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Title: V:MP Roleplay Guide #01 - Your first steps, your character!
Post by: Mark on February 04, 2021, 12:08:45 am
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V:MP Roleplay Guide 1 - Written by Mark



Introduction

Hello! We have prepared this guide for newplayers and community veterans to take few tips before playing in deep in our server. This guide will basically talk about your character and how can you create, build, and develop it.  Before reading this guide, we ask you to have a good look at the V:MP Server Rules. (https://www.argonathrpg.eu/index.php?topic=129566.0) Your first step in-game (after reading further about game tutorial and commands) are to decide what character do you wish to roleplay as? How does this character looks like? How you should react in daily situations? And more questions to ask yourself which will be explained further in this document.

Note; this guide is especially important for veterans as well to understand what they have to do to adapt with the new RP environment in the server.



Ingame character

We have quoted the most important rule section that's related to this guide. This is what we will be giving more tips about. Make sure you read the quote very well.

In-character:
  • 9. In-character means you are carrying out actions and behaviors of the character that you are roleplaying with in-game. It's the character persona that you choose to roleplay in the server
  • 10. You can have more than one character
  • 11. You should consider for each character roleplaying their feelings, concerns, personality, acquired knowledge, and traits
  • 12. This character is not you - the person behind the screen and keyboard
  • 13. Types of chat used: /l, /w, /s, /em, /me, /cb and ingame voice chat



Character's name

The first thing comes to your mind when you decide to create your character is the name. What name would you like to use for your character? Your name should be in this exact form: FirstName_SecondName.

Few tips...



Character's age and physical traits

Your character's age is not your real life age, let's start here. It is a common mistake, if you wish to roleplay a 12 years old kid you should know it's almost impossible for a kid that age to be able to shoot, drive and escape the police without consequences. Roleplaying yourself inside the game is not suitable either, you're here because you want to roleplay somebody else and do things that IRL you would probably avoid. You should be wise when deciding the age of your character, a 80 years old probably would probably struggle in running very fast. Be wise, pick an age and stick to it, build the rest of your details around it, for example clothing and vehicles style.

Sometimes you have to be precise regarding your character's details. An example would be when the police arrests you and processes your info in the database (fictional or not, you still have to be realistic in-character), they'll start asking your height and so on. Now, a very tall and muscular man surely can't suddenly be described as a 1.60m skinny human, so make sure you describe your skin as realistic possible, if you wish to change it you are free to but when approached you should be true to the skin/clothes you're currently using.
Regarding this particular point, it's alright if you wish to describe different clothes that for in-game limitations cannot be shown, as long you inform the other player of it in /em, your creativity will be accepted!



Character's backstory and personality

Whenever you create a new character you should start thinking on what you want this character to be. Do you want him to be a depressed business man in the search of happiness? Are you building a psychopath? There is literally infinite choices and it's always up to you and your creativity!

Why does this matter in roleplay?
There are multiple uses for it, an example is when applying for government or player factions, you'll be asked to write a background story of your character, it is really important that you give thought into it, write a story as reference for yourself on how to act in a scenario. This story will be also a reference point for the faction you're joining on how to approach you in-character and it will smooth out your interactions at the beginning as you learn new faces.

This is a quick backstory and personality example

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In conclusion, this is just an example of one of the traits you can build your character on, and it is very important that you make use of it, it's important to be realistic with your actions after choosing certain paths, you'll have plenty of enjoyment from it and give fun back to those interacting with you as well.



Character's Fear is also part of your personality

This is a delicate argument to touch, some people like to be bulletproof or sponges that can survive five armed men or ignore multiple patrol units while being on foot chasing their character down the streets. It's alright to resist but when roleplaying you should remember it also important not to ruin other players enjoyment, avoiding fear roleplay can be really annoying for the other side and it is a rulebreak. I'll try to be very brief and simple on the definition: As humans we have emotions and fears, we all experienced one in our lives. Being realistically in-game means also playing with these emotions, when the character's story above was created we didn't mention the fears of my character but that doesn't mean it doesn't prove feelings at all, my character is not a robot.

Some examples:


What if a real threat came from another player or group ?


Naturally, when you are in a group of people you will feel invincible as long as you remain close to them. However if you are intimidated by another gang, it is recommended that you don’t try to pull off a Rambo, it's not just unrealistic but also an easy way to ruin someone else experience on the server.

and finally...Be creative!
Title: Re: V:MP Roleplay Guide #01 - Your first steps, your character!
Post by: LS Vagos on February 04, 2021, 03:39:50 pm
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Be creative!
Very nice guide!
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