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Thinking more about Drama Free Roleplay.
My characters aren’t here to act as NPC’s for yours or vice versa.
That is a key point to keep in mind in free form roleplaying, where one of the main precepts is that you choose what happens to only your own character. But it gets sticky when roleplay [...]
Sympathizing with my current annoyance over RDI drama, a SWG roleplayer saw some similarities to another situation and pointed me to Elijas’ Guide to “Drama” Free Roleplay over on Starsider Galaxy. Elijas distills the requirements for avoiding OOC drama into four points:
IC Actions = IC consequences: “If you kidnap the leader of a roleplay [...]
Over on the Starsider server at Star Wars Galaxies, roleplaying has evolved into a strange and awkward beast.
RP there is generally an “anything goes” system of semi Free Form RolePlay, occasionally and randomly mingled with the restrictions of actual game mechanics and a sort of tabletop RPG power system. This might work if much [...]
Free Form Roleplaying is commonly described as roleplaying without rules. Lacking the reassuring, orderly structure provided by GMs, tabletop sourcebooks, regular character level-ups, and predictable NPC villains and monsters, FFRP is more interactive and collaborative fiction than traditional pen-and-paper roleplaying. However, even without rules, there are three fundamental guidelines that make it work: Cooperation, Consent, and Courtesy.
Cooperation: [...]
