Post by Protégé on Dec 10, 2005 20:25:15 GMT -5
Here is a small paper I typed up to help RPers.
As I sit here in front of my computer and read topics, I notice large differences in the qualities of the RPers. Some people have posts that seem like novels compared to some other people's posts. I believe I speak for many when I say that it might annoy people when they have 3 or 4 paragraph posts, and yet someone else only posts 2 or 3 sentences. I asked Kalim, and he said, "Unless the person actually adresses everything I said effectively, it really annoys me." Very often, it is difficult for a person to adress everything in a short post. Of course, sometimes you don't have to adress everything, but I think we get the gist of what Kalim is saying. And I agree with him, it can be frustrating when you put a lot of hard work into a post and have to chop it up because of a reply.
That's what inspired me to type up this tipsheet on how to RP well.
Now, some of you may be reading this and wonder, "What is there to gain from RPing long posts? It just cuts into my time." Well, I can tell you one thing: if you post long and have really high quality posts, loads of people will want to RP with you. Also, you got to look at the advantage in fights. Speaking with Vidar the judgemaster, who is the ruling voice in the fights of a tournament, he says, "If a person is RPing with high quality posts, then I allow them a little more power within the restrictions of their class, and also I let them get away with more than someone with lesser quality." Now, I can think of loads of people who have said, "Why is it so difficult for me to find someone to RP with?" or "What do you mean I can't do that?". Here is your answer.
First, we got to understand what a good quality post is. Here is my definition, and other RPers agree with this: A 3-4 paragraph post, or 2 long paragraphs, that adress everything in the post(s) before, with plenty of detail, and good grammar and spelling. In a fight, a good quality post can be 1 paragraph long. Now that we have established what a good quality post is, we can get down to figuring out how to turn a 2-3 sentence post into a good one.
Some of you may be giving up already, thinking, "How am I susposed to make a post 3 or 4 paragraphs long?" Well, a lot of it is detail. If you pack in detail, you can easily make a nice long post. In my entrance topic, I even went as far as to mention the dust raised by Protégé's footsteps. When you put in a lot of detail, people take notice, and higher quality RPers will be happier with you. Also, if you put in detail, more ideas will come toyou, and you can put those in. Pack them all together and you got a fairly nice looking post. However, to make it, as the GMC commercials say, "professional grade", you got to add in the good spelling in grammar. I'm not talking pulling out a thesarus and using the most complicated words that come to mind, I'm just talking about checking your spelling, keeping correct verb tense, and having capital letters and apostraphes and stuff like that. And as a final note, read over your post once or twice. Look for areas where you can input detail, or typos, or spelling or grammar mistakes. Do all I've said, and I would be suprised if you don't have a really good post.
If you have any questions or comments, just post them here and I will answer.
As I sit here in front of my computer and read topics, I notice large differences in the qualities of the RPers. Some people have posts that seem like novels compared to some other people's posts. I believe I speak for many when I say that it might annoy people when they have 3 or 4 paragraph posts, and yet someone else only posts 2 or 3 sentences. I asked Kalim, and he said, "Unless the person actually adresses everything I said effectively, it really annoys me." Very often, it is difficult for a person to adress everything in a short post. Of course, sometimes you don't have to adress everything, but I think we get the gist of what Kalim is saying. And I agree with him, it can be frustrating when you put a lot of hard work into a post and have to chop it up because of a reply.
That's what inspired me to type up this tipsheet on how to RP well.
Now, some of you may be reading this and wonder, "What is there to gain from RPing long posts? It just cuts into my time." Well, I can tell you one thing: if you post long and have really high quality posts, loads of people will want to RP with you. Also, you got to look at the advantage in fights. Speaking with Vidar the judgemaster, who is the ruling voice in the fights of a tournament, he says, "If a person is RPing with high quality posts, then I allow them a little more power within the restrictions of their class, and also I let them get away with more than someone with lesser quality." Now, I can think of loads of people who have said, "Why is it so difficult for me to find someone to RP with?" or "What do you mean I can't do that?". Here is your answer.
First, we got to understand what a good quality post is. Here is my definition, and other RPers agree with this: A 3-4 paragraph post, or 2 long paragraphs, that adress everything in the post(s) before, with plenty of detail, and good grammar and spelling. In a fight, a good quality post can be 1 paragraph long. Now that we have established what a good quality post is, we can get down to figuring out how to turn a 2-3 sentence post into a good one.
Some of you may be giving up already, thinking, "How am I susposed to make a post 3 or 4 paragraphs long?" Well, a lot of it is detail. If you pack in detail, you can easily make a nice long post. In my entrance topic, I even went as far as to mention the dust raised by Protégé's footsteps. When you put in a lot of detail, people take notice, and higher quality RPers will be happier with you. Also, if you put in detail, more ideas will come toyou, and you can put those in. Pack them all together and you got a fairly nice looking post. However, to make it, as the GMC commercials say, "professional grade", you got to add in the good spelling in grammar. I'm not talking pulling out a thesarus and using the most complicated words that come to mind, I'm just talking about checking your spelling, keeping correct verb tense, and having capital letters and apostraphes and stuff like that. And as a final note, read over your post once or twice. Look for areas where you can input detail, or typos, or spelling or grammar mistakes. Do all I've said, and I would be suprised if you don't have a really good post.
If you have any questions or comments, just post them here and I will answer.
