Thats not unpopular, no one's perfect.

really?

Rule63 has special snowflake sydrome appearantly if he's realy thinking that.

As long as things are organized in a reasonable way, an RP should go off without a hitch. As mentioned earlier, there are a lot of ways to do it wrong, but there are also a lot of ways to do it correctly. -=Personally, these are the symbols juicyholes prefers to use to indicate anything other than dialogue=-. The symbols one uses for text other than dialogue makes no difference to me, as long as people use SOMETHING. I also don't find it necessary to to use quotation marks around dialogue, or to italicize narration, because narration can just as easily take place within the -= =- symbols. The way I do it is just a way of keeping it simple while organized and easy to understand. If you like to get more complicated, that's fine too, so long as it's not SO convoluted that it confuses your partner. Then again, if the person is actually getting confused by the way you organize your entries, they miiiight have some complications that no amount of explanation could rectify. Also, I'm not looking at my original list, but I DO find it necessary to use parentheses when talking out of character for whatever reason. Some people like to ((use double)) parentheses, I just use (single) parentheses. I don't believe it makes a huge difference either way. Keep the good discussion going! Good work, guys.

Be sure to use proper pronouns, if you are RPing with someone use "i suck your cock" not "i suck his cock". You'd be surprised how many times i have run into this problem, really kills the mood for me.

Wow people just love to be assholes on this site too. XD

It's much easier to do Narrations with = = than in italics, also no one has said anything about using anything for suggestions/ideas, I suggested using these. ---> > <

Jeez, all the fucking signs?! Just use anything out of context INCLUDING SUGGESTIONS with these ()

It's much easier to have sex with a prostitute without a condom too, it's still not the best idea. Put effort in get effort out. Hopefully.

Those are for notes, which is different from a suggestions. Like if someone says something that was part of the story early and they got it wrong or mixed something up and you just need to point it out. For example: An NPC told the players it was downstairs turn left and it's the 2nd door on the right. But a player got it mixed up and says turn right and it's 2nd door on the left. You would point it out by adding in (by the way the guy said turn left and it's the 2nd door on the right.) with ( ) for the note.

Suggestions would be used if you ask a very complex question that might take the player a while to think of an answer for, you can suggestion possible options for them that you already have a response too. And it can help move things along when people get writer's block.

Maybe thats just me but why dont just play however the fuck you want..?

If your partner does not understand your narration he will tell you and then you can change it..and if its that freaking obvious she/he is probably an idiot and should be put down for good.

At the end of the day we are all special snowflakes who just want to be banged like mad.

We all wish to be fucked.

the ways some people do their RPing is very disorganized and makes it more of a chore to decipher (kind of like trying to read chicken scratch written by hand). Examples of this are when people don't enclose their actions or character/environment descriptions/thoughts/feelings/etc to separate them from dialogue. Also poor spelling/grammar, too many emoticons, abbreviations... We could probably fill volumes with examples of the faux pas made by inexperienced or lazy RPers. And yes, you are right about having to go back and ask what the person meant. One should really look at their writing in an RP as if they were writing a work of fiction. A good work of fiction should stand alone, and speak for itself, without the reader having to go back and ask the author what he was actually writing about. That wouldn't make for a very good story would it. If a man swings a sword, let him swing a sword. Good descriptive writing is preferred, but when in doubt, Keep It Simple Stupid. Lol.

So really, the problem is one of efficiency, and perhaps more important in principle, standards.

This has more to do along non-sexual line of RP.

i actually meant that the "Should we use: - or = " debate is freaking stupid..



Second that! You can have the most standard character in existence! But if you do it well people will remember him.

Also, if a guy doesnt say he's bi, or gay, don't help yourself to anything up his butt :p. Turn off for me xP

LOL, yeah. I have never done any RPing before, but I think that is a big don't. No surprise butt sex. DX