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Role play is best described, in the sense of the Warriors Phenomenon, as a Forum-based collection of collaborative fiction creators.
A high quality description of the Play-by-Post style can be found at Wikipedia.
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Overview of the Warriors RP Fandom
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There are a multitude of games in the Warriors Fandom. Role Playing is arguably the Life Blood of the Internet Community surrounding the series, and part of the reason it is so popular.
Classifying these games is a difficult process, but using several very broad categories, with smaller sub-types (of which many games actually belong to more than one) it can be done.
Strict CanonEdit
Strict Canon Games are those that adhere exactly to the environment of the books, refusing to include items that are not explicitly in the book series.
Modified CanonEdit
Modified Canon Games are those that use the original books as a reference, but might include such items as a varied Warriors Code, new Clans, alternate Clan names, or a new territory for the cats to live in.
These games can be sub-typed into 'Alternate Clans', 'Alternate Territories', 'Alternate History', and 'Alternate Code'.
Original CanonEdit
Original Canon games are those that permit the use of characters from the Original works to be Role Played by Members.
These games can actually be sub-typed into 'Strict' and 'Modified' canon.
The Golden Rules of Role PlayEdit
No Powergaming/Godmoding/TwinkingEdit
- DEFINITIONS
- You do something to another person's character without their consent and without ICA=ICC reasonings
- You decide how another person's character acts or reacts and pose it for them.
- When fighting/sparring, your character is "invincible" and takes no hits (this is specifically godmodding).
Almost universally, through all the Warriors Games, anti-Powergaming/anti-Godmoding/anti-Twinking rules are in place. Rules to prevent this behavior keeps one player from abusing another through their posts, and gives the ability to attend to such issues to game administrators.
ConsentEdit
While consent rules are not so wide-spread as anti-Powerplaying ones, the rules are related.
- DEFINITION
- Any and all players involved and affected by a bit of Role Play must be willing to participate in it.
Most games work under rules of consent, without explicitly having consent rules. Consent rules most strongly apply to plots or threads that have strong themes, put characters at risk of death or grave injury, and other such drastic events.
Typically, games that hold 'World Plots' or 'Prophecies' consider consent to be effected by worldwide events to be implied in a player's having joined the game, but still respect their right to be directly involved with the plot events only with their own consent.
ICA=ICCEdit
- DEFINITION
- In character actions lead to in character consequences.
Most games operate under this rule, without directly having it in their rules. The simplest way to interpret it is that your character's actions are consent for the results of those actions.
This rule prevents abuses (such as attacks on leaders) from going unpunished because the player who did the attack does not give consent to be kicked from the Clan. Taking the action against the leader can be considered ICA=ICC Consent for the results of that action.
Role Player TerminologyEdit
Technical Play-by-Post TermsEdit
Board: As forum, refers to the website that runs forum software that is used for executing the Role Play that the players engage in.
Forum: The website that features threads, replies, and boards. Sometimes this refers directly to a sub-board on a greater forum.
Thread: A set of posts and replies on a forum.
Topic: Another word for thread. A set of posts and replies on a forum.
Reply: What is made when you add a new post to a thread/topic.
General RP TermsEdit
Player: The person behind the keyboard. Many individuals replace this word with ones like 'Actor' or 'Typist'.
Player Character: (Abbreviated PC) A character played by a Player.
Non-player Character: (Abbreviated NPC) A character that does not serve a major role and is only appearing as a bit part. Typically played by the individual who started a thread, or by a Game Administrator. Frequently, in all but the case of plot-related NPCs, they do not have character sheets. They usually are described in some cases.
ooc/bic: Ooc stands for "out of character", and is used when commenting as yourself, not as your character. Bic is used when you have just said someting out of character and want to say something as your character; it stands for "back in character".
Charrie: Charrie is basically a shortened term of Character.
Char: Another shortened version of Character
OC: An even more popular term for one's "Originated Character"
