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Are you interested in joining tutorials or discussions on different aspects of roleplay?
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Laogeodritt



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 3:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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That said, it might be alot easier for people like me to draw their character(s) instead of describing them with words. Is that a possible option though?
Literary roleplaying is literary—make an effort to write the descriptions out in full. If you have more difficulty with it, you need the practice, anyway. Use a(n online) translation dictionary and thesaurus if you have to (but don't use a big word when a diminutive one will suffice—at least, do your best to).

It doesn't matter that you aren't a native speaker as long as you try and make an effort to write well and have a basic grasp of the language. (And you probably would want to let people know, so that nobody assumes it's your first language...)

By the way, in English, we don't use double-angle quotation marks (« and »), instead, we use double quotation marks (").


Also, "build", when referring to a person's body, is how they are physically: are they overweight, thin and slender, muscled? As for "quirks", they're odd traits of action or personality: maybe a nervous habit, a certain way of thinking or speaking, and so on.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 5:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

just pointing something out.... would second language people even know the word diminutive?
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 5:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

danime91 wrote:
just pointing something out.... would second language people even know the word diminutive?
If not, a new word for hir~

And yes, if they're moderately fluent in the language.

But seriously, I used it in that form because I've always known that as a quotation of some type (no clue from whom; maybe just a writer's proverb?).
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Invidia



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PostPosted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 5:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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By the way, in English, we don't use double-angle quotation marks (« and »), instead, we use double quotation marks (").


I have a French keyboard, it doesn't have the quotation marks (unless I use the other PC that has an English keyboard)

well thanks for the informations. I hope I wont meet someone who types three paragraphs in order to slash someone.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 6:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Invidia wrote:
I have a French keyboard, it doesn't have the quotation marks (unless I use the other PC that has an English keyboard)

well thanks for the informations. I hope I wont meet someone who types three paragraphs in order to slash someone.
Si vous utillisez un clavier français-canadien ou le clavier canadien multilingue, il devrait y en avoir. Je crois que c'est Shift et le point; si c'est l'apostrophe, essaye Shift et la virgule.

Euh, peut-être c'est appelé autrement en français. En tout cas, Shift est la clé qu'on tient pour taper une lettre majuscule.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 6:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

2 apostrophes sont comme des ''quotation marks''?

if it works ok that way, then ok I'll use ''apostrophes''
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Instead of making a new thread. I figured, why not announce it here? So, to let everyone one know, I will be making yet another Role Play. Although something tells me that I should wait while, because my effort might go to waste.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 12:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i made mine already before reading this XD
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:17 pm    Post subject: cool Reply with quote

~ I hope I can. . . . . hehe! if i make one fanfiction or role play.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dark Cloud Setho wrote:
Instead of making a new thread. I figured, why not announce it here? So, to let everyone one know, I will be making yet another Role Play. Although something tells me that I should wait while, because my effort might go to waste.


Oh, what's it about? Very Happy

As for waiting, I can imagine activity dying a bit in September...

Okay, I always thought about it, mentioned it a few times but... I'll definitely try to get back in RP - the hard thing is trying to sign up for something that isn't 20+ pages yet. I usually like signing up before the ball gets rolling.

Created my first character, and I'll probably do a few more to fit better into various settings, or at least make a rough layout so I can change them around a bit.

When I was 14-16 I used to participate in a lot of Sailor Moon-type RPs, they were really fun. ^^ Creating your own transformation, attacks, etc. Hopefully my writing isn't too rusty, hopefully it'll improve once I get back into it.

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

SilverWind, i have no idea if you are still active here, but you do make great points that i agree with, and am thankful for that you decided to take the time to write them all out, as it has been many moons since i was last in a role play that i had a few slip into the deeper regions of my mind. You know. The other 97% we don't use that thoughts float idly about in until they come back to the three percent that can remember them for you!!

So to close it out, you get one big cliche'd thumbs up! Wink
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 11:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I promise to always run my posts through a spell-check, to never cheaply control other peoples' characters, and always, always write at least a paragraph's worth before I hit 'Submit.'
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 7:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anyone interested in joining or creating a RPG similar to Persona 3/4? Surprised

For some reason I really want one. Laughing Especially with P4 coming up.

I'll probably think of something over the weekend. ^^ (Though I wouldn't mind creating one with someone.) Or if someone goes ahead and creates one, I'd love it. Very Happy

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 3:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

KittyKatStar wrote:
Anyone interested in joining or creating a RPG similar to Persona 3/4? Surprised

For some reason I really want one. Laughing Especially with P4 coming up.

I'll probably think of something over the weekend. ^^ (Though I wouldn't mind creating one with someone.) Or if someone goes ahead and creates one, I'd love it. Very Happy


I really would join you if I knew something about P3 or P4 but I don't. Laughing
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was in one on another forum recently, though it seems to have died out. I'd be happy to help create or at the very least join one, and I could even supply the high school map I made for the other one.

If it helps, the one I was in had a really interesting bio system, where the player would create a character like normal, only they would also answer a sort of personality questionnaire and PM it to the creator who would use it to pick their persona (the only element of creation the player couldn't control).
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