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Date Posted：12/23/2008 10:46 AMCopy HTML
RPing Guidelines
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This RPing Help page was originally taken from http://www.beqanna.com/versioneleven/rphelp.php, and written by Cassi. I took it from the rpg Reflections.
1.) Describe! I cannot stress this enough.
You should tell the colors, you should describe your horse (breed,
color, history, etc) and you should set a scene. Is it rainy, sunny, or
stormy? And thoughts! Thoughts are a good thing. We do not play
customary horses; many of the horses in this role-playing world are
smarter than many people. They can ponder death, life, and all that
stuff. And best of all, you can go on for hours talking about this
stuff. Also, your horse never just – ‘walks into the land’. Write
something like – The equine figure stepped lightly into the barren
lithosphere as if the topsoil had been overlaid with blown glass, her
onyx colored hooves seemed to barely leave a crescent into the damp
topsoil. That’s still pretty bad, but heck, it’s an example.
2.) Spelling and grammar!
A mistake here and there is okay but please, don’t misspell every other
word. It looks really tacky. Also, don’t use apostrophes unless they’re
needed, it g’t’s r’ally ‘nnoying, and don’t use Internet slang, like
lol and u when posting. Get your and you’re right – you’re means you
are, as in, you’re a horse, and your is possession of something, as in,
that is your computer.
3.) Words used in right context.
This is a problem I see a lot. Horse’s hooves are not sharp; they are
often worn from trotting on rocks and such. Thus, horses should not
have flints, talons, claws, daggers, or anything that implies to
something sharp used as a word for hooves. Horse’s legs cannot be
pillars, pistons, boughs, etc. Horse’s teeth are not sharp, thus they
cannot be razors. Ooids is not a word, orbis is not a word, and horse’s
eyes are not lanterns, headlights, lamps, or pools. You can use the
aforesaid like so – her eyes were as deep as pools, or whatever, but
don’t just say – her pools looked around. A horse’s head is not always
its zenith, apex, etc, because what if it drops its head? Doesn’t work
then. A horse’s nostrils are not nadirs; a nadir is the lowest point of
something. A horse’s lips are not labia, the labia is part of a
female’s, err, lower region. Terra is a rocky part of the moon, only if
you are speaking Latin does it mean the ground we walk on, otherwise
use terra firma, which is the ground we walk upon. Mascu is not a word,
virile is an adjective, masculine is an adjective, and equine is an
adjective. Bruja means witch, but in Spanish. Fatale by itself is not a
word. Femme fatale is a word, as is femme. A harlot is a very
*friendly* person, don’t use it unless you want to degrade your horse,
and don’t use pregnant dog or bytch, its tacky slang. Actually, don't
swear at all in a post, it looks tacky (there are some exceptions,
sometimes the char you play, or the way you play it, can hold the
cussing fine). A carcass usually means a dead body; don’t use it to
describe your horse’s figure. A bodice is a corset, and horses don’t
wear corsets. Also, don’t say ‘the onyx mare’. Your horse is not made
of onyx, or charcoal, or ash, or whatever. Your horse is onyx
hued/colored/tinted/whatever.
4.) Don’t use the same words over and over.
Don’t use the same words over and over. Don’t use the same words over
and over. Don’t use the same words over and over. Don’t use the same
words over and over. Don’t use the same words over and over. Don’t use
the same words over and over. Get it?
5.) If fighting, please don't say that your horse grasps some part of their foe.
Horse’s teeth can grip for maybe ten seconds, probably not more then
that. You cannot strangle a horse by going for it’s jugular vein. Okay?
No horse, unless it has been heavily drugged or something, is going to
stand there and let you masticate upon its throat. Plus, the area is
heavily protected by muscle and fat, you’d have to gnaw through that
first. As I said before, horse’s hooves are not deadly sharp. They
hardly draw blood, even though they can kick like all hell. Why’s this?
Because they’re blunt, they cannot slice the other horse’s neck open,
or crap like that. You also cannot grasp the skin of the horse’s nose,
there’s a tiny bit of skin to grab onto, and horse’s cannot aim that
well.
6.) Using crazy, unfamiliar words do not make someone a good role-player.
Nor do long, rambling posts. Correct spelling, word treatment, and
elegance make a superior role-player, and if you have these, your posts
are more often than not extended, because you are so fine at
describing. We have no magic words, so don’t ask people for ‘word
lists’ and crap, because we don’t have them. We don’t care if you use
the word legs as long as you don’t say ‘her legs brought the gamine
into the terrain’, you’d be better off saying ‘her lanky appendages
churned against the balling snow in a exhorting effort to carry the
lithe frame of the ash colored vixen into the terrain which she viewed
with a slightly terrified espying.’
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