Hi there everyone! I'm glad to be joining the Role-Player Guild (finally!). I'll go by the name of Nohara on here. I'm 21 years old and have been role-playing for about seven years now. I hope to see you all in roleplay, and it's very nice to meet you all. :)

Hello and welcome to RPG! I hope you enjoy your stay here. If you have any questions or need any help, feel free to ask.

I'll take you up on that! I think I'm just being dense, but I need to create a character sheet in the right section before jumping into an RP, right?

I come from a forum where you just create a character for every different thread, so I feel it's necessary.

The character sheet section is kinda like a storage bin of previous or future characters you might use or a place you can store ideas. Some roleplays use it to store character sheets so that they are all together. It's not mandatory since most people create new characters for each roleplay they join such as your other forum.

Ahh! Glad I asked then, thank you :)

No problems~

Another one; do I just... JOIN a on-going story, or is there a sign-up process?

The best place to check is the interest check section of your choice and find a roleplay that you are interested in joining. Sometimes looking at the roleplays will have an opening and you might find one to join there but the interest checks are the best. This is where roleplayers will start up a roleplay and find people that want to join and either in the interest check or the OOC you will submit your character sheet in the format the GM is wanting. Once you are accepted and the GM starts the IC, you can join in on roleplaying. If you need any help starting a roleplay or find one, I'll be more than willing to help you out.

Well, I think I'll end up settling down in the 'advanced' section of the RP, but for now I'd like to catch my footing here in the causal section. I'll go check out the interest checks now and see what I can find. Thank you for all your help thus far.

Good luck!

If you wouldn't mind looking at this and telling me if I did this all right, I'd be very appreciative!

It's looking good to me. Now you'll just have to wait for some interest. It might be good to start preparing your OOC sometime soon with more information, character sheet outline and anything else that you think that you will need.

Alright! I'm looking in the main part of 'casual RP' and am not seeing the OOC subthread... should I be looking somewhere else to start it?

If you open up a roleplay, you'll see that there is a tab on top in which you can switch between IC and OOC. When you make your roleplay, the first post will be for the OOC.

Oh, alright. So just start a roleplay telling the story with the character sheet and all that in it?

Adding a little more than that might be a good idea If you want to check out my roleplay for a loose example to use, go right ahead. It's the first link in my signature. Go right ahead and add more or omit a part depending on what is relevant to your roleplay. For example, the roleplay you are wanting to start up talks about three different groups so adding more information about the groups and any other details would be a good idea. Make sure you post up rules or expectations that you are wanting in the roleplay. Another thing you might want to look at is at the guide HeySeuss made to give you an idea that might work for you. His layout and what I have done for the OOC is a little more than what most people do for OOCs in Casual but as long as the presentation of information is good and the layout is easy to read, you should be fine with however much information you want to put up. The best thing to do is check out a few roleplays and see what GMs are doing for their OOC since each person has their own methods and you might find that some parts of one person might work better for you to use compared to another GM.

EDIT: Anyways, I'm heading to bed so feel free to pm me if you have any other questions at all and I'll get back to you in the morning.

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