[Guide] Roleplaying in Detail

Talking is easy enough, but presenting emotes clearly and effectively is a great way of showing your RP ability. Emotes are not about big words or complicated sentence structure, their about imagination and your characters actions. Make sure you have a good grasp of the English language before placing these words in a sentence for it may not make sense.

Visual examination

Words: look, glance, attention, gaze, eye, peek, notice, inspect, stare, view, squint, watch and observing.

Examples:

/me looks at Jared.
/me glances at Jared.
/me peeks at Jared.
/me gives his undivided attention to Jared.
/me drags his gaze from Jared to Alex.
/me slowly runs his glare over Jared, eyeing him head to toe.
/me observes Jared closely, watching his every movement.
/me darts his glance at Jared.

Movement

Words: walks, strides, struts, glides, navigates, advances, shuffles, stumbles, clambers, drifts, ingresses and sways.

Examples:

/me walks over to Jared.
/me kicks his legs into motion, striding across the road.
/me struts down the sidewalk.
/me advances his hand toward the bottle of Miller.
/me shuffles his weight across the chair to Jared.
/me drifts past Jared.
/me navigates his glance up and down the street.
/me ‘s attention glides across the group.

Happy

Words: buoyant, ecstatic, joyous, light hearted, lively, content, perky, thrilled and pleased.
/me nods at Jared, content with the decision.

/me is clearly pleased with Jared.
/me bounds into the room in a buoyant manner.
/me light heartedly chuckles at Jared.
/me sends Jared a perky smile.
/me sticks his thumb up at Jared, thrilled at the decision.
/me is ecstatic!

Setting the scene

This is a great way of creating RP and conversation. What I mean by setting the scene is dropping emotes in /act that describe the environment or something within that other players can respond to. Basically, their goal is to create RP conversation.

For example:

/do Heavy rap music can be heard coming from the apartment above.
/do The sounds of a car accident can be heard on the intersection above the group.
/do The streetlights gloom covers Jared’s back, leaving his face shaded.
/do Several homeless men are perched in a porch way beside the Tiki Theatre.
/do A cool breeze cuts through the group.

The trick is to keep them subtle and realistic, don’t powergame or go over the top with;

/do A huge explosion hurls through the street, the blast wave throws cars into the air.

3. Downtime.

When something isn't happening and you're hanging around waiting for an order, the thing I hate to see is silence. A little bit of effort and research can leave your character with something to say at any time.

Stories - Every character should have a story or two, some funny or not, something that happened to your character in the past.

Jokes - Try and look up a few jokes, not all of them have to be racial, try and twist a few into an Italian-American context.

Conversation topics

The weather

Man 1 - "Shit, last night I was caught up in a freak rain storm, just outta town. Almost hit a bear, at least I thought it was a bear."

Man 2 - "Yeah, it started just as I had my leg through the front door. It couldn't have been a bear, could it?"

What you did on the weekend, what you plan to do.

Man 1 - "I'm goin' fishin' this weekend."

Man 2 - "I went out with my cousin last friday, deep sea, love it."

Television, programs you saw.

Man 1 - "Catch that documentary on Tibetan monks?"

Drink - what alchohol you like, research some whacky cocktails.

Women - Girls who have been banged, experiences with them, girls you intend to bang.

Movies – Funny scenes, parts you liked.

And the list goes on, but the goal is still the same, this will help you define your character and form friendships or disagreements between other faction members.

Personal favourite words and emotes you may find useful

TEXT

Unprofessional - Incompetent, Incapable, Amateur.

"He's an incompetent mutt."
"You see what he did infront of the club? Fuckin' amateur."
"Yeah, he's incapable of carryin' out the simplest of tasks."

EMOTES

Acknowledgement, Acknowledging - physical act of recognizing someone. (Note down recognize, alot of can't spell it.)
/me sends a nod of acknowledgement toward Jared.
/me turns his attention to Jared, acknowledging him with a nod.

Gesture, signal,- a motion as communication.

/me gestures toward the door.
/me raises his hand into the air, signalling Jared.

Pinpoints, homes in on - Another way of directing your look.

/me pinpoints Paul with a glance.
/me homes in on Paul with his glare.

1. If people haven't introduced themselves to your character, you don't know their name. Unless you met one of their friends or workers that told you their name. Shall you want to prove this fact, you must go to a random city and name every single person you see on the streets for me and film it.

2. You can't see people's jobs just by standing really close to them and seeing the job tag plugin. Unless they are a police officer, in which case they would have a uniform and badge, you won't know if somebody is a hitman/mafioso/whatever unless they or somebody who is in the know tells you. That being said, a random person like a doctor probably wouldn't know about a criminal organization, don't god the roleplay by accepting information from an idiot who wouldn't know, they have to have a reason.

3. Don't be a vigilante unless you have a specific roleplaying reason for doing so. If somebody is robbing, the cops will handle it, unless you are assigned to guard the building or are in cahoots with the robber don't get involved. When cops are chasing down a criminal, don't run with the cops, you put yourself at risk and there is no guarantee you won't be shot and killed by the criminal.

4. There is a Shift-key, you can hold it to walk. Nobody has unlimited stamina, jog around the town as you please but it would be best if you walk when you are in a building. If too many people are running around it creates chaos and confusion in a small area.

5. Don't powergame. This means that if you are in a situation with a different character, allow them the chance to actually take part in the roleplay. Don't say "/me knocks you out with a lead pipe", you don't know their character would be instantly knocked out and for all you know they could have cat-like reflexes, enough to duck out of the way. Say "/me takes a swing at your head with a lead pipe" this allows them to either dodge it or get hit. They will know if their character is good enough to dodge or not, don't worry about that.

6. You can choose to be a normal citizen and still have fun, not every single one of your characters has to be an ex-military commander who can disable a man in two seconds. You can still have intense social situations if your character befriends a criminal without even knowing it, good roleplays will probably result. If you are in a diner, you can talk to people, don't be shy, have your character make powerful allies to combat your enemies. You can still have hidden operations going on in the background, just don't make all your characters "Titanium Tits" with the ability to scale walls, dodge bullets and fire weapons with 100% accuracy.

7. Roleplay fear, this server seems to do a shitty job with this. If a man is firing a gun, run away from him, do not run at him unless you are a cop. Even a cop would still be afraid of a gang of terrorists with AK47's trashing a store. In a stick-up, it is best to follow the criminal's demands or expect to be murdered. Everyone gets scared, if you see a grizzly murder your character's mental health would be effected greatly and your first reaction would not be to confront the criminal. People with guns are scary, remember this. You will panic, you will sweat perhaps you will even break down crying in a terrorist attack such as an armed robbery or murder.

8. You must know how to spell, people who talk like "hi dudes, wuzzup" will get little respect in the roleplaying community, do whatever you like over OOC chatter but keep it clean and sensible in IC chatter and actions.