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Likes do not count.

Do not reblog more than once, please!

These are not eggs, they are full grown.

I’m gonna TRY to pick one that seems like it would fit with your character.

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No returns once the Digimon has been dropped off.

Also, please give me some time to send you one.

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Collecting characters for Masterlist - Reblog if you are a Vampire Diaries RP blog.

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Collecting characters for Masterlist - Reblog if you are a Supernatural RP blog.

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Collecting characters for Masterlist - Reblog if you are a Marvel RP blog.

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Collecting characters for Masterlist - Reblog if you are a DC RP blog.

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The most in-depth 30 day character development meme you'll ever find.

Because I wanted to see something that really got into the nitty gritty details of a character.

I tried to organize it into sections and equalize the amount of writing you’d be doing each day, but obviously that’s going to vary from character to character. Good luck, and may the Force be with you.

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A help for creating characters: Alignments.

Have you ever played Dungeons and Dragons? No? Well, let me introduce you to a little thing that helps a surprising lot when it comes to develop characters. I’m talking about the alignments.

The alignment is something that appears mainly in the roleplaying games based on Dungeons and Dragons, and it refers to the ethic and moral perspective of characters and societies in game.

It’s based on two axis. Morality, from Good to Bad, and Ethics, from Law to Chaos. Between these we have the Neutrality, which indicates that the character isn’t inclined to any of these. The result is this:

                                                   Moral Axis

                         |  Lawful Good  | Neutral Good  |  Chaotic Good  |

Ethic axis         | Lawful Neutral |      Neutral      | Chaotic Neutral |

                        |    Lawful Evil     |   Neutral Evil   |    Chaotic Evil    |

By giving your character an alignment, you can have a rough sketch of his reaction to moral or ethic problems.

A lawful character has always a code. They will keep their word, respect their honour and judge those who don’t keep their responsibilities. Law implies trust, reliability and perhaps obedience to authority, although this is optional. A lawful character can be lawful because they have a code they never break, even if they don’t answer to any authority. They will be probably stubborn, traditional and judgemental.

A chaotic character is free, flexible, adaptable. They follow their own instincts, prefer new ideas over dogmatic thoughts and don’t have qualms about breaking promises. They will probably stand against any kind of authority, being sometimes selfish and egoistic. Freedom is what they appreciate more tan anything.

A good character tries to protect the others, anyone, whether they know them or not. They worry about every sentient being, usually sacrificing themselves for the Greater Good. Altruism is the word that defines them the best.

An evil character doesn’t care about anyone that isn’t himself. They lack compassion, do wrong to others without remorse, sometimes for their own benefit, sometimes because it’s fun.

Now that we’ve stated the edges of our bidimensional grid, let’s go for the archetypes.

The Lawful Good.

A lawful good character combines honour and the will to help. He’s honest and a nice person. Will act inside the system to try and improve it, taking order wherever they go. They’re determined to fight evil and had a discipline of iron, with a strict code or following the rules of their pertinent authorities. They will probably risk their lives without a thought in order to follow this codes or to do the Greater Good —or maybe both.

The incorruptible policeman, the soldier that turns into a hero by following the rules, or your everyday knight in shining armour willing to save the princess. Captain America from Avengers or John Watson from Sherlock.

The Neutral Good.

This is the best person you’re going to find. They want to help people, and as they’re not particularly inclined to order or chaos, they don’t have a problem if they need to break some rules to do something good. Although they will probably respect the rules of the place they’re in, their will to help is stronger than anything.

People that volunteer with the poor or in general neglect themselves in order to make other people’s life better are neutral good.

The Chaotic Good.

A chaotic good character has a kind heart and a free spirit. They’re generous and act following their conscience, not minding what anyone thinks about them.

They usually fight tyrants and unfair organizations, tried to free the oppressed. They usual travel from place to place, rejecting any kind of authority or bond.

Robin Hood is one of the clearest and best examples of this. Iron Man from Avengers or Han Solo from Star Wars can be taken as a reference as well.

The Lawful Neutral.

This alignment has reliability and honour without going for any moral aspect. This doesn’t mean that a Lawful neutral character is immoral or amoral, but good or bad are secondary for them in front of their code, tradition and/or authority. This are the things they base their lives on, personal ethics or their support to strong and organized governments.

These characters can be soldiers that obey orders blindly or judges that stick always to the established rules. Mycroft Holmes from Sherlock or Nick Fury from Avengers are clearly lawful neutral characters.

The Neutral.

This alignment can be applied to the majority of people out there. However, unless your character has a very hard to define personality, it’s not usual to find main characters with this alignment. This person will do in each moment what they think it’s more appropriate, without preferences. Animals and beings without the ability to reason are classified as neutral as well.

There’s another kind of Neutral, called the True Neutral. This character seems any extreme as something very dangerous, and defends the equilibrium. He tries to keep himself in the middle when facing any kind of conflict. It’s rare to find a character like this, and a good challenge if you’re a brave writer.

An example of True Neutral would be Tom Bombadil from LOTR.

The Chaotic Neutral.

A chaotic neutral character follow their impulses and are strongly individualist. They value their own freedom above everything, but they won’t care about getting other’s freedom. They avoid authorities, hate to be restrained and fight against traditions. 

A chaotic neutral can defend Chaos and try to spread it all over the world, but that’s weird. Normally, this kind of character will do whatever he pleases, living his life as he wants and that’s the end of it. A Chaotic Neutral is one of the easiest characters to roleplay.

A thief, contrabandist or minor criminal in general fits in this category. Clopin from the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean or Tyler Durden from the Fight Club are good examples.

The Lawful Evil.

Almost every politician in the world if you ask me —but this isn’t about my personal opinions.

A lawful evil character is organized and methodic and usually a despot. They care about tradition, loyalty and order, but they don’t care about dignity or life. Rules are important, compassion is not. They will never break a promise, but chances are they won’t make any promises to break.

This kind of character is usually depicted as someone with power. Tyrant kings or cruel soldiers with a high rank on the army fit here. Sometimes they have qualms with killing people with their hands, but that won’t stop them from hiring other people to do it. They usually consider their moral precepts to make them better than other people. Sometimes, a lawful evil character can be the dark counterpart of the lawful good knight, defending Evil with the same intensity.

We can find examples of lawful evil characters in Venom from Spiderman (not the one in the movies, the one in the comics) or in Darth Vader from Star Wars. Magneto from X-Men, when he’s being evil, belongs here as well.

The Neutral Evil.

If the Neutral Good was the best person you could find, the Neutral Evil is the worst. Law of the jungle is their thing, the stronger survives and the rest deserve to be in the bottom of a pit.

A neutral evil character cares about their arse. End of the story. They’re selfish and will do anything to reach their goals. It’s a hardcore version of the Chaotic Neutral, and changing from one alignment to other is usual.

Sometimes, blood thirsty creatures without intelligente, purely instinctive, can be classified as neutral evil. Alien would be an example of this.

Saruman from LOTR or Littlefinger from A Song of Ice and Fire go in this category.

The Chaotic Evil.

Have you listened to “When you’re evil” by Voltaire? Well, that song defines this kind of character very well.

The Chaotic Evil represents unleashed destruction, without any kind of moral or ethic barrier. They are agents of Chaos, wanting to cause havoc no matter what the price is.

Normally this character is depicted as violent and agressive with no other reason than being violent and agressive, but that is a mistake. Being destructive doesn’t mean being stupid. A chaotic evil character doesn’t need to be a brute —and I’m going to point out two of my favourite villains.

The Joker, from Batman, and Jim Moriarty from the BBC adaptation of Sherlock. Clearly chaotic evil characters, and yet classy and clever.

A blood-thirsty monster can be classified as chaotic evil as well, but roleplaying it is not very fun if you intend to run a long term story.

With this we finish this little class. This post, of course, is just a guideline. Characters are deeper than this. Sometimes they don’t fit in any alignment and they’re halfway between one an another, and sometimes they evolve from one alignment to another. But it helps to begin to build a character.

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Group v. Independent Roleplay: Pros and Cons

Here we’ve decided to present some pros and cons of group roleplay and independent roleplay on Tumblr, so that when making a character blog you have some insight deciding which is the option you’d prefer.

This is not to say one is better than the other - different players have different types of roleplay that suit them more, and these brief lists can hopefully help you decide which of these two types suits you.

This is not a reference specifically for the BR roleplay/ask blogs, but for all Tumblr roleplay blogs.

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Pros:

You’re guaranteed people to interact/roleplay with, so your character is bound to have more to do regardless of how popular it is.

You can easily make friends OOC if you choose, finding friendships in the fandom.

There generally won’t be double characters within a group, so you won’t feel competitive.

There will generally be a consistent plot/timeline the group collaborates on, or events to keep busy with.

Cons:

Some amount of OOC drama is inevitable when disagreements about the plot or characters come up. When players don’t get along, they’re essentially stuck with each other while they’re both in the same group.

There are rules and/or admins/some form of authority to follow.

Interaction and/or roleplay is usually exclusive to group members, so you may not be able to interact/roleplay with whoever you want.

There are generally a limited number of roles; without double characters allowed, your ideal character may already be taken.

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Pros:

You’re free to roleplay with whoever you want instead of being exclusive to the group.

You’re free to roleplay however you want without rules/admins/some form of authority. This includes expanding on or altering your character, dictating your own plot/timeline, and setting up whatever roleplays you want with other players.

There are no roles to be filled, so you can play whatever character you want no matter if it already has a blog.

It’s much easier to stay out of OOC drama, and you generally don’t even have to talk to other players OOC if you don’t want to.

Cons:

If your character isn’t very popular, you may not always have a lot to do/many people to play with.

You may feel competitive with other players who share the same character as you.

You may not have as much of a consistent plot/timeline to work with(though you do have the freedom to develop whichever plots you want).

You might be excluded by group roleplayers if group rules don’t permit them to interact/roleplay with you.

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Missing E: Great addon for tumblr, and especially for roleplayers. Go get it, set it up, and enjoy the ease. It adds automatic asktagging, tag wrapping, sidebar slimming, etch.

Do not treat your RP blog like a personal. This clutters up dashes with unnecessary stuff.

Read everything you can find about the character on their pages. And then some (elaborated in link).

Use a non-hyphenated URL. Barring that, track both your URL without the hyphens, squished together, and track it with spaces in place of the hyphens. Either way, track your URL.

Tag your asks. Just do it. It makes finding them easier, especially if you can’t scroll through your entire dash. Edit them, or use Missing E (above).

Cut your posts. Don’t let them get longer than four or five quotes or you’ll stretch the dash. Cut them.

Use Read Mores if you’re entering NSFW ground, or writing an exceedingly long post. Rule of thumb: If you’re under eighteen, don’t smut. Don’t do anything that falls into the sexual side of NSFW. It can get you, the other RPer, or both, into huge legal trouble.

Do. Not. Godmod. Godmodding is where you write your character and your partners. That’s rude. Don’t do it. Don’t specify if the other character gets hit by something. Don’t make yours invincible.

Tag your posts. Use the URL of the other RPer (when threading) to make finding it easier. Tag headcanons with a headcanon tag. Tag face claims with a face claim tag. Tag your posts.

Make greeting posts when people follow. Or, if you’re following them back, wait for them to make a greeting post. But the former is always best.

And don’t RP on other people’s posts. That’s rude.

Find a way to keep track of threads. Some people have a page where they update active threads, others ‘like’ the post to keep track of it (personally, I have each thread in an open tab, and the notes visible, so on refresh, I can see who’s replied. This gets tedious or overwhelming if you have a lot of active threads. Also, with this method, if there’s been no reply for about a month, maybe more, and the RPer is online and nudging hasn’t worked, close the tab and don’t worry.).

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Roleplay tips with Rae

Hello, everyone! I’ve decided to help out some people on my dash, and roleplayers in general, with a few tips. They’ve probably already been passed around, but not everyone gets a chance to see them, so all the better to make more.

Let’s start with some basics

URLs with dashes (Ex. as-sweetasblood and kasugano-tsubaki)

Sometimes the perfect URL you want isn’t available, and you have to stick with using a dash. There’s nothing wrong with this, but it should be noted that DASHES DO NOT SHOW UP IN THE TAGS!

It may be frustrating, and you may feel extremely lazy, but when rping with someone who has a dash in their URL, you should always check there blog to see if they have a tracked tag. It’s better to use this tracked tag so that what you want them to see ACTUALLY shows up in their tracked tags. If you stick a dash in there, it will not show up, and chances are that they’ll miss it!

If they don’t have a tracked tag listed, take the initiative and either take the dash out or squish the urls words all together, like as-sweetasblood can be tagged as as sweetasblood or assweetasblood. 

Please double-check what you tag with another person’s URL, and don’t be mad if it turns out they didn’t see it because it didn’t show up in their tags!

The dreaded grey boxes

We all went through that roleplaying phase when the ‘insert photo’ button was an anomaly. Copy-pasting images or using the ‘Insert image’ option are usually the choice for new tumblr users, but people should be able to see them without clicking them.

To avoid these grey boxes, simply click the light grey link in the corner whenever you use a text post, as seen below.

It’ll take you to your image folder, and you, from there, can use the icons you have carefully hoarded. Simply click, wait, and presto! 

No grey boxes to worry about!

Reblogging

PLEASE DO NOT

REBLOG A REPLY

OR ANYTHING

AS A LINK! 

It is highly annoying, cuts everything short, and just plain bothers a lot of people. Why not let everyone read everything, instead of reblogging as a link so it cuts it off and makes people actually CLICK the link to see something as simple as a reply or a meme? 

Reblogging as text is easy once you know how.

Success!

If there’s anymore questions, don’t be afraid to ask me or another roleplayer who knows their stuff. Don’t be shy, and definitely don’t feel embarrassed.

After all, mistakes are something everyone makes once in a while.