Post by sithkilla on Feb 21, 2015 20:29:27 GMT -5
So I just got done typing this whole thing but then AG spazzed and deleted everything so I wrote this on a document to copy and paste and so this will probably be a lot more crappy than I originally had typed but whatevs.
With this group the literate roleplay that I think will be best will be Legacy. That doesn't have as much to do with the actual roleplaying as it does just with the characters. With Legacy it means we can roleplay SWTOR era and Clone Wars/Rise of the Empire. Someones character in SWTOR would be the ancestor of their Clone Wars/Rise of the Empire character, ya see? So it's all interconnected, and that then I guess is what we will do. Legacy. It will be the easiest and funnest way to do it. So those who want to rp both SWTOR and Clone Wars/Rise of the Empire can, and those who dont know SWTOR are unaffected and can just roleplay Clone Wars/Rise of the Empire.
Literate Roleplay Rules:
1) No heavy swearing. Don't make every other word a swear word. If your character swears thats okay but don't be constantly spewing swear words and stuff like have some boundaries guys.
2) Do background research. If your character is a Jedi then look up Jedi stuff and roleplay them as a Jedi. Same goes as to if your character is a Sith or a Bounty Hunter or whatever you so choose. Don't have your Sith act like a Jedi pacifist or your Bounty Hunter start spouting the Jedi Code. Be smart ya'll.
3) Roleplay your character...in character. If your characters personality would slap someone talking to them for something that they said then by all means smack em. The other player wont mind because they know its roleplay and that the character would do that. If they take it person then thats their problem. At the same time however dont be mean without a purpose. Don't have your character be mean to another character without purpose. If in your characters backstory for example their mother was killed by a Twi'lek and so they naturally hate Twi'leks and the other character is a Twi'lek your character is free to hate them but either talk to that characters admin and either have them be rivals and mad at each other mutally or something, but try not to have your character continue to hate them even if it does make sense for them to hate them as that can after a good long time hurt peoples feelings. Just work it out guys just work it out.
4) No god-modding. That's one of the worst things a RPer can do to another. That is controlling the other persons character. Like don't kill someones character unless you have talked to them about it first and both agreed on it or something. Dont randomly take control and make them do something.
5) DO NOT BREAK CANON. DO NOT BREAK CANON. THE DOCTOR FROM DOCTOR WHO CANNOT MAGICALLY FLY IN AND SAVE YOUR CHARACTER. YOU CANNOT KILL REVAN. YOU CANNOT STOP ALDEERAN FROM BLOWING UP. DEAN AND SAM CANNOT CRASH IN IN THEIR IMPALA AND HELP REMOVE A DEMON FROM EMPEROR PALPATINE. YOU CANNOT KILL PALPATINE NOR CAN YOU BECOME SUPREME LEADER OF THE GALAXY. However you can BEND canon. For example in my other literate roleplay group a player wanted her order 66 surviving Jedi to be a queen. So she did some research and found a canon star wars system that barely had any information on it and took it and made her character the queen of it, and with another player a clone was removed from the GAR and free after order 66 and got the clones brain chip removed before order 66 and so on. So yeah you can bend canon. But may Force have mercy on your soul should you break it.
6) Guys are allowed to have flirtatious characters as are girls. If it follows rule three and works with your character then its all good. What's not allowed is creeping. If you are getting creepy and nasty and all that stuff then that's not aloud. It makes the person its towards uncomfortable. It makes other readers uncomfortable. It's creepy. It's weird. No. I mean your character can get into a romantic relationship theres nothing wrong with that i mean one of my characters is in a romantic relationship with this dude im good friend's with bounty hunter character and its fun and great for character and storyline development but dont make it uncomfortable for others and dont make it like the freaking Titanic if there is a group rp or anything. You wanna go freaking Titanic? There is private message for that. Knock yourself out or your roleplay characters significant other up. I don't care and others dont either. Just dont be weird or overly public about it. Be respectful of others.
7) You are aloud to make character changes, just make sure everyone is aware of it upon that change.
8) In association to rule 7, you are allowed to roleplay stuff about your character anywhere. On a board, over pm, over instant messaging, email, whatever. Just make sure that you keep track of all that you do and your characters story and make sure everyone is aware of it too. Your character in a roleplay over pm gets their arm cut off and gets a cybernetic arm? Fabulous. Update your characters bio, wiki page (if we get wikis up or something for it in time), and just generally let it be known, especially when it comes to big stuff like arm loosing.
9) In another associations to rules 7 and 8, there are boundaries. Let's say there is a giant group roleplay and something big happens with your character. That's probably going to be set and stone in your character, because I dont think everyone will take kindly to you going "hey guys remember that giant month long in depth roleplay we spent weeks planning and did? can we like just scrap all that and redo it? I didnt like what my character did lawl". Changes such as appearance or faction change (its okay if your jedi goes dark side but again make sure that it makes sense. dont have him wake up and be like 'i feel evil today'. no have there be a REASON he goes dark side.) but as for big stuff that got a lot of people involved thats probably going to be set and stone. I mean character lore wise after a good while you could change small details within but like in the roleplay if a building fell and it caused a lot of action in the rp, then it wouldnt be a good idea to say that the building falling didnt happen. It wouldn't go along with everyone elses version of the roleplay, and make you the odd man out.
10) You can roleplay with as little as one person to up to a bajillion people. Doesn't matter.
11) Wait your turn in group roleplays. Person one goes then person two then person three and so on. If three people are roleplaying and person three has to go do something, person one and person two dont leave him in the dust unless he says its okay to go on. The thing about roleplaying is that there is no pressure or stress to be there. Your character isnt going to die if you accidentally take a day to reply.
12) You must have AT LEAST four to five sentences. I mean the rule can be bent a bit at first as people ease their way into roleplaying this way but do put some effort into your replies. Like pls guys.
13) Roleplaying is in third person. I know a lot of people write in first person, and thats all good and chill and you can write fan fiction about your character in first person, but trust me. For roleplay you are going to want to do third person. Me and all the other roleplayers in my other literate roleplay group have tried and we all have failed, and after that anyone who is first person we practically snipe at dawn because in comparison to everyone elses replies they are depressingly short and stuff and it gets annoying for people who put a lot of effort into typing good replies only to be replied to with a few sentences. (LRP hack: the longer your response is, the easier it is for the other person to reply just as long and you both gave a good rhythm going. Roleplayers feed off what the other writes.)
Group Roleplay Stuff That Can Be Done:
1) Stuff like a roleplay Order 66, the Sacking of Coruscant, the Battle of Geonosis, and such can be planned out and done in a group. They are fun to do and you can have as many people in them as you want. They are also good to explore the other side of what roleplaying does: lore. Everyone does a pinch of research like reading over a wookiepedia article and then everyone comes together and in the roleplay winds up trading facts and lore and shiz and you can really learn a lot about Star Wars lore from them.
2) Roleplay parties. IDK if many people here would be interested in that not at least until a lot of people get on and involved. But roleplay parties are just ridiculous spazzing in character. They are mainly just for fun, and dont really effect the characters canon life. They usually start literately but then by the time its over everyone is using * and no one really cares. For example a little over a year ago I went to one and a Duchess Satine was swinging from the chandelier, and my oc clone date started a banana fight and then jumped out a three story window and another jedi oc started a paintball and a cake fight. They are mostly just for fun and to take a break from the seriousness.
3) You can also write one shots and other fan fiction about your character and their backstory and everything and post em on here or post it on a fan fiction website and share the link here and such or do collab one shots and fan fictions with other players and such but WARNING: id hold off from sharing anything publicly until you have had time to work on and roleplay as the character and are for sure positive you arent going to change anything.
Character Creation:
Here is the basic template that will save your life so many times with both rp character creation and actually fan fiction and original story character creation:
-basic personality
-appearance
-faction (etc: jedi, sith, bounty hunter.)
Me and my literate roleplay group have a bigger thing that we use to sort our character information out and create basically wiki pages on them (except we use instagram) in a particular order and format thats super simple and also a life saver, but I'm not going to give it to you all just yet. It's too big of a temptation to go and try and fill everything out early, and that makes roleplaying so hard at times. A big part of roleplaying is character development, and you cant really do that when everything about them is already drafted out.
When I started out as did all the other members we just had those three basic listed things and now we have giant, indepth characters. When I started out my character was the mildly annoyed dark Jedi twin sister of Zabrack Jedi Padawan Maris Brood. Now she's half Falleen who survived Order 66, has gone on like fifty mass murder sprees and is at times eighty seven different types of clinically or chronically or both insane, has a Mandalorian husband, and is the empress of a tiny regional empire composed of like two solar systems that she was placed at the head of after her mentor passed away without a heir, and is the sister of a Mandalorian bounty hunter who owns a stallion and all sorts of other crap that would legit take me all day to sit down and type. All my other literate roleplay friends got similar stories. It's best to just have those three things and then build from there.
Also unless you are going full Legacy here and roleplaying both SWTOR and Clone Wars/Rise of the Empire, you are only going to have one character. This isn't the Ambush Games. You get one character, and trust me one is enough. Those who are both SWTOR and Clone Wars/Rise of the Empire get two (one per era). This will eventually change after we get in deep and someone wants to explore another area of the lore, but keep in mind guys that from Clone Wars to the death of palpatine thats like thirty five years, not including the twenty or so years before the Clone Wars (in my other literate roleplay group most everyones oc characters were in their early twenties or late teenage years at the time of Order 66) and so there will be a lot of room to explore. Like with my character she was a Jedi in the Clone Wars, and after Order 66 she became a freelance bounty hunter for several years, and over the course of those years she saved up enough credits and made enough friends and made enough contacts to start a crime syndicate base in a Core system and did that for several years before the empress thing came into play. I did that because I liked and wanted to explore the bounty hunting and criminal side of the star wars lore and liked it. Another player in my roleplayer group after her character survived order 66 later became a naval person admiral person in the rebel fleet because she liked the naval space battle side of it and wanted to delve into that. So just because your character starts out as whatever it is doesnt mean its not going to change so theres no need to make a million characters in ever single faction. Later more characters can be made, but not now.
Here also is another Literate Roleplay Hack: When creating your characters personality try to base most of it after your own personality. Like as you roleplay sure you arent a sith lord and wouldnt be in that same situation, but if you were that there make decisions and act how you would act. The most successful literate roleplayers find the happy harmony between themselves and the stuff that has effected the character (for example lets say your character went through something traumatic and got PTSD. You dont have PTSD, but knowing what PTSD is, you can make decisions with the character and act like you would if you were them). You can go farther with charcaters like that, they are more fun to roleplay, and you struggle a lot less.
Roleplay Pleasantries and Customs:
So the first things that will probably roleplay are introductions. Everyone will have a character and in the Clone Wars everyone will meet and go on some giant thing together. We will discuss that more later after everyone has made a character and before I post the first first official introductory roleplay (those are called rp starters) (later I will do a separate one for the SWTOR side of the Legacy later for those interested in that).
Most roleplays are planned out. Be they in groups or one on one. An idea is presented and the roleplay is mapped out vaguely. For example lets say there is someone who is a spy and another who is a bounty hunter. They could decide that okay its going to take place at an arms factory and the bounty hunter needs to find something and blow it up while the spy has to hack something and download something and then they can decide like a plot twist at the end where someones mortal enemy or a platoon of droids show up and they gotta figure out a way to weasel (or violently blast) themselves out of it.
There also however are Open Roleplays. Those in this situation would be someone randomly posts a roleplay starter and anyone is free to reply or join. There is no pre planning and everyone just adds stuff as they go along. If they are open then even if a few players are far into it then more people can hop in as they go along as they read and catch up and so on or are interested in joining.
There are such things as closed roleplays, which are just with one or two other players. People cant randomly jump into those unless invited. Sometimes people want to just have a roleplay story thing with a few select people and their characters, and thats okay. No one get offended by that. It doesnt mean people dont want to roleplay with you its just that they are trying to work on building their character and wanted to roleplay something and build with a few select people.
There is also action and casual roleplays. Action rps are, as you guessed it, crazy action. Casual roleplays are more talking and socializing which sounds kinda lame now but gets cooler as you get more into character. The characters can talk about the lastest crisis, steal a speeder and go do something stupid for fun, and sometimes female roleplayers like taking their characters shopping.
You can also be in more than one roleplay at the same time. This isnt Ambush Games. You are free to do what you want when you want with whoever you want with your character in as many places as you want. However sometimes someone will drop roleplays and focus on one and then when that one is done they will move on to complete the other roleplays they were in. Sometimes this can cause arguing because some people will be like "why are you replying to their roleplay and not mine". Guys understand that others are busy and its okay to prod them and jokingly remind them of it and be like "idjet go reply to our rp ya lazy bum". But dont go into full fledged accusing and start riots and fights just because someone doesnt reply to you right off the bat.
Anyone can roleplay extras they dont count as a character and everyone has custody and control of them. You need a random civilian to appear and do something stupid? Someone can bring that unnamed person and have them do the stupid thing, and then another player can either take control of that character and take them away, or they can just shoot the character in the head and still thus remove them from the rp dynamic.
When you are doing a roleplay you need to have the set year and setting and planet known before hand. If its after order 66 how many years after that is it? There is the BBY calendar, but my other group and I usually will name how many years before or after Order 66 its taking place. (LRP hack: Clone Wars was three years and thus began three years before Order 66. Luke blew up the death star twenty years after Order 66. Palpatine died twenty five years after Order 66. Remember that ya'll.)
Another thing about roleplaying is that you need to either tag the person in the response or (since the forum does this) do that quote thing. There needs to be a notification thing there so people know there is a response. In group rps at the end or before you type your reply then you tag every person involved. That being said. Start memorizing everyones user names. ^-^
Well. I think thats everything. Time for the roleplay example. I'm also going through the roleplay planning as well just to show how its done. I swear I'm a better roleplayer than this but this is just a quick example because I have sat at this computer like four hours typing all this and quite frankly im bloody kriffing exhausted. So yeah heres the example (the characters are my two ones in my other rp group but I will be NOT roleplaying as them here as the roleplay canon set and stone stuff there is in my literate roleplay group and this is a new group and a new everything so the storylines there wont overlap here) :
Characters are Kyra Callisto and Eclipse Brood. Decided time is one year after Order 66. Kyra is an Emperor's Hand and Eclipse is a freelance hunter but shes mostly on the run. Chosen planet is the Coruscanti underworld. Kyra does the starter.
PERSON ONE:
-Coruscanti Underlevels
-One year after Order 66
Time almost seemed to stand still after you get down so far into Coruscant's Underworld. Sunlight cannot pierce so many layers of metal and durasteel. The Underlevels are where people went to hide. That's how Kyra Callisto knew she should look for Eclipse there. That and also there would be a huge, illicit street race. Her hybrid former friend never missed one of those, and she had a habit of always poking her nose into danger. Kyra couldn't blame her. Everything had changed after Order 66 had happened. Her fist tightened at her side. Everything. Across the street where she stood, was a speeder garage. Any second now if Eclipse was there she would step out. Sure enough, there was movement.
PERSON TWO:
It had only been a year since Order 66. Any smart Jedi would avoid Coruscant like a plague and not even step inside a Core world for fear of their life. Eclipse was smart, but she was too stubborn for common sense. Let the Empire try to take her. She had this. So she had gone to the city world and met up with a few of her old friends who were oblivious to the fact she was a former Jedi and signed up for a speeder race. They knew she loved being behind the wheel and was a maniac of a driver. If anyone was going to win, she was a pretty safe bet. Taking a bottle of water in her hand, the Falleen hybrid exited the speeder garage and screwed off the cap before bringing it to her lips. As she drank the woman couldn't shake the feeling that she was being watched.
PERSON ONE:
There she was. You couldn't miss a woman head to toe in black with sharp red eyes standing alone outside in one of the most dangerous Underworld levels. Crazy suicidal psycho. Kyra shook her head, her black pony tail waving behind her head along with her. Pursing her pink lips, the spy crossed the street and weaved her way through the crowd. She kept one hand on her blaster handle, knowing that Eclipse would probably react violently to her approaching her out of the blue. It would probably be smarter to take out her lightsaber, but to whip out one of those in a civilian area would be a bad idea. The news of a lightsaber battle in the Underworld would reach the surface faster than a tabloid article of a politician's latest affair with some slim Twi'lek dancer. "Eclipse," she said plainly as she approached, her accent thick with her natural Aznati accent.
PERSON TWO:
Eclipse took a swallow from her water bottle and her crimson eyes met Kyra's blue ones. "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't drop you here and now, Callisto," she all but snarled. She knew what the Emperor's Hand had done. She had aided in Order 66, and if that wasn't bad enough the woman standing before her had murdered younglings. Little kids. She had always thought something was off about Kyra when she had known her during the War, but she had always brushed it off thinking that that was normal. Kyra was a spy after all and spies were creepy. Her true colors had been revealed on that fateful night however. True Eclipse had been on Hoth at the time and not Coruscant, but she knew other Jedi in hiding and some of them had seen Kyra's deeds.
[ skipping ahead past the beginning onto a later action scene in the roleplay ]
PERSON ONE:
"This whole factory is going to come in on our heads," Kyra grunted a bit flatly as slapped a fresh magazine into her blaster and opened fire into a line of security guards. She felt no remorse for taking their lives. They should feel honored having lived such long lives, unlike the other children she had trained with in her youth who died due to the intense training. There were no graves, no memorials for them. These men and women had families who adored them and would make sure they were buried in their Sunday best and stand around lamenting about them for days. Besides, wasn't that all they were in the end? Dead? That much was certain. Didn't matter all what one did. Death was inescapable. Even the Emperor himself was bound to death.
PERSON TWO:
Eclipse deflected return fire, the lasers bouncing off her blood red saber blades and flying back towards their original owners. "Oh, you don't say?" she replied sarcastically as she Force leapt forward through the air and impaled a rather annoying security chief. The fighting didn't effect Eclipse at the moment either. She was used to dishing out death and torment past the point where most mortal men would have turned into basket cases. That's all she had been used for in the War anyways. A weapon to be used up and exploited. Not a person. Just a weapon. She knew however later that the faces of those that she had killed would come back to haunt her later. "You know maps. You got us in here. Now get us out." She stabbed one in the gut then kicked his body off her blade and into another guard. Backflipping through the air, she landed back and resumed a defensive position next to Kyra. The whole building shook, letting them know that they were low on time.
PERSON ONE:
As Eclipse shoved the dead man onto the other one, she shot the alive one cleanly through the skull, finishing him off. She could feel the building shake down in her boots, and there was a loud cracking sound emanating from somewhere. Probably the lower levels. Shaking her head a bit, she extended an ivory hand towards a building support and shut her eyes. She could feel the Force flowing in her veins and used it to pull the support down on the remaining guards. Blaster fire ceased, but the building began to shake more violently than it did before. "Time for us to get out of here." She turned on her heel and bolted for the stairs, her boots pounding on the durasteel floor under her feet.
Okay so that's it guys. Everyone can go home. Or something. Bloody kriff this was long.
With this group the literate roleplay that I think will be best will be Legacy. That doesn't have as much to do with the actual roleplaying as it does just with the characters. With Legacy it means we can roleplay SWTOR era and Clone Wars/Rise of the Empire. Someones character in SWTOR would be the ancestor of their Clone Wars/Rise of the Empire character, ya see? So it's all interconnected, and that then I guess is what we will do. Legacy. It will be the easiest and funnest way to do it. So those who want to rp both SWTOR and Clone Wars/Rise of the Empire can, and those who dont know SWTOR are unaffected and can just roleplay Clone Wars/Rise of the Empire.
Literate Roleplay Rules:
1) No heavy swearing. Don't make every other word a swear word. If your character swears thats okay but don't be constantly spewing swear words and stuff like have some boundaries guys.
2) Do background research. If your character is a Jedi then look up Jedi stuff and roleplay them as a Jedi. Same goes as to if your character is a Sith or a Bounty Hunter or whatever you so choose. Don't have your Sith act like a Jedi pacifist or your Bounty Hunter start spouting the Jedi Code. Be smart ya'll.
3) Roleplay your character...in character. If your characters personality would slap someone talking to them for something that they said then by all means smack em. The other player wont mind because they know its roleplay and that the character would do that. If they take it person then thats their problem. At the same time however dont be mean without a purpose. Don't have your character be mean to another character without purpose. If in your characters backstory for example their mother was killed by a Twi'lek and so they naturally hate Twi'leks and the other character is a Twi'lek your character is free to hate them but either talk to that characters admin and either have them be rivals and mad at each other mutally or something, but try not to have your character continue to hate them even if it does make sense for them to hate them as that can after a good long time hurt peoples feelings. Just work it out guys just work it out.
4) No god-modding. That's one of the worst things a RPer can do to another. That is controlling the other persons character. Like don't kill someones character unless you have talked to them about it first and both agreed on it or something. Dont randomly take control and make them do something.
5) DO NOT BREAK CANON. DO NOT BREAK CANON. THE DOCTOR FROM DOCTOR WHO CANNOT MAGICALLY FLY IN AND SAVE YOUR CHARACTER. YOU CANNOT KILL REVAN. YOU CANNOT STOP ALDEERAN FROM BLOWING UP. DEAN AND SAM CANNOT CRASH IN IN THEIR IMPALA AND HELP REMOVE A DEMON FROM EMPEROR PALPATINE. YOU CANNOT KILL PALPATINE NOR CAN YOU BECOME SUPREME LEADER OF THE GALAXY. However you can BEND canon. For example in my other literate roleplay group a player wanted her order 66 surviving Jedi to be a queen. So she did some research and found a canon star wars system that barely had any information on it and took it and made her character the queen of it, and with another player a clone was removed from the GAR and free after order 66 and got the clones brain chip removed before order 66 and so on. So yeah you can bend canon. But may Force have mercy on your soul should you break it.
6) Guys are allowed to have flirtatious characters as are girls. If it follows rule three and works with your character then its all good. What's not allowed is creeping. If you are getting creepy and nasty and all that stuff then that's not aloud. It makes the person its towards uncomfortable. It makes other readers uncomfortable. It's creepy. It's weird. No. I mean your character can get into a romantic relationship theres nothing wrong with that i mean one of my characters is in a romantic relationship with this dude im good friend's with bounty hunter character and its fun and great for character and storyline development but dont make it uncomfortable for others and dont make it like the freaking Titanic if there is a group rp or anything. You wanna go freaking Titanic? There is private message for that. Knock yourself out or your roleplay characters significant other up. I don't care and others dont either. Just dont be weird or overly public about it. Be respectful of others.
7) You are aloud to make character changes, just make sure everyone is aware of it upon that change.
8) In association to rule 7, you are allowed to roleplay stuff about your character anywhere. On a board, over pm, over instant messaging, email, whatever. Just make sure that you keep track of all that you do and your characters story and make sure everyone is aware of it too. Your character in a roleplay over pm gets their arm cut off and gets a cybernetic arm? Fabulous. Update your characters bio, wiki page (if we get wikis up or something for it in time), and just generally let it be known, especially when it comes to big stuff like arm loosing.
9) In another associations to rules 7 and 8, there are boundaries. Let's say there is a giant group roleplay and something big happens with your character. That's probably going to be set and stone in your character, because I dont think everyone will take kindly to you going "hey guys remember that giant month long in depth roleplay we spent weeks planning and did? can we like just scrap all that and redo it? I didnt like what my character did lawl". Changes such as appearance or faction change (its okay if your jedi goes dark side but again make sure that it makes sense. dont have him wake up and be like 'i feel evil today'. no have there be a REASON he goes dark side.) but as for big stuff that got a lot of people involved thats probably going to be set and stone. I mean character lore wise after a good while you could change small details within but like in the roleplay if a building fell and it caused a lot of action in the rp, then it wouldnt be a good idea to say that the building falling didnt happen. It wouldn't go along with everyone elses version of the roleplay, and make you the odd man out.
10) You can roleplay with as little as one person to up to a bajillion people. Doesn't matter.
11) Wait your turn in group roleplays. Person one goes then person two then person three and so on. If three people are roleplaying and person three has to go do something, person one and person two dont leave him in the dust unless he says its okay to go on. The thing about roleplaying is that there is no pressure or stress to be there. Your character isnt going to die if you accidentally take a day to reply.
12) You must have AT LEAST four to five sentences. I mean the rule can be bent a bit at first as people ease their way into roleplaying this way but do put some effort into your replies. Like pls guys.
13) Roleplaying is in third person. I know a lot of people write in first person, and thats all good and chill and you can write fan fiction about your character in first person, but trust me. For roleplay you are going to want to do third person. Me and all the other roleplayers in my other literate roleplay group have tried and we all have failed, and after that anyone who is first person we practically snipe at dawn because in comparison to everyone elses replies they are depressingly short and stuff and it gets annoying for people who put a lot of effort into typing good replies only to be replied to with a few sentences. (LRP hack: the longer your response is, the easier it is for the other person to reply just as long and you both gave a good rhythm going. Roleplayers feed off what the other writes.)
Group Roleplay Stuff That Can Be Done:
1) Stuff like a roleplay Order 66, the Sacking of Coruscant, the Battle of Geonosis, and such can be planned out and done in a group. They are fun to do and you can have as many people in them as you want. They are also good to explore the other side of what roleplaying does: lore. Everyone does a pinch of research like reading over a wookiepedia article and then everyone comes together and in the roleplay winds up trading facts and lore and shiz and you can really learn a lot about Star Wars lore from them.
2) Roleplay parties. IDK if many people here would be interested in that not at least until a lot of people get on and involved. But roleplay parties are just ridiculous spazzing in character. They are mainly just for fun, and dont really effect the characters canon life. They usually start literately but then by the time its over everyone is using * and no one really cares. For example a little over a year ago I went to one and a Duchess Satine was swinging from the chandelier, and my oc clone date started a banana fight and then jumped out a three story window and another jedi oc started a paintball and a cake fight. They are mostly just for fun and to take a break from the seriousness.
3) You can also write one shots and other fan fiction about your character and their backstory and everything and post em on here or post it on a fan fiction website and share the link here and such or do collab one shots and fan fictions with other players and such but WARNING: id hold off from sharing anything publicly until you have had time to work on and roleplay as the character and are for sure positive you arent going to change anything.
Character Creation:
Here is the basic template that will save your life so many times with both rp character creation and actually fan fiction and original story character creation:
-basic personality
-appearance
-faction (etc: jedi, sith, bounty hunter.)
Me and my literate roleplay group have a bigger thing that we use to sort our character information out and create basically wiki pages on them (except we use instagram) in a particular order and format thats super simple and also a life saver, but I'm not going to give it to you all just yet. It's too big of a temptation to go and try and fill everything out early, and that makes roleplaying so hard at times. A big part of roleplaying is character development, and you cant really do that when everything about them is already drafted out.
When I started out as did all the other members we just had those three basic listed things and now we have giant, indepth characters. When I started out my character was the mildly annoyed dark Jedi twin sister of Zabrack Jedi Padawan Maris Brood. Now she's half Falleen who survived Order 66, has gone on like fifty mass murder sprees and is at times eighty seven different types of clinically or chronically or both insane, has a Mandalorian husband, and is the empress of a tiny regional empire composed of like two solar systems that she was placed at the head of after her mentor passed away without a heir, and is the sister of a Mandalorian bounty hunter who owns a stallion and all sorts of other crap that would legit take me all day to sit down and type. All my other literate roleplay friends got similar stories. It's best to just have those three things and then build from there.
Also unless you are going full Legacy here and roleplaying both SWTOR and Clone Wars/Rise of the Empire, you are only going to have one character. This isn't the Ambush Games. You get one character, and trust me one is enough. Those who are both SWTOR and Clone Wars/Rise of the Empire get two (one per era). This will eventually change after we get in deep and someone wants to explore another area of the lore, but keep in mind guys that from Clone Wars to the death of palpatine thats like thirty five years, not including the twenty or so years before the Clone Wars (in my other literate roleplay group most everyones oc characters were in their early twenties or late teenage years at the time of Order 66) and so there will be a lot of room to explore. Like with my character she was a Jedi in the Clone Wars, and after Order 66 she became a freelance bounty hunter for several years, and over the course of those years she saved up enough credits and made enough friends and made enough contacts to start a crime syndicate base in a Core system and did that for several years before the empress thing came into play. I did that because I liked and wanted to explore the bounty hunting and criminal side of the star wars lore and liked it. Another player in my roleplayer group after her character survived order 66 later became a naval person admiral person in the rebel fleet because she liked the naval space battle side of it and wanted to delve into that. So just because your character starts out as whatever it is doesnt mean its not going to change so theres no need to make a million characters in ever single faction. Later more characters can be made, but not now.
Here also is another Literate Roleplay Hack: When creating your characters personality try to base most of it after your own personality. Like as you roleplay sure you arent a sith lord and wouldnt be in that same situation, but if you were that there make decisions and act how you would act. The most successful literate roleplayers find the happy harmony between themselves and the stuff that has effected the character (for example lets say your character went through something traumatic and got PTSD. You dont have PTSD, but knowing what PTSD is, you can make decisions with the character and act like you would if you were them). You can go farther with charcaters like that, they are more fun to roleplay, and you struggle a lot less.
Roleplay Pleasantries and Customs:
So the first things that will probably roleplay are introductions. Everyone will have a character and in the Clone Wars everyone will meet and go on some giant thing together. We will discuss that more later after everyone has made a character and before I post the first first official introductory roleplay (those are called rp starters) (later I will do a separate one for the SWTOR side of the Legacy later for those interested in that).
Most roleplays are planned out. Be they in groups or one on one. An idea is presented and the roleplay is mapped out vaguely. For example lets say there is someone who is a spy and another who is a bounty hunter. They could decide that okay its going to take place at an arms factory and the bounty hunter needs to find something and blow it up while the spy has to hack something and download something and then they can decide like a plot twist at the end where someones mortal enemy or a platoon of droids show up and they gotta figure out a way to weasel (or violently blast) themselves out of it.
There also however are Open Roleplays. Those in this situation would be someone randomly posts a roleplay starter and anyone is free to reply or join. There is no pre planning and everyone just adds stuff as they go along. If they are open then even if a few players are far into it then more people can hop in as they go along as they read and catch up and so on or are interested in joining.
There are such things as closed roleplays, which are just with one or two other players. People cant randomly jump into those unless invited. Sometimes people want to just have a roleplay story thing with a few select people and their characters, and thats okay. No one get offended by that. It doesnt mean people dont want to roleplay with you its just that they are trying to work on building their character and wanted to roleplay something and build with a few select people.
There is also action and casual roleplays. Action rps are, as you guessed it, crazy action. Casual roleplays are more talking and socializing which sounds kinda lame now but gets cooler as you get more into character. The characters can talk about the lastest crisis, steal a speeder and go do something stupid for fun, and sometimes female roleplayers like taking their characters shopping.
You can also be in more than one roleplay at the same time. This isnt Ambush Games. You are free to do what you want when you want with whoever you want with your character in as many places as you want. However sometimes someone will drop roleplays and focus on one and then when that one is done they will move on to complete the other roleplays they were in. Sometimes this can cause arguing because some people will be like "why are you replying to their roleplay and not mine". Guys understand that others are busy and its okay to prod them and jokingly remind them of it and be like "idjet go reply to our rp ya lazy bum". But dont go into full fledged accusing and start riots and fights just because someone doesnt reply to you right off the bat.
Anyone can roleplay extras they dont count as a character and everyone has custody and control of them. You need a random civilian to appear and do something stupid? Someone can bring that unnamed person and have them do the stupid thing, and then another player can either take control of that character and take them away, or they can just shoot the character in the head and still thus remove them from the rp dynamic.
When you are doing a roleplay you need to have the set year and setting and planet known before hand. If its after order 66 how many years after that is it? There is the BBY calendar, but my other group and I usually will name how many years before or after Order 66 its taking place. (LRP hack: Clone Wars was three years and thus began three years before Order 66. Luke blew up the death star twenty years after Order 66. Palpatine died twenty five years after Order 66. Remember that ya'll.)
Another thing about roleplaying is that you need to either tag the person in the response or (since the forum does this) do that quote thing. There needs to be a notification thing there so people know there is a response. In group rps at the end or before you type your reply then you tag every person involved. That being said. Start memorizing everyones user names. ^-^
Well. I think thats everything. Time for the roleplay example. I'm also going through the roleplay planning as well just to show how its done. I swear I'm a better roleplayer than this but this is just a quick example because I have sat at this computer like four hours typing all this and quite frankly im bloody kriffing exhausted. So yeah heres the example (the characters are my two ones in my other rp group but I will be NOT roleplaying as them here as the roleplay canon set and stone stuff there is in my literate roleplay group and this is a new group and a new everything so the storylines there wont overlap here) :
Characters are Kyra Callisto and Eclipse Brood. Decided time is one year after Order 66. Kyra is an Emperor's Hand and Eclipse is a freelance hunter but shes mostly on the run. Chosen planet is the Coruscanti underworld. Kyra does the starter.
PERSON ONE:
-Coruscanti Underlevels
-One year after Order 66
Time almost seemed to stand still after you get down so far into Coruscant's Underworld. Sunlight cannot pierce so many layers of metal and durasteel. The Underlevels are where people went to hide. That's how Kyra Callisto knew she should look for Eclipse there. That and also there would be a huge, illicit street race. Her hybrid former friend never missed one of those, and she had a habit of always poking her nose into danger. Kyra couldn't blame her. Everything had changed after Order 66 had happened. Her fist tightened at her side. Everything. Across the street where she stood, was a speeder garage. Any second now if Eclipse was there she would step out. Sure enough, there was movement.
PERSON TWO:
It had only been a year since Order 66. Any smart Jedi would avoid Coruscant like a plague and not even step inside a Core world for fear of their life. Eclipse was smart, but she was too stubborn for common sense. Let the Empire try to take her. She had this. So she had gone to the city world and met up with a few of her old friends who were oblivious to the fact she was a former Jedi and signed up for a speeder race. They knew she loved being behind the wheel and was a maniac of a driver. If anyone was going to win, she was a pretty safe bet. Taking a bottle of water in her hand, the Falleen hybrid exited the speeder garage and screwed off the cap before bringing it to her lips. As she drank the woman couldn't shake the feeling that she was being watched.
PERSON ONE:
There she was. You couldn't miss a woman head to toe in black with sharp red eyes standing alone outside in one of the most dangerous Underworld levels. Crazy suicidal psycho. Kyra shook her head, her black pony tail waving behind her head along with her. Pursing her pink lips, the spy crossed the street and weaved her way through the crowd. She kept one hand on her blaster handle, knowing that Eclipse would probably react violently to her approaching her out of the blue. It would probably be smarter to take out her lightsaber, but to whip out one of those in a civilian area would be a bad idea. The news of a lightsaber battle in the Underworld would reach the surface faster than a tabloid article of a politician's latest affair with some slim Twi'lek dancer. "Eclipse," she said plainly as she approached, her accent thick with her natural Aznati accent.
PERSON TWO:
Eclipse took a swallow from her water bottle and her crimson eyes met Kyra's blue ones. "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't drop you here and now, Callisto," she all but snarled. She knew what the Emperor's Hand had done. She had aided in Order 66, and if that wasn't bad enough the woman standing before her had murdered younglings. Little kids. She had always thought something was off about Kyra when she had known her during the War, but she had always brushed it off thinking that that was normal. Kyra was a spy after all and spies were creepy. Her true colors had been revealed on that fateful night however. True Eclipse had been on Hoth at the time and not Coruscant, but she knew other Jedi in hiding and some of them had seen Kyra's deeds.
[ skipping ahead past the beginning onto a later action scene in the roleplay ]
PERSON ONE:
"This whole factory is going to come in on our heads," Kyra grunted a bit flatly as slapped a fresh magazine into her blaster and opened fire into a line of security guards. She felt no remorse for taking their lives. They should feel honored having lived such long lives, unlike the other children she had trained with in her youth who died due to the intense training. There were no graves, no memorials for them. These men and women had families who adored them and would make sure they were buried in their Sunday best and stand around lamenting about them for days. Besides, wasn't that all they were in the end? Dead? That much was certain. Didn't matter all what one did. Death was inescapable. Even the Emperor himself was bound to death.
PERSON TWO:
Eclipse deflected return fire, the lasers bouncing off her blood red saber blades and flying back towards their original owners. "Oh, you don't say?" she replied sarcastically as she Force leapt forward through the air and impaled a rather annoying security chief. The fighting didn't effect Eclipse at the moment either. She was used to dishing out death and torment past the point where most mortal men would have turned into basket cases. That's all she had been used for in the War anyways. A weapon to be used up and exploited. Not a person. Just a weapon. She knew however later that the faces of those that she had killed would come back to haunt her later. "You know maps. You got us in here. Now get us out." She stabbed one in the gut then kicked his body off her blade and into another guard. Backflipping through the air, she landed back and resumed a defensive position next to Kyra. The whole building shook, letting them know that they were low on time.
PERSON ONE:
As Eclipse shoved the dead man onto the other one, she shot the alive one cleanly through the skull, finishing him off. She could feel the building shake down in her boots, and there was a loud cracking sound emanating from somewhere. Probably the lower levels. Shaking her head a bit, she extended an ivory hand towards a building support and shut her eyes. She could feel the Force flowing in her veins and used it to pull the support down on the remaining guards. Blaster fire ceased, but the building began to shake more violently than it did before. "Time for us to get out of here." She turned on her heel and bolted for the stairs, her boots pounding on the durasteel floor under her feet.
Okay so that's it guys. Everyone can go home. Or something. Bloody kriff this was long.
it’s been quite a while. I’ve been pretty good, how about yourself? 