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Can someone tell us how to roleplay,because we cant

Wulaishen
11-06-2004, 19:00
Wulaishen cannot roleplay(were decent,but we wanna roleplay as good as....Say,Fedral Union,or the Adelaide Islands,or....Sarzonia
Huzen Hagen
11-06-2004, 19:02
theres a role play university but there isnt really much to it.
Sarzonia
11-06-2004, 19:06
Wulaishen cannot roleplay(were decent,but we wanna roleplay as good as....Say,Fedral Union,or the Adelaide Islands,or....Sarzonia

[OOC: The stickies at the top of this forum have a wealth of knowledge about how to RP. For anyone who is new to role playing in general, there are some invaluable primers here about what to do (and the excellent guide by Automagfreek on what NOT to do). For someone who is familiar with roleplaying, they give you a good idea on what kind of protocols, conventions, etc. are prevalent in NS.

The best advice I can give you besides looking at those is to watch experienced roleplayers and see what they do. Roleplaying here in NS is basically telling a story. Stories of any kind revolve around character development, using the liberal definition of "character" as including the characteristics of your own country. They also center on plot. With regard to plot, you see the word "godmodding" all the time. That refers to people who do things like unrealistically-sized military forces, typing what happens to another roleplayer's forces, etc. Keep an eye on realism and letting the roleplayer determine what happened to his own forces, and that will help.

Um, I thank you for mentioning me, but I've only been roleplaying here at NS for less than three months. I'd hardly consider myself to be one of the players to be looked up to. :oops:]