Roleplay Guidelines

by **Luci** Thu Jan 12, 2017 9:14 pm

RP GUIDELINES, MUST READ BEFORE POSTING IN ANY IN-CHARACTER THREAD. REPLIES NOT FOLLOWING THESE RULES MAY BE IGNORED BY OTHER RPERS AND WILL BE DELETED IF REQUESTED BY THE THREAD STARTER.

Admin wrote:
Wanderers of the Mist has strict quality standards, and while we won't turn away newbies to role-playing, you're expected to conform to basic etiquette and ideally, improve as you RP with other people. Specific guidelines are to be followed in any in-character thread.

All in-character replies should be paragraph-format. Following textbook grammar rules isn't necessary; there are always exceptions for stylistic effect and individuality, but your writing needs to at least be easy to understand for everyone reading it.
On this note, all in-character posts should be in past tense and third person: you are writing a character, not yourself. Keep your posts at least half of the length of the reply before them as a basic rule, and make sure you give enough information that the next poster has something to work with.
Don't reply back and forth with only one person in public threads -- give everyone else a chance to post too, they might have good ideas. For heavy character-building or focused RP, start a private RP with the relevant people in the appropriate section.
Formal, admin-approved threads will have an out-of character thread to match them; any out-of character discussion up to and including plotting minor storylines should take place in these (With the exception of things that will be a surprise to others. It's fine to keep secrets, but if it's not been publicly discussed and/or screenshots of the plotting posted, you can't complain if it doesn't go exactly your way. Godmodding will not be tolerated even within these bounds.)
If you have a problem with another user, PM them to talk it out. Personal disagreements shouldn't bleed over into RP, and if a moderator has to step in, both of your characters will be shut out from that thread at the very least.
Before your character is approved, you'll have to take a minor test over PM, administered by a moderator, to make sure you can work with other people in this format. If you fail, you won't be banned, just given a bit more time to read through the rules and learn how to RP in this format.

More rules may be added if necessary, and if so they'll be announced on the main page as well. We aren't nearly as strict as we seem, promise ~