Posted by Macheath on February 4, 2000 at 07:42:57:
In Reply to: Oh good...someone finally set me up with that question. posted by Cyradia(IMM) on February 4, 2000 at 00:03:37:
> I've seen several different styles of 'role', some of which I've liked better then others. But as far as the 'do you guys bother?' question...I have comments: > If you have a well written role, chances are you've done a pretty good job of fleshing out the character. The two seem to go hand in hand. If you have a role, you and we (imms) know what 'rules' your character is playing by. Rules meaning motivations and general rp guidelines. There's a lot of difference between a highly personalized well roleplayed character and just a generic X class, Y cabal no brainer. I hope this encourages everyone to play the former. > It allows the immortals to roleplay an omniscient being. Obviously we can see logs, know if your cheating...etc. But how many of you have gone to an empowerment interview where the first thing the immortal said was, 'Tell me about yourself?' Ok, put your hands down...it was a rheorical question. If you wrote a role explaining your background...the immortal could already know that and jump into the good stuff. Not to mention the feeling, IC, that your immortal had been watching you through childhood or whatnot. > Is it mandatory? no. But if you're going for a tattoo or empowerment...you're signing up for a big rp job. If you ignore role then you've just thrown a large rp tool back in our faces. I have a hard time taking seriously any mortal who comes to me without a role. > Roles are a reflection on you to atleast some degree. Writing them so that they're readable (line breaks people at 60 chars) and concise is good. Having a role doesn't mean you need some freaky story about how a spider on super radiation bit your grandmother who then turned into a turkey and laid an egg so you were walking in the forest when you fell asleep for 200 years and woke up to find you really weren't the farmer you were before but are now a bright blue warrior. Not to limit creativity...but I don't think role means you need to have an extremely wild and outrageous story. It just encourages well thought out character development. > Hrm...I think that's enough rambling. Note, these views are solely mine. Role is new for both immortals and mortals.