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ROLEPLAY RP

General Guidelines: Roleplay

What is Roleplay?
Roleplay is something which can be very tricky to describe. When asked, many
people might say that roleplaying is creating a character and interacting with
other characters as you go about your day, doing whatever that character does.
This is simply one half of what roleplaying is. To find the rest, simply break
the word roleplay into its base words, and you can now guess that you will be
playing a role. The importance of this is for roleplayers to understand that
their character is not who they are, and what they might do is not what you
might do - all of which leads us into the realm of character disassociation,
which has its own very important guidelines topic to review more information.

Good RP vs Bad RP
Strictly speaking, there is no set scale for what can be considered good
roleplay or bad roleplay. As an old mentor of mine told me, there is no good or
bad RP, only RP and breaches of RP. For more on that, take a look at the other
roleplay guidelines concerning powergaming, godmodding, etc. The overall idea,
however, is that there are many different flavors of roleplay, and each of them
can be enjoyable to someone. Some players enjoy emoting in paragraphs all day,
some enjoy the militaristic style, and some even enjoy prison roleplay. Do not
worry overly about good or bad roleplay. Take part in whatever fits your fancy
- within LotJ's rules and roleplay guidelines.

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