Grimm's School of Roleplaying

[JudgeGrimm]

I have begun to notice a slight lack of RP skill here in the forum. I mean no offense by this whatsoever, it is merely a statement to make people aware of such a thing. Therefore I have decided to begin my own Roleplaying school thread to help people out.

A little background on me. I have been roleplaying for the past seven years and have become a member and created so many sites I don't want to bother counting them all. I began as the biggest no0b at sites such as Arda And Star Wars Hutt under the names of both General and Orcavius Maximus. However, over the course of more than several dozen other sites, my skill as an RPer has increased dramatically. So much, in fact, that I believe I should take the responsibility of helping other people to improve their own skills as Roleplayers so that they may also enjoy intriguing and interesting stories as I do as a writer and Roleplayer all the time.

There is no sign-up, just merely post any questions you have and I shall post lessons every so often to help. ;D

[Rolling Thunder]

No as-such queries at t' moment, but a segment of advice from the RT/Makarova school of Roleplaying. Play roles you can convincingly and eloquently play. Do not attempt to play monsters, do not attempt to play superhumans, do not attempt to play hardened veterans or grizzled commandoes unless you are extremely certain you can do it. If in doubt, make your character less, rather than more awesome. Less awesome characters are more convincing, more elegant, more fun for everyone around you and less likely to cause certain moderators to snort derisively and troll-edit your post for their perverse amusement.

Basically, you must regard an RP like acting an impromptu play. You must create, conceive the actions, mannerism, character, morals and so on of an imaginary person and then convincingly portray them. An RP should not be done half-heartedly (for then you are spoiling it for everyone else), and it should be done convincingly. It should, like any piece of performance art, be done well, so everyone may enjoy it.