Role Playing Guide

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What is role playing?:

Role playing is a lot like writing a story - except everyone is writing it together. At the start of a role play everyone creates a character. Everyone then take turns writing the story from the perspective of their character. The characters often interact and the story lines usually end up very exciting.
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Roleplaying in the Flying Duchy of Glanurchy:

Here in Glanurchy we're part of Novatainia, and so to keep things simple you can have multiple characters on the one forum account. Just introduce new characters in the Character Creation subforum. You should only need to register a different account for a character if, for special reasons, you want to keep your identity secret in connection to the character. If you do this, you must pm Andreas the Wise with your true details.

Every post you make should be in character for one of your characters. Roleplaying here is not quite like an expedition - you jist play your characters. It is convention not to play other people's characters unless you have their permission to use it. It's more appropriate to make a two or three sentence statement from your character than to make a post of multiple characters talking. If you need a conversation, use two of your characters.

Where it's not obvious, please indicate which character you're using at the start of the post.
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NPCs

You may introduce NPCs as needed and discard them as needed. NPCs are just minor characters that help fill out the world. It's assumed that any businesses based in FDoG have an NPC shopkeeper so other players can buy from them at any time.
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When in doubt, Ask!:

If you would like to make a big storyline twist, use advanced magic, kill another person, etc. Pm the RP Master (Andreas the Wise). Even if something as simple as a historical reference can cause problems. You can't always just make stuff up, because it may create conflicts with pre-existing stuff. And if you're going to RP one of the races in the isles (and feel welcome to), please talk to Andreas first to get a basic idea of how that race works.
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RP Economy:

To encourage spending, Glanurchy operates under the RP economy like the rest of Novatainia. Basically, that means if a shop exists to sell something (even if it's based outside the Duchy), you have to buy it to use it in RP. If the shop's from far away, feel free to buy it with your overall account and not worry about roleplaying the individual character getting it.
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Location Conflicts:

If you are waiting for someone to reply in a thread it may seem like you are almost trapped, unable to post elsewhere until they have replied to you. However, it doesn't matter if you are in two locations at once! Just pretend they happened at different times, it doesn't all have to make perfect sense. Roleplaying in several threads at a time is perfectly ok, just keep it civil.

Also, if you in Jail you are not allowed to post anywhere but in the Jail thread. This can cause some confusing storylines (thrown in Jail in one thread, while still doing something in another).... but meh.
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OOC Clarification

To keep the roleplaying from getting unnecessarily bogged down, most forums are IC only. It is permissible to add a small OOC comment at the end of an IC post for clarification, but no long threads of OOC posts. The exception to this is the Court of the Duke, and the various subforums for specific reasons (Archaeological Institute, Director's Office, Manuel's Piracy Competition).
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Summary Rules:

1) You can't make anyone else do something
2) This isn't really like an expedition. This is a nation of people living and discussing and working together. Sure there will be storylines but keep it won't necessarily flow nicely or make a ton of sense.
3) The islands are fantasy - pirates and mages and the like. No machine guns here, preferably.
4) Business owners must have an NPC that can help run their business. This allows people to visit when the owner is away.
5) One account, multiple characters. If you absolutely must create a character that's secret, you can do so, but it'll mess up your money from posting, believe me.
6) Only post IC, except where otherwise signed (Court of the Duke, Archaeological Institute, Manuels Piracy Competition etc)

With special thanks to Enalia.