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Post by Haruki on Oct 4, 2013 1:39:11 GMT
Hey guys. So this is a regularly brought up subject on other forums, but I don't see anything posted here. There's lots of times that I find myself Rping with someone and our styles clash. I'm more thorough in my descriptions and dialogue, while my partner is more straight-forward and action-based. This raises the question: with so many different styles and nuances to roleplaying, what is the "best"? Which do most people prefer? Am I being overbearing and tedious or is the fast-paced roleplayer being a cold fish?
Now there's good things to be said about both styles. Paragraph roleplay really puts the reader in the scene, breathes life into characters, and attaches emotions to a screen of pixels. One-liners move fast enough to be accurate to the game's night/day/weather cycles. More actions happen. Less effort and thought is required for both reader and writer.
So which do you prefer? Fast-paced, paragraph, or somewhere in between?
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Sambari
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Post by Sambari on Oct 4, 2013 2:20:31 GMT
I don't see it as that there is a 'best' way to roleplay. My posts usually tend to vary depending on the situation. If my character is locked out of their house and it's cold outside, there's probably gonna be like two or three paragraphs of them wandering around trying to find a way inside their cozy home, but if all my character is doing is drinking some water, it'll probably be a one-liner. xD
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CadyD16
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Post by CadyD16 on Oct 4, 2013 2:30:24 GMT
A long time ago, before I even joined IT, I roleplayed with people on Youtube. I made various accounts for it. But, of course, if I ever looked back on it now, I'd visibly cringe. I probably wouldn't even make it through all the stuff I wrote because I'd be too embarrassed and I'd want too much to just stab myself. XD It's the same with all the literature I wrote that wasn't RP. The stuff I wrote before I even turned ten, before the concept of RP ever even existed in my mind. But to say it simply, I didn't always paragraph roleplay. And that's my confession. :U But when I got IT and joined my first RP on there with a new friend of mine and a few other people, I was getting ready to post something hugely 'straight-forward and fast-paced', but my friend came out with this amazing paragraph with all this punctuation and grammar and I was absolutely blown away. So, contrary to what some people on here do (and not wanting our RP styles to clash too badly), I tried to fit in with the style and write a paragraph. I was crap at it at first, but no one ever said anything to me about how bad I was at it. And, now, I won't deny the fact that I really started to get the hang of it. I was getting good at it. And now I wouldn't want it any other way. I like paragraph RP best because it allows me to flex my writing muscles a bit, and I do write outside of the game and the forum. Like, stories conjured up without a partner. I also happen to get sucked into a story more if it's paragraph RP, simply because it's like you're reading and contributing to a very well-written book. The characters feel more alive that way! :3
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Temporal
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Post by Temporal on Oct 4, 2013 3:22:51 GMT
Hm, this is a very interesting subject.
I personally prefer roleplaying in either paragraphs or somewhere as close as possible to it, as I'm pretty descriptive when I type and I like to develop meaningful characters and plots in the process of the roleplay, even though it might be a bit more time and energy consuming. I find the challenge of contributing more effort into posts in a roleplay to be very entertaining, and I feel it dishes out more excitement and imagination as to what the roleplayers will type up next. Whereas, waiting for someone to type up something that consists of only a couple words isn't very exciting, in my own opinion. It also is very helpful to have more content to reply to, as well, and although some might claim it to be "boring" or "too much work", or if they say "it's a roleplay, not a school project", it develops the storyline a heck'uva lot more than just a simple "The wolf sat down". It doesn't take too much trouble to let a little bit of creativity flow, right?
However, I don't have any bones to pick with fast-paced roleplays, either. I understand that some people might just want to roleplay and they don't want to wait a good fifteen minutes for their buddy to type up a wall of text and then have to think up something to post on their own, or they think that they might not be experienced enough. And I'll admit, like Cady, I never used to type up groups of text. Heck, when I first started out, I was the person who used asterisks and whatnot, but I slowly developed from that to one-liners, and one-liners to what kind of roleplayer I am now.
Whatever the reason, I just prefer to roleplay in paragraphs. It makes me feel as though I've been put in my character's shoes, and it gives me a ton of imagination as to what the characters are experiencing as well. Not to mention, it develops memorable plots and characters that actually have meaning to be such. That's just my personal opinion, though, and I don't expect to force it upon anyone else. owo
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Post by SuperNoodlePot on Oct 4, 2013 15:05:39 GMT
My posts can vary as you well know depending on what is going on and what my partners saying I don't think their is a 'best' way to rp so to speak but hey what works for whoever ya know?
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Post by Abomine on Oct 4, 2013 16:36:27 GMT
I honestly don't think there's a "best" way to rp, just as long as the writing is legible.
I don't what category this would be in (would it count as paragraph-style?), but this is how I typically "roleplay".
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The russet doe tiptoed to the riverside, wincing as her unborn fawns kicked in her swollen womb. "It's almost time," she thought as she drank deeply from the icy water. "I'll need to find a thicket to give birth in soon, but every one I've found has already been claimed by a doe. If things get really bad, I may have to birth in a bush."
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Typically, I don't type very long paragraphs because I'm a slow typer, and I don't want to have the other player wondering if I walked away from my laptop right in the middle of the rp.
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Post by Haruki on Oct 5, 2013 5:45:58 GMT
So the consensus so far is that there is no "best" way to roleplay, but the people who have posted prefer paragraph roleplay (yes, Abomine, that totally counts XD) when the situation permits.
Then I pose this question: Is this consensus skewed because it is uncommon for single-line (or "illiterate") roleplayers to browse the website? Or is this really a game-wide generalization?
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Abomine
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Post by Abomine on Oct 5, 2013 16:48:37 GMT
Then I pose this question: Is this consensus skewed because it is uncommon for single-line (or "illiterate") roleplayers to browse the website? Or is this really a game-wide generalization? Don'thatemeI'mjustasking That would be my guess. I noticed this sort of thing on FeralHeart, too.
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Post by Haruki on Oct 7, 2013 8:58:54 GMT
Okay, cool. So it's not just me being prejudice. >.>
Why do we call it "literate" or "illiterate," anyway? Literacy is comprehension of text and ability to produce it. *sits down* is text. Maybe we should call it...
Illwriterite?
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Post by CloudFish on Oct 7, 2013 18:22:28 GMT
i think it depends really on age and experience at this point. like a lot of you have said already-- you didnt always roleplay like you did. you either started out with one liners or the asterisks and slowly you met up with others who had already learned of the paragraph roleplaying. its something that is caught on to and you build upon.
for these users who have yet to run into that thing, i do not believe ignoring them or keeping the two separate is always good. which is why i try to include everyone in a rp that just starts up. just because they roleplay one way doesnt mean they cant roleplay another way. if theyre willing its easy to get them to catch on.
a friend of mine we plucked from the noob pile, and they roleplayed with the asterisks and it was short. we told them what kind of rp we did, showed them an example and they pretty well caught on and now i wouldn't be able to tell any different.
that being said both ways have their advantages and their key audience. the shorter being used by the younger kids who dont have that great a grasp on grammar, sentence structure, or that wide a vocabulary while the longer is used by those who have been around to experience something different. its not literate or nonliterate. its just two different styles for two different sets of people
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Reaper
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Post by Reaper on Oct 10, 2013 8:45:56 GMT
I personally prefer one liners for some things. Like when I make a secretive characters. It's harder to deal with meta-gamers when they can read what your character is doing. I do prefer paragraph roleplaying for more... friendly roleplays or roleplays with really good RPers who won't see past my character's lies and whatnot.
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Post by Adeen on Oct 19, 2013 7:18:49 GMT
This is why I only RP when all the normal folk are sleeping and I can go creeping all in my peace.
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Post by ~Paradise~ on Nov 13, 2013 2:24:30 GMT
I prefer Paragraph Rping because if i really think about it, I can come up with something amazing that everyone just looks at me and said, "WOW! How long did it take you to learn rping so well?" I didn't really "learn" how to rp, but as cloud said, I was playing FH when I was 9 (If there IS an age limit on FH I didn't know about it xD)[ I did Liners, for example: "Drinks water" And NOW I do paragraph rping, so from"Drinks water" comes: She pads down to the side of the lake feeling the moist under her paws. The sense of water is getting closer. She bends down to get a nice drink of water lapping it. As she is lapping the water, she perks her ears once in a while hearing big footsteps coming closer… and closer. 'Could it be a Human?' She thought to herself lifting her head and looking left to right like a deer protecting her children from the worst danger you could ever imagine.
Lol I seriously improved right? xD SO that's how I Rp with the Paragraph Rp ers. But when someone is like "Walks to den" then I just do Liners because what's the use if they can't even have the patience to read it? or even understand it? ._./font]
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Post by loolie on Nov 13, 2013 3:02:46 GMT
(these are my opinions.) Anything is okay for me but these two things;
- Extremely short, no details at all. ex; "-looks up-" - Wolfspeaking, or using the thesaurus to the max. "The canis lupus' digits huddled close, his lobes erect as the brujo remain alert."
So pretty much too unintelligent, and too smart. For me to like your RPing, you need to be in the middle, like what you'd see in a novel or something. this is also a personal peeve of mine, but i don't like 1st person RPing; just my opinion.
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Post by faintsilhouette on Nov 13, 2013 21:17:01 GMT
I prefer to RP with paragraphs, especially in smaller groups of people or one on ones. I'll deal with short posts, I do it all the time. However, I must say that one of the main reasons I don't like short posts is that even if you excuse the "lack of something to work with" (and while this is NOT true for everyone,) I've noticed a LOT of the players who cling to this short-style don't know how to read between the lines and I end up having to practically spell out the obvious for them for EVERYTHING and I /hate/ having to do that. It takes the fun out of trying to figure something out/letting someone else figure something out. I'm not very cryptic but I won't spoon feed the answers either.
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Post by Darkest Zekrom on Nov 15, 2013 8:55:58 GMT
My god, I have finally found others like me. .-.
With that being said, I also actually started playing on FH when i was, what, either like 9 or 10. And if I actually re-read all of my posts, I'd visibly cringe, or stab myself like others. Not that one-liners are bad, it's just.. I could've done SO much better. ewe Ah yes, the concept of dividing two different styles. This, really, should not happen. Or, atleast, for me, anyways. Because it tends to lower the self esteem, ALOT, to where people will post, and they'll say like "Sorry for HORRIBLE POOOOST </3" Due to others looking down on them, and even downright disregarding them entirely, even though they where actually pretty good... It's just sad. So, incredibly sad.
As for what I try to do about this.. problem on FH, I decided it'd be cool if I where a literate AC (AC = Adoption center), due to noticing that newer or "Illiterate" people tend to be pups or wanting to adopt. So I created a persona of it, with a personality and all, (Basicly just a gender-bent version of Isshin xD), and making it just a place for RP even if you're just a random person. As it turns out- It actually succeeded in its purpous - Showing how to be literate, in a friendlier way without exactly pushing it against them to "Learn it or GTFO". They actually learn quite fast since they seem to come back everyday.
The point of that, was to actually prove that Roleplaying like that - even by being something "Stupid" which has evidently caused people to block me, calling me an "Illit noob" without even watching me RP - tends to provide a friendly atmosphere of which encourages to help with their grammar and RP styles.
I did good? xD
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Post by faintsilhouette on Nov 15, 2013 13:30:27 GMT
My god, I have finally found others like me. .-. With that being said, I also actually started playing on FH when i was, what, either like 9 or 10. And if I actually re-read all of my posts, I'd visibly cringe, or stab myself like others. Not that one-liners are bad, it's just.. I could've done SO much better. ewe Ah yes, the concept of dividing two different styles. This, really, should not happen. Or, atleast, for me, anyways. Because it tends to lower the self esteem, ALOT, to where people will post, and they'll say like "Sorry for HORRIBLE POOOOST </3" Due to others looking down on them, and even downright disregarding them entirely, even though they where actually pretty good... It's just sad. So, incredibly sad. This! This is just terrible. I've had this is happen to me so many times. I've actually had people end up ending the RP abruptly after apologizing after the first two or three posts about how "terrible" they are at RPing when I told them they write just fine, and they do! And though I don't partake in groups much over in FH, I've had people tell me they are flat out terrified about getting kicked from a group. Even in one on one's it seems like once I make the first post, people suddenly get extremely apologetic and panic. Thankfully not all of them abandon ship right away. Some of them stick around and then tell me "how really nice I am" because I'm still RPing with them. My behavior of sticking to my word and being a decent person shouldn't be considered "really nice." It ought to be what everyone else is doing rather than acting like a bunch of uptight....yeah I'll just end my rant here. >_>; But you get the idea. It is sad. Really sad. :/
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