Pips Flickr Pics Submission “ For my friend Diamond ” by : Anais Maelle
RPing OOC ’ ly
One of the biggest destroyers of quality role-play , are the players that insist on throwing their OOC conversations in and among the live RP happening around them . It ’ s so hard to keep the thread of a story when you see gestures fly by , or a ton of bracketed OOC comments weaving in and out of your powerful and artfully crafted drama scene .
THINK people , take it to the communities group chat , to private IM ’ s or any other group conversation that allows it . But keep it out of local and if you ’ re not paying attention to local , leave the RP area .
OH ! ALSO ! Don ’ t forget to turn off ALL gestures ( save those for your weapons ) before entering ANY role-play zone . If they ’ don ’ t already ban them in the TOS , they will soon and the gestures will kill RP and have others trying to get away from you !
The Vulcan Mind Meld
Can you read mind ’ s in RL ? Can most people ? It ’ s not even scientifically proven that anyone really can ( or cannot ) in RL … so the point is , don ’ t do it in SL RP either . An example of this would be , “ Filipa thinks to herself , wow it would really suck if this guy didn ’ t respond to me in this way ,” or , “ Filipa knows you will do what she has said she wants you to do in her RP ”. You just can ’ t guide someone like that !
This is also known as thought projection and it ’ s annoying at best , illegal in RP at worst . There
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