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Officially 40
Posted a year agoAs the title says it's my level up day today and I'm officially 40 as of today. I've been old for a while, but now my age reflects my personality.
Happy Birthday to Me.
Posted 2 years agoIt's a happy birthday for Dracologist today. The 23rd of April has come once again and now I'm 39, so I'm getting up there. I know that I've been a little lacking in updates and content, but I hope I haven't been entirely forgotten about. Just need to get back on the ball.
I was recently made a Martial Arts instructor after running the Dojo by myself for 3 years while the Senior Master recovered from the big C. I'm just happy to be learning Kung Fu and it's a lot of fun for me to pass what I know on to other students.
I still plan on doing writing, I know a lot of you are waiting on that, and I haven't forgotten about everyone. I just work a lot of jobs and it makes it hard to find time. Anyway, enough excuses. Got to get back into things. My real passion will always be writing... and Kung Fu, but I can combine those.
I was recently made a Martial Arts instructor after running the Dojo by myself for 3 years while the Senior Master recovered from the big C. I'm just happy to be learning Kung Fu and it's a lot of fun for me to pass what I know on to other students.
I still plan on doing writing, I know a lot of you are waiting on that, and I haven't forgotten about everyone. I just work a lot of jobs and it makes it hard to find time. Anyway, enough excuses. Got to get back into things. My real passion will always be writing... and Kung Fu, but I can combine those.
New Portal Game (kinda)
Posted 3 years agoSo new on Steam there's a game that was released called Aperture Desk Job. You're a project manager testing products being made by the science teams (I don't know, I haven't played it yet). What you want to know about this game... is that it's free. Check it out.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/.....ture_Desk_Job/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/.....ture_Desk_Job/
Cleaned up my Journals.
Posted 3 years agoI chose to do a little bit of cleaning of my old journals, so if you look at them and notice that nearly all of them are missing thing you'll now know why. Oh yeah, hi everyone!
RIP Stan Lee
Posted 7 years agoAs of today, Stan Lee has passed away after a long time of dealing with health issues. My heart goes out to his family and friends.
Patreon Supporters
Posted 8 years agoAs promised as part of my patreon rewards I'm listing this journal here on FA to list my current Supporters so that people can know who's helping to fund their stories to be produced.
Patreon List
hindel
blackknife12
If you would like to have your name listed here please check out and donate to my patreon and I'll update this list on the first of every month.
https://www.patreon.com/dracologist
Patreon List
hindel
blackknife12If you would like to have your name listed here please check out and donate to my patreon and I'll update this list on the first of every month.
https://www.patreon.com/dracologist
Starting a Patreon.
Posted 8 years agohttps://www.patreon.com/dracologist
I wanted to let people know that I have started a patreon to help with my writing while I progress through the monster list. I hope that you all will take a look at it and give me some feedback.
I wanted to let people know that I have started a patreon to help with my writing while I progress through the monster list. I hope that you all will take a look at it and give me some feedback.
10 years with the furry fandom?
Posted 9 years agoIt might not look like it, especially if you check my FA account, but I've been part of this fandom for a long time now. My memory isn't the best, but I do believe that I first joined the fandom either June or July of 2006 when my military service ended. That was a long time ago.
I guess my story with the furry fandom started before I knew what the term "furry" was and I was roleplaying on a website that allowed anything. At first I only played dragons for the longest time, but made my own chat room on this site and called it the Anthro Village, which is medieval in setting. Kind of a safe haven for anthro characters away from humans and other races. Just storyline based stuff. That was back when I was in highschool, though, and that site was very demanding in the quality and quantity of its rping. I stopped rping for a very long time, mostly due to being busy with service and just not having the time or will to continue it. Now all of those past characters are all shelved and I have a much more limited cast that I play with. Near the end of my service I made n account on a website called Yiffstar where I used the chat as my main rping area, which was fun. I was on and off of that, but I do remember being really upset about them changing the name to SoFurry and felt that it was done in reference to the Dark Knight movie that came out and the Joker's tagline going around everywhere as "So Serious". I honestly don't remember why I made a FurAffinity account, maybe it was so that I could see picture links, I don't know. It wasn't until I moved to West Virginia that I started actually participating in the furry community, starting with writing my own story series based off of a Sex Fighting based Role Playing system called Lands of Luste. I wrote this in my off hours when I was working for a local gas station called SpeedWay. It wasn't until I started working for Ticketmaster that I made the bold offer to write free works for people and a lot of people jumped on it. It gave me a lot of good practice and I'm happy that I did it. A few months later I was making a commission price list and people were contacting me about doing work for them. Now I write full time almost exclusively for the furry community, though when other people outside of these websites contact me I absolutely jump on it. I've had twists and turns, bends and falls, but all of those have made me a better writer and better commissionee. I've learned the hard way that client satisfaction is the most important thing, even more important than reputation AND my opinions for a story.
For those that have stuck with me all this time, I want to thank you. For those that have left and come back, I want to thank you too. It's been quite a wild 10 years from role player to full time writer. I still do love rping though, so if you want to feel free to contact me and we'll see if we can hook things up. For everyone else, I hope to one day work for you and I appreciate the support, faves, and watches.
I guess my story with the furry fandom started before I knew what the term "furry" was and I was roleplaying on a website that allowed anything. At first I only played dragons for the longest time, but made my own chat room on this site and called it the Anthro Village, which is medieval in setting. Kind of a safe haven for anthro characters away from humans and other races. Just storyline based stuff. That was back when I was in highschool, though, and that site was very demanding in the quality and quantity of its rping. I stopped rping for a very long time, mostly due to being busy with service and just not having the time or will to continue it. Now all of those past characters are all shelved and I have a much more limited cast that I play with. Near the end of my service I made n account on a website called Yiffstar where I used the chat as my main rping area, which was fun. I was on and off of that, but I do remember being really upset about them changing the name to SoFurry and felt that it was done in reference to the Dark Knight movie that came out and the Joker's tagline going around everywhere as "So Serious". I honestly don't remember why I made a FurAffinity account, maybe it was so that I could see picture links, I don't know. It wasn't until I moved to West Virginia that I started actually participating in the furry community, starting with writing my own story series based off of a Sex Fighting based Role Playing system called Lands of Luste. I wrote this in my off hours when I was working for a local gas station called SpeedWay. It wasn't until I started working for Ticketmaster that I made the bold offer to write free works for people and a lot of people jumped on it. It gave me a lot of good practice and I'm happy that I did it. A few months later I was making a commission price list and people were contacting me about doing work for them. Now I write full time almost exclusively for the furry community, though when other people outside of these websites contact me I absolutely jump on it. I've had twists and turns, bends and falls, but all of those have made me a better writer and better commissionee. I've learned the hard way that client satisfaction is the most important thing, even more important than reputation AND my opinions for a story.
For those that have stuck with me all this time, I want to thank you. For those that have left and come back, I want to thank you too. It's been quite a wild 10 years from role player to full time writer. I still do love rping though, so if you want to feel free to contact me and we'll see if we can hook things up. For everyone else, I hope to one day work for you and I appreciate the support, faves, and watches.
Explanation of Sex Fighting
Posted 9 years agoWhat is Sex Fighting?
It isn't an unreasonable question at all and if you're on my watch list then you likely already know what it is. Many stories about sex fighting have been written and drawn from Carnal Combat down to standard Hentai, but Sex Fighting can be a lot of things to a lot of different people.
To some Sex Fighting is a contest to see who's better at sexual activities between two or more people. This can be done in any real way where the first to climax is the loser. Typically the loser of a match like this submits sexually to the winner where said winner can use the loser for any kind of sex that they want. Sometimes this can be humiliating for the loser, sometimes it can be an amazing experience. It's really up to the winner to decide how hard and bad the results end up being.
Another type of Sex Fighting is standard boxing/brawling/mma/wrestling where the fight is really just a normal fight, but has a twist to it. Again the loser has to submit their body to the will of the winner, but in this scenario the fight may or may not involve strikes to sexual areas (example: punch to the boobs or knee to the groin. Typical things that would be looked down on or disallowed in normal fights).
There are countless other styles of sex fighting out there, but these are really the most often. Why am I mentioning this? Well, a new fighting league has opened up and just completed their first tournament. I wanted to reach out to people on my list to see if anyone would be interested in joining. It's called the EFG which stands for Erotic Fighting Group. Of course there are many sex fighting leagues so you may be asking what sets this apart from the others. This one uses a dice rolling system like World of Darkness, or Dungeons and Dragons, in order to further the rping experience. Where other leagues work solely on rping skill and talent, this one matches that up with having a solid system so that nobody can simply godmod, or power game their character into champion status. You form a character sheet and use that to boost your rolls in order to try and win your fights while matching up your rping (if you even want to rp) to the rolling results. If that sounds interesting to you then check it out. Just follow the link. http://www.furaffinity.net/user/ero.....cfightinggroup
It isn't an unreasonable question at all and if you're on my watch list then you likely already know what it is. Many stories about sex fighting have been written and drawn from Carnal Combat down to standard Hentai, but Sex Fighting can be a lot of things to a lot of different people.
To some Sex Fighting is a contest to see who's better at sexual activities between two or more people. This can be done in any real way where the first to climax is the loser. Typically the loser of a match like this submits sexually to the winner where said winner can use the loser for any kind of sex that they want. Sometimes this can be humiliating for the loser, sometimes it can be an amazing experience. It's really up to the winner to decide how hard and bad the results end up being.
Another type of Sex Fighting is standard boxing/brawling/mma/wrestling where the fight is really just a normal fight, but has a twist to it. Again the loser has to submit their body to the will of the winner, but in this scenario the fight may or may not involve strikes to sexual areas (example: punch to the boobs or knee to the groin. Typical things that would be looked down on or disallowed in normal fights).
There are countless other styles of sex fighting out there, but these are really the most often. Why am I mentioning this? Well, a new fighting league has opened up and just completed their first tournament. I wanted to reach out to people on my list to see if anyone would be interested in joining. It's called the EFG which stands for Erotic Fighting Group. Of course there are many sex fighting leagues so you may be asking what sets this apart from the others. This one uses a dice rolling system like World of Darkness, or Dungeons and Dragons, in order to further the rping experience. Where other leagues work solely on rping skill and talent, this one matches that up with having a solid system so that nobody can simply godmod, or power game their character into champion status. You form a character sheet and use that to boost your rolls in order to try and win your fights while matching up your rping (if you even want to rp) to the rolling results. If that sounds interesting to you then check it out. Just follow the link. http://www.furaffinity.net/user/ero.....cfightinggroup
Character Role Call Meme
Posted 10 years agoI usually don't do meme things, but I saw this one posted on 
lapres journal and thought that I'd fill it out.
Feel free to use this form and do the same if you want. =) Just make sure that all characters are YOURS, your copy right, your ownership. Do not use other peoples characters or art without permission as it takes the fun of creating characters right out of the picture. :(
Feel free to add or take away bits and pieces to fit your characters! I'd love to see what you do with this, so link back to me so I can see! :D
The basics!
How many Original Characters (OC) do you have?: 5 Primary, 1 Shared
Of those OC's, do you have a Fursona (a representation of yourself)?: No, none of my characters represent me individually, but all of them are taken from myself as aspects of my total personality
Right! Now lets go to your characters, copy and paste this for as many characters as you want to disclose!
Character Name: Wolf
Species: White Wolf
Age: Unknown
Height: 8'3"
Gender: Male
Body type: Heavily Muscular/Thick Fur
Sexual Preference, if any: Bi leaning towards Straight
Together/Mated with someone?: It actually depends on the continuity that I'm playing him in. In some cases he has one mate and in others he has multiple, and in the main one he has none as of yet.
NSFW Art Okay?: Sure, go for it.
Basic Background History: Wolf was locked in a fighting pit at a young age by his pack so that they could throw fighters down at him and teach him to fight defensively as a means of survival. Now that he travels around as an adventurer he uses this brutal fighting style to try and help people.
Reference Images or Sheet: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/13673584/
Personality: Despite his rough uprising and dark bloodline Wolf tends to be a nicer type of person. He's giving, friendly, and very kind to those that are nice to him. He is a fighter and above all a wild animal so he tends to wear his emotions on his sleeve.
Character Name: Kiadra
Species: Egyptian Lioness
Age: Unknown (in her twenties)
Height: 5'6"
Gender: Female
Body type: Thin/Lean/Flexible
Sexual Preference, if any: Straight with Lesbian Experiences
Together/Mated with someone?: She was once, but she was abandoned by her lover leaving her heart broken and vowing to stay single.
NSFW Art Okay?: Yeah, no problem.
Basic Background History: Growing up in Egypt as a child wasn't easy, but when she grew up she traveled far to the east and learned MANY different styles of Kung Fu until she mastered those arts. She studied a few other martial styles as well so that she could learn to identify them, but knows more of their history than practical uses. Now her duty is to monitor Wolf and make sure that he stays out of trouble and doesn't hurt others.
Reference Images or Sheet: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/16321682/ (yes those are stripes. Hieroglyphics show that lions in Egypt had stripes)
Personality: At first meet Kiadra is very cold and rude, but deeper down she uses that to push others away because she fears being hurt again. Once those layers are pulled back she can show herself as being a fun, and happy feline who is deadly loyal to those she gets close to.
Character Name: Rene
Species: Queen Snake (Naga/Lamia)
Age: Unknown (impossible to determine)
Height: 20' At full length, 6' Standing
Gender: Female
Body type: Busty/ Curvy/ Alluring
Sexual Preference, if any: Any
Together/Mated with someone?: She's only mated to her job.
NSFW Art Okay?: Yeah, no problem.
Basic Background History: Having been born into her position she's taken up the mantle of her career rather well. Owning a brothel/whore house leave her very busy, but she doesn't need to get out much when she can provide willing gentlemen with their every desire using her more than willing girls to satisfy such clients.
Reference Images or Sheet: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18268927/
Personality: Rene is very motherly and protective of her girls (employee's, not daughters), and strives to provide them with their every need as well as try and match them up with potential clients that happen by.
Character Name: Nyle
Species: River Dragoness
Age: Undisclosed
Height: 7'7"
Gender: Female
Body type: Busty/ Medium Muscular build
Sexual Preference, if any: None (as in none survive)
Together/Mated with someone?: She was mated to someone once, but realized that her mate's reliance on her would be only end poorly and left her mate behind.
NSFW Art Okay?: Yeah, no problem.
Basic Background History: Born with a natural power over hydro-kinesis, Nyle was tasked with the duty of watching over certain rivers. After realizing the frailty of those around her she decided that they were not worthy of what they'd been given and decided to rise up against them, killing those that fought back. After this she goes into hiding, building up her army and her forces with special combat training so that when the day arrives for her to unleash this army upon her enemies she can stand tall and watch the world burn around her.
Reference Images or Sheet: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18393267/
Personality: Nyle is by all means a sociopath. She has no kindness towards those she considers to be under her (which is everyone) and sees every challenge against a person as being solved in the simplest way possible (with murder). It's unsure just how old she is or how long she's been around, but some legends even indicate that she might have been the person who introduces the concept of violence to the "lesser races" as a means to allow them to kill one another so she wouldn't have to. Shows loyalty as long as it benefits her.
Character Name: Sinn
Species: Black Jackal (not anubian)
Age: Unknown
Height: 5'11"
Gender: Male
Body type: Tall/Medium Built/ Non-muscular
Sexual Preference, if any: Straight
Together/Mated with someone?: No, and very uninterested in others sexually.
NSFW Art Okay?: Yeah, no problem.
Basic Background History: Born as one of the many many descendants of the gods of death he functions as a private investigator in order to locate the souls of the recently dead in order to take them to "their final resting place". Due to his high proficiency in this job Sinn works entirely in what is known as "extreme death cases" which to him basically translates to "cleaning up the mess left behind by people brutally murdering one another".
Reference Images or Sheet: (None as of yet)
Personality: Having done his job for a very long time with hardly any break at all Sinn has been left with a huge emotional disconnect between him and those around him. He lives every day witnessing the worst that people are able to do to one another and due to this has lost all faith in mortals entirely. He believes very specific tenants that he holds dear, "Everyone is capable of murder" and "Everyone Will Die Eventually" which has left him cold and hate-filled. Starting to believe that the potential to sin is a sin in itself.
I have other smaller side characters, but most don't even actually have names as their designed to be more background designed.
lapres journal and thought that I'd fill it out.Feel free to use this form and do the same if you want. =) Just make sure that all characters are YOURS, your copy right, your ownership. Do not use other peoples characters or art without permission as it takes the fun of creating characters right out of the picture. :(
Feel free to add or take away bits and pieces to fit your characters! I'd love to see what you do with this, so link back to me so I can see! :D
The basics!
How many Original Characters (OC) do you have?: 5 Primary, 1 Shared
Of those OC's, do you have a Fursona (a representation of yourself)?: No, none of my characters represent me individually, but all of them are taken from myself as aspects of my total personality
Right! Now lets go to your characters, copy and paste this for as many characters as you want to disclose!
Character Name: Wolf
Species: White Wolf
Age: Unknown
Height: 8'3"
Gender: Male
Body type: Heavily Muscular/Thick Fur
Sexual Preference, if any: Bi leaning towards Straight
Together/Mated with someone?: It actually depends on the continuity that I'm playing him in. In some cases he has one mate and in others he has multiple, and in the main one he has none as of yet.
NSFW Art Okay?: Sure, go for it.
Basic Background History: Wolf was locked in a fighting pit at a young age by his pack so that they could throw fighters down at him and teach him to fight defensively as a means of survival. Now that he travels around as an adventurer he uses this brutal fighting style to try and help people.
Reference Images or Sheet: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/13673584/
Personality: Despite his rough uprising and dark bloodline Wolf tends to be a nicer type of person. He's giving, friendly, and very kind to those that are nice to him. He is a fighter and above all a wild animal so he tends to wear his emotions on his sleeve.
Character Name: Kiadra
Species: Egyptian Lioness
Age: Unknown (in her twenties)
Height: 5'6"
Gender: Female
Body type: Thin/Lean/Flexible
Sexual Preference, if any: Straight with Lesbian Experiences
Together/Mated with someone?: She was once, but she was abandoned by her lover leaving her heart broken and vowing to stay single.
NSFW Art Okay?: Yeah, no problem.
Basic Background History: Growing up in Egypt as a child wasn't easy, but when she grew up she traveled far to the east and learned MANY different styles of Kung Fu until she mastered those arts. She studied a few other martial styles as well so that she could learn to identify them, but knows more of their history than practical uses. Now her duty is to monitor Wolf and make sure that he stays out of trouble and doesn't hurt others.
Reference Images or Sheet: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/16321682/ (yes those are stripes. Hieroglyphics show that lions in Egypt had stripes)
Personality: At first meet Kiadra is very cold and rude, but deeper down she uses that to push others away because she fears being hurt again. Once those layers are pulled back she can show herself as being a fun, and happy feline who is deadly loyal to those she gets close to.
Character Name: Rene
Species: Queen Snake (Naga/Lamia)
Age: Unknown (impossible to determine)
Height: 20' At full length, 6' Standing
Gender: Female
Body type: Busty/ Curvy/ Alluring
Sexual Preference, if any: Any
Together/Mated with someone?: She's only mated to her job.
NSFW Art Okay?: Yeah, no problem.
Basic Background History: Having been born into her position she's taken up the mantle of her career rather well. Owning a brothel/whore house leave her very busy, but she doesn't need to get out much when she can provide willing gentlemen with their every desire using her more than willing girls to satisfy such clients.
Reference Images or Sheet: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18268927/
Personality: Rene is very motherly and protective of her girls (employee's, not daughters), and strives to provide them with their every need as well as try and match them up with potential clients that happen by.
Character Name: Nyle
Species: River Dragoness
Age: Undisclosed
Height: 7'7"
Gender: Female
Body type: Busty/ Medium Muscular build
Sexual Preference, if any: None (as in none survive)
Together/Mated with someone?: She was mated to someone once, but realized that her mate's reliance on her would be only end poorly and left her mate behind.
NSFW Art Okay?: Yeah, no problem.
Basic Background History: Born with a natural power over hydro-kinesis, Nyle was tasked with the duty of watching over certain rivers. After realizing the frailty of those around her she decided that they were not worthy of what they'd been given and decided to rise up against them, killing those that fought back. After this she goes into hiding, building up her army and her forces with special combat training so that when the day arrives for her to unleash this army upon her enemies she can stand tall and watch the world burn around her.
Reference Images or Sheet: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18393267/
Personality: Nyle is by all means a sociopath. She has no kindness towards those she considers to be under her (which is everyone) and sees every challenge against a person as being solved in the simplest way possible (with murder). It's unsure just how old she is or how long she's been around, but some legends even indicate that she might have been the person who introduces the concept of violence to the "lesser races" as a means to allow them to kill one another so she wouldn't have to. Shows loyalty as long as it benefits her.
Character Name: Sinn
Species: Black Jackal (not anubian)
Age: Unknown
Height: 5'11"
Gender: Male
Body type: Tall/Medium Built/ Non-muscular
Sexual Preference, if any: Straight
Together/Mated with someone?: No, and very uninterested in others sexually.
NSFW Art Okay?: Yeah, no problem.
Basic Background History: Born as one of the many many descendants of the gods of death he functions as a private investigator in order to locate the souls of the recently dead in order to take them to "their final resting place". Due to his high proficiency in this job Sinn works entirely in what is known as "extreme death cases" which to him basically translates to "cleaning up the mess left behind by people brutally murdering one another".
Reference Images or Sheet: (None as of yet)
Personality: Having done his job for a very long time with hardly any break at all Sinn has been left with a huge emotional disconnect between him and those around him. He lives every day witnessing the worst that people are able to do to one another and due to this has lost all faith in mortals entirely. He believes very specific tenants that he holds dear, "Everyone is capable of murder" and "Everyone Will Die Eventually" which has left him cold and hate-filled. Starting to believe that the potential to sin is a sin in itself.
I have other smaller side characters, but most don't even actually have names as their designed to be more background designed.
Rules of RPing
Posted 12 years agoPersonally speaking, any game that you play needs to have rules, if it's a board game, or a video game, it needs to follow a specific criteria. This is no different for rping online. If you're going to play then you should understand and know the rules that you're playing with. That is why I'm posting my full length set of rules that I grew up with as an rper so that everyone else can know exactly what they're getting involved in when they rp with me. I follow these rules, and I fully expect anyone else rping with me to follow these rules as well. If you like the following rules then please feel free to link this journal or copy and paste it into your own journal. All I ask is that you keep all the rules if you do. Otherwise there's no consistency.
Power RPing
Power RPing is when you just assume that your opponent is far weaker than yourself, and thus you find it OK to declare hits. This is definately a no-no.
God RPing
God RPing is when you claim to be an Immortal and thus cannot die from being wounded in battle (I don't see anything wrong in the "Can't die from old age" immortals though), have infinite or close to infinite power, and can do whatever you please as you control the power of nature. Now, most internet locations are a no-Game-Master realm, and by appointing yourself to the spot of an immortal you are basically turning yourself into a GM. Not an admirable thing.
Good Grammar and Spelling
I know that we aren't all the best typists in the world, but we could at least try! If you don't know how to spell a word for sure, put an (sp?) after the end, to modestly show that you're not sure on it's spelling. Accents and grammar styling are a great part of RPing that bring the characters to life, and I have nothing against that, but that should stop when you begin doing actions etc., since there is no action language.
Action-Speach Separation
We all know that they are out there... The folks who type "Stands up hey whats going on? then I sit back down". You should have a way to separate your speach from your actions, using ~ or * or # or anything... It just makes your messages more pleasant to read.
IC-OOC Separation
I think it's pretty basic that you should have a way of separating your In Character messages from your Out Of Character messages. I have seen few who fail to do this, but I thought I'd put it on here anyway.
Locationing
Unless you specifically say that you have somehow split yourself in two, you cannot be talking to two different people in two different places. Also, if you are talking to two people, it's not too believable to be in tears with one person and having a normal chat with the other.
Bunnying
A term that I picked up on another RP chat site. Bunnying is changing yourself into a Game Master by choosing what someone else does... and that's rude and impossible (Unless that person has agreed to a mind control RP I suppose)
Combat Manners
Combat is a very precise action, and propper fighting manner is under hot debate by RPers everywhere. But, let me explain the fighting manner of myself and others I play with. In every message of a fight RPing, you should place the following things: Your distance from the enemy/enemies, a detailed explanation of your stance, what is in either of your hands, what is on your body, and if there are any obsticles between you and your opponent. Now, that was just a fight message without an attack. This would be an attack message... You would explain all of the things from the message without an attack, but adding: What angle you are attacking from, what limbs you are attacking with, and how fast your attack is, and where it is aimed to land. Now, the defending person must explain all from the no-attack message, along with: How the attack was gaurded, dodged, etc., If you merely fled or do a counter attack (The counter attack should be explained in the same ways as an attack).
Homedo Attacks
Homedo is an art form in which, instead of defending, you attack before being attacked. Let's say this: If you had a spear and your oppenent had a dagger, and he said that he leaped at you with a stab to the chest area, you could HOMEDO that attack by saying that you thrust your spear forward in defense, and, if your oppenent didn't withdraw his attack he would be impaled... Thus you give your enemy and chance to consider his options and create a new strategy... Homedo is NOT an excuse to declare hits.
Meteo Attacks
Meteo attacks are complicated yet flowing combos, in which, in a single message you name more than one attack saying "If this first attack lands, then the rest shall follow in suit". But, if your opponent dodges or blocks the first attack in a meteo combo, you must be prepared that you cannot stop a meteo in the middle making dodging difficult if not impossible.
Dodging and Blocking
To dodge or block you must first keep in mind what all of your other limbs are doing to see if a dodge or block is possible. Phasing, nexusing, and clone replacement is rather cheap and is very close to Power Rping, and thus, I wouldn't suggest it. Don't forget that, in RP, there is no real risk in combat since characters are imaginary, and thus combat is mostly a show or presentation. To make the show more interesting, please don't dodge or block EVERY attack. If your limbs are locked up, take a hit gracefully. You don't have to be a weakling to maybe dodge, but not fast enough, so that you get grazed along the side or your arm get's cut into when your opponent was aiming at your chest, etc.
Mortal Wound Healing or Character Revivals
I know that many people are very attached to their characters, and it's no one's place to say when your character dies but you. BUT, if your character is mortally wounded it would take a very large amount of magic to heal him (Which goes along with the next rule, so pay attention), and, thus, healings of this size should not take place every day. If you character is dead, it is best that s/he remains dead for quite some time, so that you punish YOURSELF for that character's death... And, if that character is revived by magic, it should happen no more than once a year, if even that! People get very annoyed when someone they spent hard training to defeat is alive and walking around the next day without a scratch.
Strength Levels
Characters should not be able to become too strong, because that means they are inching closer and closer to Power and God RPing. You should not be able to cut down two trees with a single arm hammer, you should not be able to cast a catastrophic spell in two turns, and you should not be able to cast as many spells as you wish, because spells eat up mana which takes time to refill. If you are a healer, you must make some kind of sacrifice to heal someone. Most often the sacrifice is their own precious mana, which is ok, but you should not be able to fully heal someone in seconds and only use up 1/1000 of your mana. You should be able to heal one deep gash per day, one mortal wound per month, and should only be able to revive someone from death once every 6 months. This is just a rough time estemation, and can be tweaked, but I think I've made my point clear.
Wannabe RP
Wannabe RPers are those that take a character out of a book, movie, video game, TV show, or some other type of media and play that character. Now, I have nothing against wannabe RPers PERSONALLY, after all, there are many chat rooms that feature MOSTLY wannabe RPers... Gundam Wing sites... Final Fantasy sites... but that is where they should REMAIN. First of all, such characters are trademarked, and most people who have original characters don't see wannabes as the most artistic people. This also goes along the lines of quoting modern music or naming a video game or book etc. in character.
Departure
Have an emergency plan for your character's departure from a room as soon as you enter. It's rude to just leave with an OOC message like "Got to go! Bye!" Instead, I'm sure most people would prefer a message that describes how that person's character happened to leave... Instead of having to make it up themself and feel guilty for bunnying.
Player Knowledge
If you are told something that was labeled OOC, then you must NOT let your character have access to this information. The most difficult thing about Role Play is keeping yourself seperate from your character, to develope on his/her own. If someone says OOC that they might make an attempt to kill your character, that is not enough reason for your character to raise his/her defenses. After all, what does your character know? S/he is supposed to be completely ignorant. It's all about being a good actor.
Power RPing
Power RPing is when you just assume that your opponent is far weaker than yourself, and thus you find it OK to declare hits. This is definately a no-no.
God RPing
God RPing is when you claim to be an Immortal and thus cannot die from being wounded in battle (I don't see anything wrong in the "Can't die from old age" immortals though), have infinite or close to infinite power, and can do whatever you please as you control the power of nature. Now, most internet locations are a no-Game-Master realm, and by appointing yourself to the spot of an immortal you are basically turning yourself into a GM. Not an admirable thing.
Good Grammar and Spelling
I know that we aren't all the best typists in the world, but we could at least try! If you don't know how to spell a word for sure, put an (sp?) after the end, to modestly show that you're not sure on it's spelling. Accents and grammar styling are a great part of RPing that bring the characters to life, and I have nothing against that, but that should stop when you begin doing actions etc., since there is no action language.
Action-Speach Separation
We all know that they are out there... The folks who type "Stands up hey whats going on? then I sit back down". You should have a way to separate your speach from your actions, using ~ or * or # or anything... It just makes your messages more pleasant to read.
IC-OOC Separation
I think it's pretty basic that you should have a way of separating your In Character messages from your Out Of Character messages. I have seen few who fail to do this, but I thought I'd put it on here anyway.
Locationing
Unless you specifically say that you have somehow split yourself in two, you cannot be talking to two different people in two different places. Also, if you are talking to two people, it's not too believable to be in tears with one person and having a normal chat with the other.
Bunnying
A term that I picked up on another RP chat site. Bunnying is changing yourself into a Game Master by choosing what someone else does... and that's rude and impossible (Unless that person has agreed to a mind control RP I suppose)
Combat Manners
Combat is a very precise action, and propper fighting manner is under hot debate by RPers everywhere. But, let me explain the fighting manner of myself and others I play with. In every message of a fight RPing, you should place the following things: Your distance from the enemy/enemies, a detailed explanation of your stance, what is in either of your hands, what is on your body, and if there are any obsticles between you and your opponent. Now, that was just a fight message without an attack. This would be an attack message... You would explain all of the things from the message without an attack, but adding: What angle you are attacking from, what limbs you are attacking with, and how fast your attack is, and where it is aimed to land. Now, the defending person must explain all from the no-attack message, along with: How the attack was gaurded, dodged, etc., If you merely fled or do a counter attack (The counter attack should be explained in the same ways as an attack).
Homedo Attacks
Homedo is an art form in which, instead of defending, you attack before being attacked. Let's say this: If you had a spear and your oppenent had a dagger, and he said that he leaped at you with a stab to the chest area, you could HOMEDO that attack by saying that you thrust your spear forward in defense, and, if your oppenent didn't withdraw his attack he would be impaled... Thus you give your enemy and chance to consider his options and create a new strategy... Homedo is NOT an excuse to declare hits.
Meteo Attacks
Meteo attacks are complicated yet flowing combos, in which, in a single message you name more than one attack saying "If this first attack lands, then the rest shall follow in suit". But, if your opponent dodges or blocks the first attack in a meteo combo, you must be prepared that you cannot stop a meteo in the middle making dodging difficult if not impossible.
Dodging and Blocking
To dodge or block you must first keep in mind what all of your other limbs are doing to see if a dodge or block is possible. Phasing, nexusing, and clone replacement is rather cheap and is very close to Power Rping, and thus, I wouldn't suggest it. Don't forget that, in RP, there is no real risk in combat since characters are imaginary, and thus combat is mostly a show or presentation. To make the show more interesting, please don't dodge or block EVERY attack. If your limbs are locked up, take a hit gracefully. You don't have to be a weakling to maybe dodge, but not fast enough, so that you get grazed along the side or your arm get's cut into when your opponent was aiming at your chest, etc.
Mortal Wound Healing or Character Revivals
I know that many people are very attached to their characters, and it's no one's place to say when your character dies but you. BUT, if your character is mortally wounded it would take a very large amount of magic to heal him (Which goes along with the next rule, so pay attention), and, thus, healings of this size should not take place every day. If you character is dead, it is best that s/he remains dead for quite some time, so that you punish YOURSELF for that character's death... And, if that character is revived by magic, it should happen no more than once a year, if even that! People get very annoyed when someone they spent hard training to defeat is alive and walking around the next day without a scratch.
Strength Levels
Characters should not be able to become too strong, because that means they are inching closer and closer to Power and God RPing. You should not be able to cut down two trees with a single arm hammer, you should not be able to cast a catastrophic spell in two turns, and you should not be able to cast as many spells as you wish, because spells eat up mana which takes time to refill. If you are a healer, you must make some kind of sacrifice to heal someone. Most often the sacrifice is their own precious mana, which is ok, but you should not be able to fully heal someone in seconds and only use up 1/1000 of your mana. You should be able to heal one deep gash per day, one mortal wound per month, and should only be able to revive someone from death once every 6 months. This is just a rough time estemation, and can be tweaked, but I think I've made my point clear.
Wannabe RP
Wannabe RPers are those that take a character out of a book, movie, video game, TV show, or some other type of media and play that character. Now, I have nothing against wannabe RPers PERSONALLY, after all, there are many chat rooms that feature MOSTLY wannabe RPers... Gundam Wing sites... Final Fantasy sites... but that is where they should REMAIN. First of all, such characters are trademarked, and most people who have original characters don't see wannabes as the most artistic people. This also goes along the lines of quoting modern music or naming a video game or book etc. in character.
Departure
Have an emergency plan for your character's departure from a room as soon as you enter. It's rude to just leave with an OOC message like "Got to go! Bye!" Instead, I'm sure most people would prefer a message that describes how that person's character happened to leave... Instead of having to make it up themself and feel guilty for bunnying.
Player Knowledge
If you are told something that was labeled OOC, then you must NOT let your character have access to this information. The most difficult thing about Role Play is keeping yourself seperate from your character, to develope on his/her own. If someone says OOC that they might make an attempt to kill your character, that is not enough reason for your character to raise his/her defenses. After all, what does your character know? S/he is supposed to be completely ignorant. It's all about being a good actor.
