Different RP Styles
Many people have their different ways of roleplaying and its up to them which way they choose to comfort themselves. Below are just some of the types of roleplaying that are used. Feel free to pick one for yourself.
The Novel RP'er
This type of roleplaying is the most common out of the lot and the most preferred. People who roleplay this way, roleplay as if they are writing a story of some sort. An example of this is below:
'Sarah looked down the corridor and headed slowly to the Professor's office. She was slightly nervous of meeting the Professor. Raising her hand, she knocked on the door. She opened it and greeted the Professor, "Hello there, my name is Sarah, when will class start?" '
The Asterix RP'er
This type of RP'er uses asterix's (*) to play out actions. This is probably best used for Normal roleplaying unless the member goes into detail whilst using the asterix. For example:
'*Sarah looked down the corridor and headed slowly to the Professor's office. She was slightly nervous of meeting the Professor. Raising her hand, she knocked on the door. She opened it and greeted the Professor* "Hello there, my name is Sarah, when will class start?" '
The Italics RP'er (actions)
There is two types of italics RP'ing. This one is where members italic all of the actions that they make. Like so:
'Sarah looked down the corridor and headed slowly to the Professor's office. She was slightly nervous of meeting the Professor. Raising her hand, she knocked on the door. She opened it and greeted the Professor, "Hello there, my name is Sarah, when will class start?" '
The Italics RP'er (speech)
This is exactly the same as the above apart from this time the member italics the speech that their character uses instead of the actions. An example:
'Sarah looked down the corridor and headed slowly to the Professor's office. She was slightly nervous of meeting the Professor. Raising her hand, she knocked on the door. She opened it and greeted the Professor, "Hello there, my name is Sarah, when will class start?" '
The Multi-Colour RP'er
This type of roleplaying is where you can use any of the above types but use colours to show the differences between your actions and speech. An example is below:
'Sarah looked down the corridor and headed slowly to the Professor's office. She was slightly nervous of meeting the Professor. Raising her hand, she knocked on the door. She opened it and greeted the Professor, "Hello there, my name is Sarah, when will class start?"'
Please note that you don't have to follow any of the above, you may choose your own style and you can merge two of the above etc. this is just a simple guideline to the most popularly used ones. |