Roleplayer Guild - Forum Roleplaying Games

Let this be a place for those of us who want to share tips on advanced roleplaying. If you know of something that could help others in this specific "art", share it and post it up for the masses to read through.

Hey guys. It might just be me (probably is) But i haven't seen many people viewing or posting in the advanced roleplay section. It kinda concerns me a little and i wanted to add a couple of points to the whole thing.

Don't be put off by the required length of the posts. All you really gotta work on is description and interaction. Sounds complicated? It really isn't. You just simply gotta explain how people are acting and where you are doing it. You yourself will know, but the REAL art to it is describing it in such a manner that anyone could come along and see in their minds eye what your describing.

Alot of the greatest writers in this world focus very little on specific details while writing, but focus more on the actual interaction of the characters and the overall perspective of their work. Tolkein for instance is less than specific in certain battle scenes, explaining the goings on from a very limited view point (I.E. individual characters) or from an overall view point (I.E. battle formations, where certain waves of forces are moving on to and fighting over). He doesn't actually explain THAT much and yet LOTR's is a relatively HUGE book because he focus' more on the interaction and overall veiwpoint than the fiddly little bits of description. Keep that in mind and you can't go far wrong.

Another thing to remember. Actions speak a thousand words. You can make your characters talk until they are blue in the face. But the real focus should but what they are doing, rather than what they are saying: A stumbling block for a lot of people. Speech makes up only a small fraction of communication, most of it is done through emotion, body language and gesticulation. speech is the best way for characters to gain specific information from others, but it's ultimately your actions that are gonna get you to where you want to be and advance the roleplay along it's storyline.