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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).
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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't matter how long you've been a site member: what matters is what you're doing.
  
 ===== 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's face as she watched the lizard creatures eagerly gnawing on the abandoned corpses.//
   - 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, but it's their duty to make it clear at the start of the RP.     - Game Masters and thread OPs may make exceptions to this based on their preferences, but it's their duty to make it clear at the start of the RP.
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     - Do not control other people's characters or "auto" them without permission.     - Do not control other people's characters or "auto" them without permission.
     - 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.
-  - Please post in third-person, past tense, like a novel. "Andrew reached for his weapon."+ 
 +===== 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:game master]] 
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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.  Before you make your character, if possible, do a little background reading on the role-play and get an idea of which plot you want to join. 
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 +See: [[guide:active_plots]]
  
 ===== Format and Use of Forum Code ===== ===== Format and Use of Forum Code =====
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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 
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 +  - 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").
  
-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 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

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