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Star Army is a community, so get the most out of this site by being proactive; get (and stay) involved. Make friends of your fellow roleplayers by showing them you're fun to write with! It doesn' | Star Army is a community, so get the most out of this site by being proactive; get (and stay) involved. Make friends of your fellow roleplayers by showing them you're fun to write with! It doesn' | ||
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===== Basic Rules ===== | ===== Basic Rules ===== | ||
+ | - **In Star Army RPs, we usually write in third-person past tense**, the way most novels do. For example: //A scowl of disgust appeared on Sayuri' | ||
- Posts on Star Army, in general, do not have a word count, meaning they can be as long or as short as you need them to be. | - Posts on Star Army, in general, do not have a word count, meaning they can be as long or as short as you need them to be. | ||
- Game Masters and thread OPs may make exceptions to this based on their preferences, | - Game Masters and thread OPs may make exceptions to this based on their preferences, | ||
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- Do not control other people' | - Do not control other people' | ||
- Example: You can shoot //at// them, but you can't just //shoot// them, unless you're the GM. | - Example: You can shoot //at// them, but you can't just //shoot// them, unless you're the GM. | ||
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+ | ===== Play by Post Roleplaying ===== | ||
+ | **Star Army** is a play-by-post roleplaying community, which means we operate by posting text on the forum. Unlike tabletop roleplaying games, Star Army is mostly just writing and does not use complex game mechanics (math). Most story plots have a **Game Master** (GM) assigned whose job is to guide the story, describe the setting, and write the actions of background characters (NPCs). In the Open Roleplay forum, the creator of the RP thread may act as a GM. | ||
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+ | See also: [[guide: | ||
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+ | ===== Plots & Subforums ===== | ||
+ | Most RP occurs in ongoing RP plots. After their second RP thread starts, they can get their own subforum. A //plot// in this case refers to an ongoing role playing story and its group of players. In the Star Army RP, these are often based on starships. | ||
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+ | See: [[guide: | ||
===== Format and Use of Forum Code ===== | ===== Format and Use of Forum Code ===== | ||
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* OOC threads | * OOC threads | ||
* Conversations (sometimes called PMs) | * Conversations (sometimes called PMs) | ||
- | * The [[https:// | + | * Discord |
===== Conflicts ===== | ===== Conflicts ===== | ||
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* John: "Luca, turn the game console off right now. Cut the power!" | * John: "Luca, turn the game console off right now. Cut the power!" | ||
- | **A:** Only the GM of a plot is okay with it. | + | **A:** Only if the GM of a plot is okay with it. |
===== Keeping Up ===== | ===== Keeping Up ===== |