пунш at Victor.
Bad idea:Fang threw a перфоратор, удар, пунш at Victor breaking his nose.
-NPC, non personal character, means they are just there usually not referred to by name
Ex: the guard walked up to Fang and ordered"move!"