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Becoming Part of an RP
There are, naturally, two ways to become part of an RP: Joining an existing one or starting a new one.
Joining an existing RP
Some RPs allow new people to join in while the RP is already in progress. Most, however, do not - many RPs are closed RPs limited to a certain group of users, while others may have simply progressed to the point that introducing a new character without warning would be disruptive to the story. Others still may have not seen activity for a long time and have been abandoned, thus attempting to continue them may be a futile endeavor (check the latest reply date - it's good practice anyway).
Thus, before attempting to join an existing RP, please make sure that it is OK to do so by contacting the topic creator via a Private Message or other means (such as the discussion threads that many RPs have in the the General RP Discussion board) and asking them if there's an open spot in the RP for you. Please refrain from leaving a post in the actual RP thread itself asking if you can join. Private Messages exist for a reason. Use them.
Starting a new RP
To borrow a phrase from the world of tabletop role playing games, when you start an RP thread you take on the position of "Dungeon Master" - that is to say, it falls to you to describe the environment, the setting and your character's place in it in sufficient detail - and to create an opening for another player to come in. It is virtually impossible for people to join a new topic if they have absolutely nothing to go on - so, if you are not ready for that kind of a commitment due to lack of time/energy/effort or other reasons, do not start new RP threads.
Also, remember - we do our RPing in story format. Ergo, write a sufficiently long post that is at least a few paragraphs long. if a prospective player looks at your introduction and thinks "Is that all you've got?", you are clearly doing it wrong.
A note on "Sign-Up" Posts: It is general consensus that sign-up posts (that is brief blurbs describing a setting vaguely followed by a 'post your characters here!' type thing) are unnecessary wastes of space that serve no purpose but to hold an RP thread down - and do not count as valid introduction posts. Therefore, they are not to be posted on the Pokémon Role Play Forum. If you wish to discuss the manner of details usually dealt with in this manner, please use the General RP Discussion board or Private Messages. All character bios should be posted on the General RP Discussion board as well, either within a topic specifically created for your RP or the Mainstream RP Characters Bios topic.
The Big "Do Not"s of RPing
These are the biggest, most important and most basic things that you must never, under any circumstance do in an RP - and will NOT be tolerated here.
Autoing - "Hey, didn't I kill you last episode?"
Autoing (also known as "bunnying" in certain RP communities) is the act of controlling another RPer's character without their permission. This may take many different forms - from describing another player's character taking a certain action that their player did not make them take to forcing a hit on another player's character in a battle - all of which are equally annoying and none of which are considered acceptable behaviour.
Superplaying/Godmoding - "Let There be Light!"
Superplaying, Also known as "Godmoding", "Powergaming" or (less commonly) as "IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAND!" is the act of breaching your character's limitations and doing something that should be entirely impossible for them to do even within this fictional universe. A special power or two are fine (as long as you can explain them properly) - but something to the line of destroying a planet with sheer thought is taking it too far.
Guidelines for Role Playing
Though these are described as 'guidelines', they will be enforced in the same way as any other rule here.
Avoid Mary Sues - "That's the fifth one this week!"
Mary Sues (or their male equivalent, Gary Stus/Marty Stus) are characters who are unbelievably perfect and 'special' to the point the laws of the universe seem to bend to accommodate for them. Note that a strong and talented character is NOT necessarily a Sue - you don't have to start your characters off as beginners or weaklings - but keep it believable. There is a difference between writing a character who is a seasoned trainer and a 17-year-old Rocket executive cat-girl with 200+ Pokémon, hyper-sharp senses and some dark, generic sob story past involving genetic engineering, magical amulets and signing a contract with the unholy lovechild of Espurr and Sylveon.
If you may have any concerns that your character may be a Sue or a Stu, here are a simple test or two.
Continuity matters - "I could have sworn that table was on the left side five seconds ago."
When you write an RP post, you are writing a story in collaboration with several other people. As such it is extremely important to be mindful of your surroundings and of the actions of other characters to keep a solid, flowing continuity and avoid general confusion. Simply put: we don't want rooms spontaneously shifting into forests or characters randomly shifting appearance/locations because someone got too lazy to read other people's posts.
Grammar and spelling also matter- "Whait oh no where id isotop? Uit has bin stoled!"
This should go without saying - but in story-format RPing, spelling and grammar matter a great deal. This means we expect you to go over your posts, format them properly (no one likes a wall of text), spell-check them and actually make them readable without other people having to bust out a Rosetta stone.
This thread is a good resource for all things grammar/spelling related in RP, and we strongly recommend you read it.
Violence in RP- "And then he ran into my knife! He ran into my knife TEN TIMES!"
Most settings in which RPs may occur tend to involve fights, battles and other altercations. While there isn't an exact limit on the amount of horrible grotesque things that can happen in an RP - "on-screen" violence is not everyone's cup of tea. Therefore, we ask that:
This looks relay fun so lets see if we can get this added
So To Start Lets Use This Scenario
Plot: Many years after the events of the Pokemon D/P/Plat games, the Sinnoh region has become much more technologically advanced, using new Nuclear Reactors and train lines to travel from city to city. Though with these advancements come dangerous chances, and after many years these chances catch up to the region. One day a Mysterious figure broke into the plant and set off the reactor, blowing away part of the region [exact towns and routs to be announced soon] and radiating the rest of the region. This RP takes place about a year afterwards, the radiation in most parts are low enough that travel and exploration through the area is safe, but keeping to interiors is best.
The RP will be more about survival, classic survival, with scavenging and what not. We will start as separate Pokemon and through the RP we will meet up and form a tribe like group to survive. Along the way we will meet bandit groups and have difficulties, but this is, for the most part, a more causal RP.
Rules:
~All basic RP rules apply: Grammar, no 'Sues' character, be polite, etc....
~No Legendary pokemon, BUT you may ask about Mythical pokemon [Shaymin, Celebi] as long as you have fair moveset to them This should go without saying given what the rules say about legendaries.
~Pokemon will have 6 moves for the RP, to give a bit more freedom since we will not have trainers or items to change moves out, on that note...
~We will not be 'leveling' during the RP, therefore whichever pokemon, pokemon evolution stage, and/or forme you choose you will have to stick with [unless it is changed by a move like cherrim]
~Keep an eye on the rules, as if something comes up in the RP that causes issues or misunderstanding I may have to add rules
To Join Just Reply To This Thread With the Following
~Name:
~Gender:
~Level: [mostly so i know your moves are legal, stay between 30-50]
~Shiny?:
~Pokemon Species: [the exact stage of evolution, also what forme you are if needed]
~Moveset: [6 moves that work with the level you are, Also Eggmoves, TM/HM, and tutor moves are all fine]
~Personality: [no, not the generic one pokemon gives, give a bit of detail]
~History: [doesn't have to be an essay, honestly I jsut wanna know what you were doing before the destruction and what you were doing during the first year of the 'Fallout']
There are, naturally, two ways to become part of an RP: Joining an existing one or starting a new one.
Joining an existing RP
Some RPs allow new people to join in while the RP is already in progress. Most, however, do not - many RPs are closed RPs limited to a certain group of users, while others may have simply progressed to the point that introducing a new character without warning would be disruptive to the story. Others still may have not seen activity for a long time and have been abandoned, thus attempting to continue them may be a futile endeavor (check the latest reply date - it's good practice anyway).
Thus, before attempting to join an existing RP, please make sure that it is OK to do so by contacting the topic creator via a Private Message or other means (such as the discussion threads that many RPs have in the the General RP Discussion board) and asking them if there's an open spot in the RP for you. Please refrain from leaving a post in the actual RP thread itself asking if you can join. Private Messages exist for a reason. Use them.
Starting a new RP
To borrow a phrase from the world of tabletop role playing games, when you start an RP thread you take on the position of "Dungeon Master" - that is to say, it falls to you to describe the environment, the setting and your character's place in it in sufficient detail - and to create an opening for another player to come in. It is virtually impossible for people to join a new topic if they have absolutely nothing to go on - so, if you are not ready for that kind of a commitment due to lack of time/energy/effort or other reasons, do not start new RP threads.
Also, remember - we do our RPing in story format. Ergo, write a sufficiently long post that is at least a few paragraphs long. if a prospective player looks at your introduction and thinks "Is that all you've got?", you are clearly doing it wrong.
A note on "Sign-Up" Posts: It is general consensus that sign-up posts (that is brief blurbs describing a setting vaguely followed by a 'post your characters here!' type thing) are unnecessary wastes of space that serve no purpose but to hold an RP thread down - and do not count as valid introduction posts. Therefore, they are not to be posted on the Pokémon Role Play Forum. If you wish to discuss the manner of details usually dealt with in this manner, please use the General RP Discussion board or Private Messages. All character bios should be posted on the General RP Discussion board as well, either within a topic specifically created for your RP or the Mainstream RP Characters Bios topic.
The Big "Do Not"s of RPing
These are the biggest, most important and most basic things that you must never, under any circumstance do in an RP - and will NOT be tolerated here.
Autoing - "Hey, didn't I kill you last episode?"
Autoing (also known as "bunnying" in certain RP communities) is the act of controlling another RPer's character without their permission. This may take many different forms - from describing another player's character taking a certain action that their player did not make them take to forcing a hit on another player's character in a battle - all of which are equally annoying and none of which are considered acceptable behaviour.
Superplaying/Godmoding - "Let There be Light!"
Superplaying, Also known as "Godmoding", "Powergaming" or (less commonly) as "IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAND!" is the act of breaching your character's limitations and doing something that should be entirely impossible for them to do even within this fictional universe. A special power or two are fine (as long as you can explain them properly) - but something to the line of destroying a planet with sheer thought is taking it too far.
Guidelines for Role Playing
Though these are described as 'guidelines', they will be enforced in the same way as any other rule here.
Avoid Mary Sues - "That's the fifth one this week!"
Mary Sues (or their male equivalent, Gary Stus/Marty Stus) are characters who are unbelievably perfect and 'special' to the point the laws of the universe seem to bend to accommodate for them. Note that a strong and talented character is NOT necessarily a Sue - you don't have to start your characters off as beginners or weaklings - but keep it believable. There is a difference between writing a character who is a seasoned trainer and a 17-year-old Rocket executive cat-girl with 200+ Pokémon, hyper-sharp senses and some dark, generic sob story past involving genetic engineering, magical amulets and signing a contract with the unholy lovechild of Espurr and Sylveon.
If you may have any concerns that your character may be a Sue or a Stu, here are a simple test or two.
Continuity matters - "I could have sworn that table was on the left side five seconds ago."
When you write an RP post, you are writing a story in collaboration with several other people. As such it is extremely important to be mindful of your surroundings and of the actions of other characters to keep a solid, flowing continuity and avoid general confusion. Simply put: we don't want rooms spontaneously shifting into forests or characters randomly shifting appearance/locations because someone got too lazy to read other people's posts.
Grammar and spelling also matter- "Whait oh no where id isotop? Uit has bin stoled!"
This should go without saying - but in story-format RPing, spelling and grammar matter a great deal. This means we expect you to go over your posts, format them properly (no one likes a wall of text), spell-check them and actually make them readable without other people having to bust out a Rosetta stone.
This thread is a good resource for all things grammar/spelling related in RP, and we strongly recommend you read it.
Violence in RP- "And then he ran into my knife! He ran into my knife TEN TIMES!"
Most settings in which RPs may occur tend to involve fights, battles and other altercations. While there isn't an exact limit on the amount of horrible grotesque things that can happen in an RP - "on-screen" violence is not everyone's cup of tea. Therefore, we ask that:
- Exceedingly violent posts must be tagged - either in the thread title or the post itself. That way, people who do not wish to read exceedingly violent content (or who shouldn't) are not caught by surprise.
- No senseless bloodbaths - Violence must make sense within the setting. No eviscerating the entire population of a small village and feasting on their entrails in graphic detail simply for the sake of it, please
This looks relay fun so lets see if we can get this added
So To Start Lets Use This Scenario
Plot: Many years after the events of the Pokemon D/P/Plat games, the Sinnoh region has become much more technologically advanced, using new Nuclear Reactors and train lines to travel from city to city. Though with these advancements come dangerous chances, and after many years these chances catch up to the region. One day a Mysterious figure broke into the plant and set off the reactor, blowing away part of the region [exact towns and routs to be announced soon] and radiating the rest of the region. This RP takes place about a year afterwards, the radiation in most parts are low enough that travel and exploration through the area is safe, but keeping to interiors is best.
The RP will be more about survival, classic survival, with scavenging and what not. We will start as separate Pokemon and through the RP we will meet up and form a tribe like group to survive. Along the way we will meet bandit groups and have difficulties, but this is, for the most part, a more causal RP.
Rules:
~All basic RP rules apply: Grammar, no 'Sues' character, be polite, etc....
~No Legendary pokemon, BUT you may ask about Mythical pokemon [Shaymin, Celebi] as long as you have fair moveset to them This should go without saying given what the rules say about legendaries.
~Pokemon will have 6 moves for the RP, to give a bit more freedom since we will not have trainers or items to change moves out, on that note...
~We will not be 'leveling' during the RP, therefore whichever pokemon, pokemon evolution stage, and/or forme you choose you will have to stick with [unless it is changed by a move like cherrim]
~Keep an eye on the rules, as if something comes up in the RP that causes issues or misunderstanding I may have to add rules
To Join Just Reply To This Thread With the Following
~Name:
~Gender:
~Level: [mostly so i know your moves are legal, stay between 30-50]
~Shiny?:
~Pokemon Species: [the exact stage of evolution, also what forme you are if needed]
~Moveset: [6 moves that work with the level you are, Also Eggmoves, TM/HM, and tutor moves are all fine]
~Personality: [no, not the generic one pokemon gives, give a bit of detail]
~History: [doesn't have to be an essay, honestly I jsut wanna know what you were doing before the destruction and what you were doing during the first year of the 'Fallout']
