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- Dictionaryrole play/ˈrəʊlpleɪ/
noun
- 1. another term for role playing
verb
- 1. act out or perform the part of a person or character, for example as a technique in training or psychotherapy: "study participants role-played as applicants for community college"
- 2. participate in a role-playing game: "one to six players can role-play as any of over 100 characters"
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Basic Roleplayer and Character Terms. If you’re very new to roleplaying, the Forum Roleplaying basics guide will help you understand how some of these terms are used in everyday forum roleplaying lingo. Roleplayer, Player, Mun. The person at the keyboard playing the roleplay character. OOC or Out of Character.
Tense. Most play-by-post roleplay is done in the third person, past-tense. Third person is preferred as it’s generally more descriptive — and usually easier to read — than first-person writing. Past tense is preferred because it’s generally a little easier to write, and somewhat more flexible in a collaborative environment.
Powerplay (noun) Godmoding by controlling another roleplayer’s character without permission. Powerplayer (noun) A roleplayer who exerts powerplay. Powerplaying (verb) The act of controlling another character in active roleplay. Bunnying (verb) A synonym for powerplay, arising from Tumblr RPGs. Powerplay is the most common example of active ...
Godmodding specifically refers to character creation, skills, and certain situations. When pronouncing godmodding, “ [t]hink ‘modifying’ [instead of] ‘mode’” to differentiate the terms (Godmodders). Godmodded characters are often created by bad roleplayers. Godmodding is a common form of really bad roleplay that can be very harmful.
godmoder (noun) A roleplayer or roleplay character engaging in metagaming, powerplaying, or godmodding. godmoding (verb) The act of godmoding. godmode (noun) Generally not used in forum roleplay, though characters may be referred to as “in godmode” in rare instances. Godmoding refers to several types of bad roleplay as an umbrella term.
Roleplaying Thread Post Order. In some threads, a strict posting order is good roleplay etiquette. One-on-one threads should be replied to in turn. Posting twice to the same thread can be very confusing or even against the rules. Strict posting order also tends to hold true in larger threads that are plot-centric.
The use of out of character knowledge in character. Metagamer (noun) One who has metagamed or metagames. Metagaming is a form of bad roleplay that can be quite difficult to police. This is especially true if the metagamer is smart and stubborn. They can argue about how a character obtained information, how sensible it is for them to act one way ...
Roleplay Fight Styles. There are a few different roleplay fight styles. Some are based on dice rolls, some are based on number of words you’ve written, some are based on time. In forum roleplaying, “T1” or “paragraph-based” fighting style is used most often. It is one of two fighting styles covered in the Roleplay Fight Guide.
Roleplayers write responses to one another through posts. Each post describes the character’s actions, speech, and thoughts. Forum roleplay is often called play-by-post roleplay. Note that play-by-post roleplay does not always take place on a forum. With the rise of social media, Tumblr has become a large roleplaying hub.
In an office setting, the boss should pull you aside to issue a correction, not shout it for everyone else in the building to hear. The same principles apply to forum roleplaying games. Using a PM system has the added benefit of opening lines of communication between RPG administrator and roleplayer.
