[moans]

[socksuke_uchiha]

Rundown: rpanons is an anonymous community for role-play related topics. This place serves as a forum for game discussions, canon discussions, RP solicitations (ATP, game ads, open memes), and advice. The occasional off topic comment is inevitable, but please keep heated social and political topics to their respective communities. Posting them here will only get them frozen. Subsequent threads made to bypass a freeze will then be deleted.

Rules:

Do not post pornographic or shocking images.
Do not share private entries, plurks, chat logs, etc.
Do not use this community as your social/political/hatespeech soapbox.
Do not be redundant. One page does not need three or more threads on one topic/theme. Your unfunny, forced memes also fall under this rule.
Do not treat this comm like your personal therapist. Threads about nonfictional suicide, self injury, rape, and abuse will be deleted. There are better resources out there for you.
Do not treat this comm like your personal Plurk or Twitter. Off-topic happens, but it should be open for discussion and not just a play-by-play of your life. No one cares.
Shut up about Tumblr. If it's not a discussion about Tumblr RP it will be deleted.


CONCERNS | RESOURCES


Navigate:

Political topics are banned. Report threads and they will be deleted.

LATEST PAGE | LATEST FLATVIEW PAGE

GAME DISCUSSIONS | CANON DISCUSSIONS | HTML/GRAPHIC HELP

ATP/ENABLE ME | GAME ADVERTISEMENTS | PB SUGGESTIONS | USERNAME SUGGESTIONS

GAME IDEAS | CHARACTER ADVICE | RP WITH ME | TEST DRIVES

KINKS YOU WANT TO PLAY | PAIRINGS YOU WANT TO PLAY | RECOMMEND A CANON/CHARACTER | GENERAL DWRP QUESTIONS

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

In my experience, stick to what the player reveals in a tag/writes about in a "first impressions" journal post/other public free-to-assume info, including long-ago network posts.

And of course, avoid taking metatext like inner dialogue into account! Sherlock noticing that a character is crying sadly is fine; Sherlock magically understanding that the character is crying because they had a flashback to when they were 8 years old and dropped a popsicle on the floor = not fine. I've found that keeping an actual list of concrete details/facts can help differentiate between the two.

A reasonable way to offset the "am I being infomoddy" feeling can be to have your character notice all those details, but build the wrong picture out of them. Misunderstandings happen all the time even with smart, perceptive characters!

More generalized advice would be to know when to pick your battles. Sometimes tags aren't as descriptive as you'd like, in the sense of being helpful in expressing the true breadth and depth of what your character might notice.