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Frenchfry:

--- Quote from: Tealize on June 26, 2010, 02:15:38 AM ---That's true, I just thought it might be nice for people who just want to vent in their own place; not through role-play or IRC. Also, I don't understand RP, do you use someone's character or just be yourself?

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Roleplay is a kind of fan-fiction. You could have the main character be youself, but that would be boring because it would largely involve you posting in forums. No, the best roleplays are of an origonal character, either one with the same characteristics as you or one totally different, going on an origonal journey and doing origonal things. If you were so inclined, you could write it in the first person, but I personally get annoyed by that, and it also takes away your ability to have multiple plots going on at once.

**Small detail I left out. You also have a bunch of other people writing the story with you, from the point of view of THEIR character. Because of this, writing one chapter can take weeks, and fights between two of the characters can result in butthurt on the part of the loser. This is also what makes roleplay so special, because in typical writing, it's almost insulting to have somebody co-write. So, it is very easy to tell a good RP'er from a bad one. If the Roleplayer is horrible, average, or anywhere in between, the plot with have more holes than the parachute of a dead man, and dialogue will be impossible to follow. If they are good to awesome, then the plot will be solid, and dialogue will be coherent and... not stupid. Small detail, amirite?

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