Roleplay Vocab

[outlier]

Female: Feminine, Femme, Matron, Matriarch, Huntress, Maiden, Dame, Femora, Bruja, Dissona, Dove, Damsel, Harlot, Wench, Doe, Figurine, Seductress, Temptress, Angel

You might want to remove this, seeing as this is a kid friendly site; it means promiscuous woman

[Agarwaen]

uh what does wb mean?

[emgeal]

Welcome Back

[Agarwaen]

haha oh...thankz...

[WazzinGator]

I think people should try to use better grammar. Not just in rps. All the time. They want what they wright to be readable, after all!

So true!

[LeafTrill]

Would you call someone else controlling my 'minor' characters power-playing? They're part of the roleplay but not used as often as my main characters? For example, I have a minor character called AA. My roleplay partner uses AA in their post; powerplay or not? Just wanted an opinion ^^

It depends. PP is when people control other peoples' characters with out permission. If you're totally ok with your partner doing it, and, like the guide says, it's like a waiter or something, then it should be fine. If your partner does not have your permission, and it's a character that kinda helps the main characters accomlish whatever is in the plot, then yes, I would view that has PP. Hope this helped

I have a quick question. I'm thinking of making a role play myself. What would be a good number of characters for a role play?

[emgeal]

I have a quick question. I'm thinking of making a role play myself. What would be a good number of characters for a role play?

I'm not sure if you're asking how many characters overall in the RP or how many characters per person so I figured I'd answer both, though it does depend a lot on the level of the RP.

In general you want enough characters to forward the plot, but not so many that it gets bogged down. I've seen successful RPs that have ten characters, but similarly well played ones that only had two. Two is definitely the minimum for a traditional RP. If you're trying to decide how many you ought to have before you start you should figure out the first thing that's going to happen. If all the characters are meeting up somewhere then you can start it before anyone joins and as each person joins they can simply post.

If you were referring to how many characters per person I'd say absolutely no more then three for the start of the RP. If it's a very literate RP then it will take them too long to post with more then three, and if it's a not so literate RP then people will get confused on which character is doing what. I prefer to start with two and then after everyone's introduced and the plot is moving forward they can add more if they'd like. Many people can handle more then two characters at a time, but usually once you get over three some of the characters start getting neglected.

[LeafTrill]

I have a quick question. I'm thinking of making a role play myself. What would be a good number of characters for a role play?

I'm not sure if you're asking how many characters overall in the RP or how many characters per person so I figured I'd answer both, though it does depend a lot on the level of the RP.

In general you want enough characters to forward the plot, but not so many that it gets bogged down. I've seen successful RPs that have ten characters, but similarly well played ones that only had two. Two is definitely the minimum for a traditional RP. If you're trying to decide how many you ought to have before you start you should figure out the first thing that's going to happen. If all the characters are meeting up somewhere then you can start it before anyone joins and as each person joins they can simply post.

If you were referring to how many characters per person I'd say absolutely no more then three for the start of the RP. If it's a very literate RP then it will take them too long to post with more then three, and if it's a not so literate RP then people will get confused on which character is doing what. I prefer to start with two and then after everyone's introduced and the plot is moving forward they can add more if they'd like. Many people can handle more then two characters at a time, but usually once you get over three some of the characters start getting neglected.

Thanks so much. I was asking how many characters overall, but I should have made myself clearer. Thanks again for answering my question

[Tarn]

sorry if this is stupid but what does ((WB)) or ((BBL)) mean?

[emgeal]

WB : Welcome Back and BBL: Be Back Later

In the future if you don't know what something means try searching it in Google (or another web search) with the words "Chat speak". It almost always will bring up what you're looking for.