However, grey area can be as confusing as it can be forgiving. There are a few things I feel desperately need to be clarified:
1. Threads meant strictly for OOC planning DO NOT belong in the IC forum. If you are posting your character bio and a request for new RPers, but not any IC content, it goes in the OOC forum.
2. Beyond that, the use of OOC threads is largely up to you! The OOC forum and its subforums are meant to help members organize their RP and enlist more players. Truly, if you make use of the OOC forum for planning and recruiting, you will have a much easier time building a bigger, better RP. Here are some things to consider:
- Combining your OOC planning (bio, rules, contact requirements, etc) with your IC content can leave players unsure of just what they're getting into. It can be more effective to finish your planning elsewhere so that everyone knows where they're starting when they join the IC thread.
- RP is a fickle beast! Lots of OOC planning threads are created that never actually go anywhere at the time. Starting this in an IC forum may be considered a waste of space, and really, you shouldn't be opening threads with purely OOC content in an IC forum anyway (see point number 1, above.)
- Use of OOC subforums are also left to member discretion. Remember, however, that if you already have an OOC thread in the OOC forum, that acts as a request for more members in your IC thread. You're encouraged to re-open and bump that OOC thread, rather than opening an RPers Wanted thread.
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- The private RP forum was not created to section off mature content. All RPGateway rules apply there, including those involving excessive vulgarity and blatant sexual content.
- Also, the forum was not created to open a breeding ground for "net speak" and one-liner posts, despite the fears some may have to this effect. In essence, the forums are intended for forum RP, and therefore forum-level posting. Remæus has put a great deal of effort into providing members with a chatroom for the aforementioned.
- In reference to the above, I would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that every window into which we type our posts comes equipped with a spell-checker and a red-to-green text-warning that informs when a post is considered too short to post. These are not strict rules, but are general guidelines that every member should consider when making use of the services this website provides.
Moderator edit: This is an edit made to this post regarding the Private Roleplay forum. This forum is actually closed. For more information, please refer HERE. Thank you, and we apologize for the inconvenience.
4. The Multiverse is a source of great confusion for many members. Remæus has posted the rules for the Multiverse at the top of its forum:
Forum rules
There's no need to post rules or requirements for joining here!
This whole forum is one big roleplay, with no specific rules or guidelines.
If you want to create a roleplay in a single thread, this probably isn't where it needs to be.
Remember – this whole forum is one persistent world –
your characters are free to move from topic to topic here with no restrictions.
There's no need to post rules or requirements for joining here!
This whole forum is one big roleplay, with no specific rules or guidelines.
If you want to create a roleplay in a single thread, this probably isn't where it needs to be.
Remember – this whole forum is one persistent world –
your characters are free to move from topic to topic here with no restrictions.
Consider it this way:
RoleGateway's Multiverse is a single roleplay contained within this website. It is its own massive game where elements from multiple "universes" can co-exist. Every event in a Multiverse thread is persistent across every other Multiverse thread, just at a different place within the "multiverse." Each thread corresponds to either an event or location in the Multiverse (depends on how the thread-creator meant for that thread to be), and your character can only exist in one place at time. Anyone with a character(s) in the Multiverse can participate in a thread. They are constant, and your character(s) can interact in the threads as you see fit. You can join at any time, so long as you don't violate the persistence of that world. Planning is inherently unnecessary (but nonetheless encouraged), as the storyline(s) are driven by conflict between characters' personalities and motives.
Threads in IC forums outside of the Multiverse are not connected to events in the Multiverse.
I sincerely hope this is helpful to everyone. Mods and admins work hard to keep the place running as smoothly as it does, but everyone must do their part! If you notice a misplaced thread or need something deleted, moved, split, merged, or whatever else, remember to smack that "Report" button at the top of the post/thread. It will inform us immediately of your request!
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Lightning-Z's Edit:
What is said above is what we need to know about the Forums for Play-by-Post Roleplays, but now we shall focus on the new Roleplay Tab that has been implemented on RPG. It is fairly simple to use and hopefully it will be used more often in the future. With that said I am going to explain how it is used.
The Roleplay Tab and it's sub-tabs:
- The Roleplay tab is located at the top of the website next to the Account tab. When you hover over the Roleplay tab three sub tabs appear: My Roleplays, My Characters, and Add New Roleplay.
- My Roleplays: This is where you see and manage the roleplays YOU have created. Here you will be able to accept characters, read posts, edit your roleplays accordingly and add new places to your roleplays (more on that later.)
- My Characters: This is where you manage your characters and edit their bios, descriptions, equipment, etc. for a roleplay.
- Add New Roleplay: In this tab you will be able to create your own genuine Roleplay. When you click on this Tab you will be directed to a form that you must fill out. In this form you will give your Roleplay a title, a brief description, give it tags so that others may search and find your roleplay easily, a thumbnail (Picture) for your roleplay, a setting (as in, where does it take place: Futuristic on another planet or Fantasy in the land of Dreams), then you may select if you want to personally approve characters or allow all characters without approval, And lastly you will be able to add the rules and an introduction for your roleplay. This makes it easier than formatting a post to your liking and it just becoming a cluster of words that you get lost in. The roleplay will be organized into sections for you, and will save you a lot of trouble.
Managing your Roleplay:
When you have successfully created a roleplay it will then be available in the "my Roleplays" tab. Once you click on your roleplay, tabs will appear above the introduction. As of right now we are going to focus on a few specific tabs: Characters, places, chat, Posting, and OOC.
- Characters tab: Here you will be able to manage all the characters in your RP. If you decided to regulate who you accept in your RP then the character tab is what you will use to deny or accept them. You will be notified when someone decides to join your roleplay and makes a character. Through this tab you will easily be able to read every char's bio without the hassle of getting your OOC thread all cluttery. Here is also where you will create a character for your own Roleplay.
- Places Tab: This tab allows you to make your Roleplay more interactive with actually having different places. Here you can add a place such as Miami, Florida and it will be one of the places you will be in during your roleplay. Then you can move from there and go to Japan or whatever place your imagination may conjure up.
- Chat Tab: This tab may be used for your Roleplay planning or for Chat RPing. I mean It's pretty straight forward, it takes you to a chat.
- Posting Tab: This tab is what you will use to create a new post and read the posts of others. If the posts do not show up immediately, please click the activity button to refresh.
- OOC Tab: Is where you will create an OOC thread. If you need to read about OOC threads then look at what ThatsNotPoetry wrote above. Aside from that, it will contain the OOC for your Roleplay for easy access. That way you do not have to search through the OOC sub-forum for your thread.
Joining a RolePlay through the Roleplay tab:
Joining a roleplay through the Roleplay tab is just as easy as joining a roleplay on the forum if not even more simple. First, you click on the roleplay tab and it will take you to a list of roleplays that you may be interested to join. Next, you will click on the roleplay that you are interested to join and it will take you to the introduction of the roleplay with more tabs above that. Here is an example of such a Roleplay: roleplay/memento-mori-a-persona-iii-roleplay ; as you can see, at the top right corner of the roleplay there is a little boxx that tells you if characters must be approved or not. This box also links you directly to the rules of the roleplay and gives you a link to where you can create a character for the Roleplay.
Creating a character: Creating a character is very straightforward, just follow the format given and you should be fine. Make sure to add anything that the Game Master wishes you to have on your profile though.
In Conclusion:
The Roleplay tab exists to make your roleplays more organized and easier to manage and truly should be taken advantage of. With that said, the usage of the Roleplay Tab is no excuse to spam or get completely off-topic and not RP whatsoever. If you are familiar with creating characters in the Multiverse, then you have no problem doing the same with other types of Roleplays.
