| Player Bios
Other Dark Shadows Links |
Welcome to Dark Shadows-RPG on Onelist Here we will explain all the characters that are currently in the Dark Shadows RPG as played on the Onelist Community. |
| Subscribe to DarkShadows-RPG | |
| Powered by www.ONElist.com | |
There are no set rules for the RPG, but general protocol has us doing our roles, then leaving empty, what others are to say and do, for the most part. If you have seen how we have been performing, you will notice one character does and says something, then waits for the person interacting with them to post a response.
For Example:
(person playing
Barnabas)
Barnabas:
Julia, we must find a cure and now!
(Then whoever Julia
is will reply)
Julia:
Yes, I know Barnabas, I am trying.
There are some instances where in the post it seems as if one person is doing everything. This happens when a person is playing more than one role, and is interacting with themselves, in order to develop the story. But all in all it is very rewarding and fun to do.
Now another thing you might note is the actions we do are usually separated with either ( ) or < > And what the action is, inserted between.
For Example:
Barnabas <walks
towards Roxanne, quietly> Hello Roxanne.
Some other guidelines
you will want to know are:
1. Try and respond
for your character, within 24 hours. When players stagnate (and often
times we do) It stagnates the RPG, and the other player who might be interacting
with you at the time.
2. Permission is needed before you can kill off a character, other than your own. This is pretty easy to understand, but mainly because they might not want to be dead. :)
3. If you take on an extra role, be sure to develop them for all of us, so we will know who they are, and why they might be committing certain actions. We have had problems in the past, where a role was created, then not be used.
4. Feel free to ask anyone for help. There are no professional Role Players here, and we all needed assistance when we first joined.
5. Summarize your characters, every two weeks, or once a month. The game is growing, and this way newbies who want to join, can see who is doing and playing what.
6. Try and review the archives, to see what has occurred on past posts. This cuts down on confusion, plus it also helps a person be more informed when beginning.
7. Knowing
what's going on: It really, really helps if you read all the
posts, even when
your characters aren't involved. In this way, you know
who's doing what
where and with whom. At some point one of your characters
may wish to interact
with the others. For example, if Liz goes to Sheriff
George Patterson's
office and there are a group of people there, it makes no
sense for her to
ignore everyone and speak merely to George.
8. Form:
It helps to separate actions by < > or to make sure they are
clearly indicated
if in prose format. Thoughts and such can be indicated in
brackets as well.
If you have more than one character speaking, it makes it
easier to follow
if their dialogue/action is set off with their name and a
colon. And then
some times there are no parentheses or brackets, but the actions and thoughts
are separated with a paragraph.
Roger: Liz, have you lost your mind?!?
Liz: On the contrary, Roger, I think I've finally found it.
At the end of the
post, we put down the names of our characters included.
So using this above
example, I would write:
Roger and Elizabeth
9. Interacting with
characters not our own: If you are playing more than
one character, it
is perfectly fine to have them interact. For instance if
you were playing
Chris and Amy Jennings, you could write dialogue and
actions for both
characters. If though you had Chris talking with Carolyn
and someone else
was playing Carolyn, you would leave Carolyn's response
blank or at the
most very vague.
a)Acceptable:
Chris: I can't be
involved with you in that way, Carolyn, can't you
understand that?
b)Also Acceptable:
Chris: I can't be
involved with you in that way, Carolyn, can't you
understand that?
<Sees Carolyn looking upset>
c)Not really acceptable:
Chris: I can't be
involved with you in that way, Carolyn, can't you
understand that?
Carolyn: No,
I can't. Chris I love you.
In example b. it's
perfectly logical to assume that Carolyn would be upset.
The person playing
Carolyn though probably has their own ideas of what words
she would use and
what he/she wants their character to say or do.
Now let's say the
person playing Barnabas writes a paragraph long monologue
like post.
You are playing Jason McGuire. You can still respond to this by
breaking up the
paragraph with Jason's thoughts, movements and actions or
even having him
interrupt Barnabas with his own remarks.
Barnabas: You
a very mysterious man, Mr. McGuire. No one seems to know
very much about
you. I do however. Willie has told me quite a lot. I
warn
you, Mr. McGuire
that my cousin Elizabeth means a very great deal to me.
Should she come
to harm. . .<Barnabas gives Jason a chilly evil looking
smile> Etc.
The person playing Jason could do the following:
>Barnabas:
You a very mysterious man, Mr. McGuire. No one seems to know
>very much about
you. I do however. Willie has told me quite a lot.
Jason: <Smile fades as he wonders just what Willie has been saying>
>I warn you, Mr.
McGuire that my cousin Elizabeth means a very great deal to
>me.
Jason: She
means a very great deal to me as well, Mr. Collins. I love
Elizabeth and I
mean to marry her.
>Should she come
to harm. . .<Barnabas gives Jason a chilly evil looking
>smile> Etc.
10. Doing your own
thing. We all have story ideas and plots we want to have
our characters do.
But this should be fun. No one should feel forced to do
anything.
It isn't fun when someone railroads the other players into a plot
by not giving them
some room to breathe. This is often a wonderful creative
exercise of give
and take. One player takes a story idea and throws it to
the next player,
who may reshape it and add something to it, throwing it
back to the first
player or onto the next. Relax and go with the flow.
11. MOST IMPORTANT
Taking
on roles you can't handle: Try and be careful in selecting
a
character--for two
reasons. A character may be too difficult for you to
play or more commonly,
you may not have enough time to play that
character effectively.
This happens because you either have a very busy
real life and can't
be on-line frequently or because you have too many
roles. If
it's the former, try to select a character who is not at the
forefront of the
action constantly (e.g. Barnabas). You may also wish to
not involve that
character in very active plots because it does get very
frustrating for
the other players who are waiting on you to respond for
days or a week at
a time. If you have too many roles and can't keep
track of them all,
consider giving up one or several of these--again it
slows the game if
you have no idea as to where everyone is.
This is just a brief background on what has been going on, as far as what we are used to seeing in posts. We just want you and the rest of us to have a great and fun time in doing this. We love the RPG list, it makes our day at times.
These are the basics, but if anything else should come up you need assistance on, please don't hesitate to ask. We are all here to make this enjoyable for everyone. We hope you will join us, and partake of a great experience.
       | |||
| Download AOL Instant Messenger | |||
09/19/1999 10:56:12 PM
Created
with DiDa!