Guidelines
Okay, here it goes. This is the hardest part of the RPG to explain to people. This is HOW TO POST.
I’ve run a few RPGs before, and what drives me up the wall is when people ignore the fact that I say POST LIKE ME. They go off into their own little world and it drives me up the wall. I’m not being a control freak (well…not really a control freak…) but I think in RPGs, everyone should post the same for continuity’s sake.
I’ll give a sample of what I do not want. I’ll be doing these as descriptions of Samael; it’ll help you know what he looks like anyways.
- D O N O T- I walk down the halls and know that I catch the eye of other hunters. I don’t look like them, I’m tall and slim, with marble white skin, black hair and black eyes. I wear a hooded cloak, a black bodysuit, and a mask over my face, because I’m very feminine. I wear two swords, a long sword of a vampire hunter and a short sword of a demon hunter.
- D O N O T - * Samael walks down the halls. He is tall and slim, and his skin is white. He has black hair and eyes. He wears a black bodysuit and armor, and has two swords. People look at him and begin to mutter. *
- A silence fell over the halls as the dark cloaked hunter appeared in the doorway, because everyone knew who that was. Samael Dominais, the highest-ranking hunter of dual-qualifications in the world. His dark onyx eyes swept over the hunters there, and as he began walking at a brisk pace, his long black cloak fluttered about his ankles. He wore a black bodysuit, that defined every curve of his incredibly feminine body, and a plate of armor that was marked with a silver cross. The black contrasted sharply with his skin, which was as white as marble, and the few strands of hair hanging from beneath his hood were as black as a raven’s wing. A mask was drawn over the lower half of his face; it was rumored Samael was beautiful beneath it. But there was a hardness to that beauty, revealed in the two swords that he wore. One was the long sword of the vampire hunter, the other the short sword of the demon hunter. Clearly, Samael was a daring hunter, and a skilled warrior. “You there,” Samael glanced to a lesser hunter, and his voice, though a soft tenor, certainly rang of being male. “Do you know whether or not the council meeting has already begun?”
- Sure, my way is a little longer. But before you freak out and start crying, you DON’T HAVE TO BE THAT DETAILED! My writing is very detailed. May I add that I’ve never gotten anything below an A in any English class, I read Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park in 3rd grade in an hour and a half and understood it, and I’ve always been in the 99th percentile on standardized tests for reading. However, I know everyone’s not as much of a freak about writing as I am (Yes, even I think I’m a bit strange), and I understand there are people both worse than me, and much BETTER than me. As I said, if you can write at a junior high to high school level, you’re going to do just fine. Heck, if you need help figuring out what to say, just as me and I’ll help.
