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Who doesn't like to role play? We play a role at work, we play a role in school. We play a role with friends, and a different role with family. Role in itself is a psychological thing from which no social interaction could be free. And doing it right makes all the difference.
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Who doesn't role play? We play a role at work, we play a role in school. We play a role with friends, and a different role with family. Role in itself is a psychological thing from which no social interaction could be free. And doing it right makes all the difference.
 
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The purpose of this article, is not to berate or belittle people for the way they play. It is in fact intended to do just the opposite: To create an opportunity for people to avoid doing things that could get them berated, belittled, mocked or otherwise hurt in the process of acting out their characters. Yes, I did use the word ''acting''.
 
The purpose of this article, is not to berate or belittle people for the way they play. It is in fact intended to do just the opposite: To create an opportunity for people to avoid doing things that could get them berated, belittled, mocked or otherwise hurt in the process of acting out their characters. Yes, I did use the word ''acting''.

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INTRODUCTION

Who doesn't role play? We play a role at work, we play a role in school. We play a role with friends, and a different role with family. Role in itself is a psychological thing from which no social interaction could be free. And doing it right makes all the difference.

The purpose of this article, is not to berate or belittle people for the way they play. It is in fact intended to do just the opposite: To create an opportunity for people to avoid doing things that could get them berated, belittled, mocked or otherwise hurt in the process of acting out their characters. Yes, I did use the word acting.
Kymlun has been around for quite a while. You could say that we are quite ancient, though if you were born in 2002 you might take offence to that! Yes, Kymlun has officially been around since the beginning of 2002 though the plans and some starting issues of events have been played in late 2001 as well, mostly in the form of one-time campaigns - each linked together.
In the past decade we have seen many types of role play and developed our own likes and dislikes for certain things. Borne out of this raw experience, behold the ultimate guide to Playing Well! This article covers most topics regarding what could go wrong while having fun in role play.

About the author

Glortor has been role playing since 1986, on a nearly daily basis. What a geek. Glortor loves to role play. #dealwithit
Glortor has been a stage actor for a decade in his childhood, performing in local theatres as a child actor in various roles including masterworks such as Oliver Twist.
It came to a halt when the family said: you'll make no money with that. You'll be a lawyer instead!

Role Play vs Acting

The major difference between staged acts and role play, is that in RP, you improvise. In staged acts you usually follow a screenplay, while in RP you follow rules. So, it is probably harder to role play than to stage act. Here's to scaring you! Just kidding. Neither of them are hard but both can be improved upon even after years and years of practice. That is what makes it great: it doesn't actually take a whole lot to do either, but you can learn a whole lot while doing it!

Online vs Tabletop

Tabletop or Pen and Paper (pnp) rpg are what it sounds like: sitting with your friends around a table and rolling the dice, verbally acting out your characters while the Game Master (GM) or Dungeon Master (DM) offers a backbone narrative.
Online or Internet rpg (orpg) are many and far inbetween, from text-based to voice chat, from action-rpg to those where you cannot even attack anything.
What makes all of these the same thing is that they're a simulation of interaction through impersonating another, or projecting one's own personality through an imaginary character or in rarer cases, multiple characters.
What makes all the difference between pnp and orpg is the manner of interaction. They both offer various liberties, among them pnp allowing to apply and read metacommunication such as posture, tone of voice and facial expression, while orpg allow for things you would find more difficult to accomplish in spoken word (a monster's or the opposite gender's voice) and allows for a wider use of the imagination.
Due to the personal nature of pnp, people behave differently than in orpg. It is well known fact that people can "get away with" more online than in person. There is less pressure but also due to the lack of personal interaction, less communication as well.
Neither of the above venues are better or worse than the next, but some may prefer either.

Honourable mentions

BAD ROLE PLAY?

I climbs the mountain while grinds his teeths?

I see more and more people completely unaware of verbal tense whatsoever. So here you go! "Climbs the mountain while grinding his teeth."
"I climb the mountain while grinding my teeth."
Decide which type of emote you use: Are you describing your character as HE does something, or do you identify yourself with your character and post as if narrating yourself? Third person is what most people use these days.

What does climate have to do with rp?

No, not anti-climatic. It's anti-climactic, something you need to avoid.

1. A decline viewed in disappointing contrast with a previous rise: the anticlimax of a brilliant career. 2. Something trivial or commonplace that concludes a series of significant events: After a week of dramatic negotiations, all that followed was anticlimax. 3. A sudden descent in speaking or writing from the impressive or significant to the ludicrous or inconsequential, or an instance of it: "Waggish non-Yale men never seem weary of calling 'for God, for Country and for Yale' the outstanding single anticlimax in the English language" (Time).

In role play this basically means, don't do stupid random crap that ruins the immersion such as jumping into a group going "I'M BATMAN!" or whatever.

And suddenly you take your own head and rip it off?

Offense is taken not given!

WORSE ROLE PLAY?

Metagaming

Godgaming

Conflictgaming

Purposegaming

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Hatemongering

Elitism

Jokeplay

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