And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,
Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels,
Leash’d in like hounds, should famine, sword
and fire Crouch for employment. But
pardon, and gentles all, The flat unraised
spirits that have dared On this unworthy
scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can
this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France?
or may we cram Within this wooden O the
very casques That did affright the air at
Agincourt?”
Player 2:
“I dunno.” -pokes ur butt
Now, it’s very unlikely someone will
be posting the Chorus’s passages from
Shakespeare’s Henry V. Every play needs all
of its characters to participate to tell a
story. If you are just sitting back and letting
other people do all the work, you’re an
audience, not a player.
VIII
GODMODDING VS. POWERGAMING, THOU SHALT
KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.
Godmodding is when a player tries to
write the actions of another person’s character. Don’t do this without permission. Give
other players a chance to react, even if this
means they can dodge or escape your idea.
Powergaming is when a player’s only
objective in a roleplay is to win. Even if it’s
not a combat roleplay. They will constantly
try to change the rules, because they don’t
like the outcome.
Meta-gaming is when a character
uses knowledge that they could only have
gotten by breaking the fourth wall. Just
because a player knows something about
the session or another person’s character,
doesn’t mean their character will.
IX
THOU SHALT SEPARATE IC AND OOC.
PEOPLE ARE NOT THEIR CHARACTERS.
Actors are not their roles. It’s just that simple.
X
THOU SHALT WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW.
And if you don’t know it. Look it up.
Roleplaying can be very cathartic; a way to
vent or work through a problem you’re
having. Or it can be hurtful if without
warning, another player starts
melodramatically trying to reenact a trauma
you’ve experienced and they obviously got
all of their information from a soap ope