Ijust wanted to add - there is a thread in the Order forum right now talking about setting up (and have set up) different RP rooms that are SPECIFICALLY SET IN OTHER AREAS! (caps for emphasis, swear not yelling lol).
I agree of course when you walk into any RP room you have no idea what or where you may be. Its why when I enter an RP I generally don't start putting in "place" details, just "me" details and I wait and see how the RP goes to help me determine the "setting" the other RPers are hanging out in.
I've seen it in Pubs, or in people's front yards, or in Dralk, or Chic, or "the Valley" or "the lair" or whatever. Its going in and just seeing how the flow goes and where people are talking about being.
And of course - ASKING
(hey guys, what type of setting are we sitting in?) I've never had any other RPer balk at given at least a brief description to set the scene.
Now - as to what the OP posted about - it is totally possible to play out your storywithout narrating it in a chatrom that would require othes to be where you are at "wether its Kion or wherever."
Many characters come in and out of the "chat room" stil RPing their storylines - but they might do it like "Blabhlah walks into the clearly, reading from the script his Kion trainer just gave him - and says, "Man this is soo complicated!" Thereby allowing someone to start asking "hey wht's going on with that there!"
So while you wouldn't be RPing talking to your Kion Monk Master (unless you Rped the NPC comign into the area to talk to you, also possible! LOL), you can certainly "wander into" a chat area and bring that up for a subject of discussion "My trainer was telling me blabhlah and I'm mad/angry/confused/happy because Blahblah".
I have certainly see characters doing that constantly. Because otherwise people would never know where their character was at. Not everyone is there for every step of a "story" or "plot" so giving them oportunity to find out where the character is and what they are puzzling over in this way lets pepole jump in and out as they can.
I hope that makes sense. There is a way to compromise between setting up a seperate chat room everytime you want to RP something, and just wandering into "random chat rp" and still moving your story forward with interactions from others.
Re: I rant about...well, pretty much everything.
Originally Posted by LungTien Temeraire
When I talk with new players about this, I tend to ask them, at first, if they know how the other roleplayers do, and if they don't, I explain this to them (IC, OoC, brackets, RP areas,...). I tend to not speak about rules, just explaining them what, when, how, and why. I did that yesterday, with a new player, and he quickly adopted the brackets.
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