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guide:roleplaying [2018/01/14 11:17] – [Pacing] wesguide:roleplaying [2018/01/14 15:45] – [Roleplaying] wes
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 Once you're in a plot, start role-playing! If it's a single-post plot you can start right away (or as soon as it makes sense in the plot). If it's a [[#joint_posting|Joint Post]] plot, then find out when the next chat session is (most plots have a scheduling thread in their forum). Once you're in a plot, start role-playing! If it's a single-post plot you can start right away (or as soon as it makes sense in the plot). If it's a [[#joint_posting|Joint Post]] plot, then find out when the next chat session is (most plots have a scheduling thread in their forum).
  
 +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't matter how long you've been a site member: what matters is what you're doing.
 ===== Basic Rules ===== ===== Basic Rules =====
   - 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.
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 ===== Scene ===== ===== Scene =====
-The scene is where the focus and action of the Joint Post takes place, usually, in a space where all the characters (and thus, an imaginary observer) can interact with one another. It is considered rude to post actions and speech which occur outside of the scene, because A) It disrupts the scene and B) characters can't react to it. A scene is generally a room or area, such as a ship's bridge or a clearing in a forest; it is generally specified at the start of a roleplay (eg; ON: "YSS Sakura Wardroom").+The scene is where the focus and action of the Joint Post takes place, usually, in a space where all the characters (and thus, an imaginary observer) can interact with one another. It is considered rude to post actions and speech which occur outside of the scene, because
  
-It is both the players and the GM's responsibility to keep things within a unifed scene. Think of the roleplay as an interactive movie. You have one camera--the reader. You can skip between scenes if it makes sense, but DO NOT just throw everything together, or things will get horribly confusing.+  - It disrupts the scene and 
 +  - Characters can't react to it. 
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 +A scene is generally a room or area, such as a ship's bridge or a clearing in a forest; it is generally specified at the start of a roleplay (eg; ON: "YSS Sakura Wardroom"). 
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 +It is both the players and the GM's responsibility to keep things within a unified scene. Think of the roleplay as an interactive movie. You have one camera--the reader. You can skip between scenes if it makes sense, but DO NOT just throw everything together, or things will get horribly confusing.
  
 Players who post out-of-scene might have their posts removed from the edited transcript.  Players who post out-of-scene might have their posts removed from the edited transcript. 

guide/roleplaying.txt · Last modified: 2024/02/10 13:32 by wes