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Roleplaying Rules and Guidelines

Rules

Here are some rules to follow to help rping be fun and enjoyable for all members, please be sure the read them over and if you have any questions feel free to contact a rp mod. ^^

~ Follow PokeHeroes rules, you can find them here

~ Avoid God-Modding – God-modding is a term that is used to describe someone who gives their characters too much power and makes them completely unfair in the role play. Examples of this would be, having a overpower character who dodges all attacks and doesn't get hurt at all.

~ Avoid Bunnying – Bunnying is a term where a member takes control of another member’s character so that the storyline goes their way, or they control what that character says or does without that member’s consent to do so. There are special circumstances where a member may give another member permission to use their character which doesn’t count towards bunnying.

~ Follow the rules of individual rps – When rps are created each one has their own set of rules and conditions as well, be sure to follow them closely.

Character Sign ups and the Sign up Section

A new section added in the Roleplaying forum is the RP Sign-up section

To help with keeping the rps organized this section is used for members who want to create rps to open up sign-ups for them instead of having the members sign up in the same thread the rp is in.

So opening up a new rp:

~ Creating a sign up for the rp in the sign-up section

In the sign up you can post the background to your story, the character sign-up form, a list of members in the rp or any other information that you need. There could also be a link to the actual rp when it opens up.

Now since this was newly added it doesn’t affect the rps that are currently opened, however if people would like they could open a sign-up anyways for new members who want to join that specific rp.

~ Opening up your rp thread

Open up your rp thread, to get started with your rp. If you want in the first post you could give a link to the sign up thread in case any other members are interested in joining the rp.

Guidelines:

Be Active - Inactivity is one thing that can hurt rps, so before joining an rp make sure that you have the time to be able to participate.

Write interesting/descriptive posts - When writing your post its good to write multiple sentences that could have a characters actions, feelings, reflections, and other things that paint a clear scene of what's going on. Posting small and uninformative posts could make it difficult to move the storyline along or have other members of the other rp respond to your character.

Look for examples - if you are new to roleplaying look towards other roleplayers who have been rping for awhile. Use their posts as inspirations for your own and to get a good idea of how to set up your own posts.

One important thing is when you are roleplaying to have fun and enjoy it ^_^

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(I hope I can post here)

Another good thing is to avoid too much romance/violence. ^^

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Romance/violence, on my opinion, is fine when its in a Private RP. Although, getting in a load too much is a bit of a trouble for Public RPs, but violence is a bit more... Fun than romance, counting of the Five Nights at Freddy's RPs.

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What still bothers me is that almost everyone's RP posts are barely a sentence. It bugs me a lot, I can't role play. *sniff*

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I don't enjoy roleplaying on such busy forums. I prefer smaller groups of people. Like...20ish is a good amount of people. Haven't found anything on Pokeheroes, but jcink and proboards might be more your style of posting. :)

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Godmodding is ALSO bunnying i think(PM me for RP's).

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I am so sad, most of the roleplay here are characters randomly roaming around until they die, no plot whatsoever. XD

Some are fun though.

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Title: Stars of Time

Strating up this story. If you have any ideas. pm me

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I think this needs to be updated. There is soo much more when it comes to rping. (sorry been rping for a very long time and run many servers for it). This gives the basics but I would love to see more detail about what kind of RPs are allowed, how far they can go, rules against certain things or limitations we can not surpass.

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It's also helpful to not post anime characters exposing too much or dressed inappropriately as your 'appearance'.

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I'm thinking of posting the PTK rule on here but at the same time it's quarter to five in the morning :S :/

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Love rps but no one usally wants too\
so sad

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So Cool!

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my only question here is if you encounter someone who has been bunnying you even after you ask them to stop multiple times what should you do if you are not in charge of the rp? same with godmodding.

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I have a question- is swearing allowed in some roleplays? Because it's a rule on here to not swear, but I remember some old roleplays having swears and we never got warned or anything.

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yes, if censored. Please don't go overboard and never curse at the user, only the character!

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