Post by Administrator on Jun 5, 2005 13:11:06 GMT 1
or: How To Play Without Rules
Roleplay. What is it? It's like acting. In general, it is acutally the same thing. Just, it has no script. The script is made during the game.
Roleplay in the classical way is today known with the famous rulebooks, be it Shadowrun, DSA or AD&D, or others. But roleplay, in that sense, with all these rulebooks, they aren't really free. one can still not completely act out the charater you're playing.
To fain this Freedom, one needs to get in to a higher form of Roleplay. Serious, true roleplay. How I can say so? Experience. Ri~ght. Yep. Because one plays the Character, without fearing that you ahve a critical miss, or that you run in to a random monster hoard, or whatever else is randomized. And one plays the character just as the character is.
All you need to play in freeform is: a healthy human mind, the will to be flawed, fairness, and respect towards the other players.
A true Sin, and this happens often, is something that I call pwoergaming: My character can do everything, hears everything, sees everything, is invulnerable, untouchable, the most beautiful, strongest, has the best armor, an indestructible blade, is filthy rich, etc. pp. Another way to call this would be Godgaming.
I'll repeat: Freeform is, with few exceptions, serious roleplay. The character is vulnerable. He has errors. The worse your character seems, no matter how sad it may seem, the more interesting is the RP. Perfect god-creatures aren't fun. A god-child that has no idea how it's powers work, though, is. An untouchable hero is not fun. A farmer's son, whose greatest dream is to becoem a hero, taht is fun.
Freeform takes time, and one needs to be able to be truly in-character. I've seen horrible before, and that from people, that called themselves roleplayers. I don't want the Roleplaying-worlds out there to become mroe rotten than it already is.
[glow=blue,1,300]Any questions, please, post in this thread.[/glow]
Roleplay. What is it? It's like acting. In general, it is acutally the same thing. Just, it has no script. The script is made during the game.
Roleplay in the classical way is today known with the famous rulebooks, be it Shadowrun, DSA or AD&D, or others. But roleplay, in that sense, with all these rulebooks, they aren't really free. one can still not completely act out the charater you're playing.
To fain this Freedom, one needs to get in to a higher form of Roleplay. Serious, true roleplay. How I can say so? Experience. Ri~ght. Yep. Because one plays the Character, without fearing that you ahve a critical miss, or that you run in to a random monster hoard, or whatever else is randomized. And one plays the character just as the character is.
All you need to play in freeform is: a healthy human mind, the will to be flawed, fairness, and respect towards the other players.
A true Sin, and this happens often, is something that I call pwoergaming: My character can do everything, hears everything, sees everything, is invulnerable, untouchable, the most beautiful, strongest, has the best armor, an indestructible blade, is filthy rich, etc. pp. Another way to call this would be Godgaming.
I'll repeat: Freeform is, with few exceptions, serious roleplay. The character is vulnerable. He has errors. The worse your character seems, no matter how sad it may seem, the more interesting is the RP. Perfect god-creatures aren't fun. A god-child that has no idea how it's powers work, though, is. An untouchable hero is not fun. A farmer's son, whose greatest dream is to becoem a hero, taht is fun.
Freeform takes time, and one needs to be able to be truly in-character. I've seen horrible before, and that from people, that called themselves roleplayers. I don't want the Roleplaying-worlds out there to become mroe rotten than it already is.
[glow=blue,1,300]Any questions, please, post in this thread.[/glow]