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Take your time.
There’s no need to rush in play-by-post roleplaying. The pace of a live, real-time roleplay chat encourages brevity, speed and less solid writing than forum roleplaying. By contrast, the pace of a play-by-post roleplaying game allows (and maybe even requires) a little more consideration and time to share something substantial with your audience.
When [...]
If most of your posts on your chosen community’s roleplaying forum or message board are:
Off topic / OOC banter
Huge nested quotes followed by “QFE” (Quoted for Emphasis)
LOL and WTF
Smileys and emoticons
Song lyrics
Quizzes/Memes
Word association games
bitchfests about how other roleplayers are inferior/doing it wrong
What the hell are you doing there?
Are you there to roleplay or has [...]
In forum-based roleplay, quality is just as important (if not more so) than quantity.
With very few exceptions, most play-by-post communities suggest their members take care to use proper grammar and spelling.
However, among some communities, there is this bizarre idea floating around: The more you post, the more cool/creative/special/popular you are. It doesn’t matter [...]
Build up a decent-sized conversation before sharing it with the public. Please. Quality > Quantity, but do you really think anyone wants to scroll through halting little snippets of speech pasted into 20 posts, just to get to the end of one short conversation?
If you’re trading several super-short posts with your roleplaying partner(s) [...]
If you’re going to take the time to write up something for a Play-by-Post roleplaying game or Forum RP, make it meaningful.
If your writing doesn’t set a scene, advance a storyline, describe a character, or contribute to character development, rethink why you’re sharing it on a RP forum.
Using nonsensical asides, off topic banter, smilies, cut-and-paste [...]
I wish more roleplayers would practice judicious use of white space when sharing their writing on a forum. Unfortunately, it seems like there is no in-between when it comes to using hard returns in play-by-post roleplaying.
Some gamers abuse the Enter key, sneaking in a hard return every time they think a pause might be warranted. [...]
The rest of the roleplaying intarwebs probably don’t think that edgy bit of lyric, quote rendered in rainbow-glow colors, or over-sized photoshopped JPG of a popular actor/actress is quite as cool as you do.
Particularly not once they’ve seen it fifty times.
If your posting system gives you the option to attach your signature, a good rule [...]
