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--- rp_101_guide [2025/06/14 19:29] – [🧰 6. Tools to Enhance Your RP] bunny
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 Stay consistent with your character’s personality.
-Serious conflict (injury, death, betrayal) should be in-depth role-play involvement and worked up to and built upon.
+Serious conflict (injury, death, betrayal) should be in-depth role-play involvement and worked up to and built upon. When deciding whether to PvP consider building a good narrative over getting loot. This is not a looter shooter, it's an RPG, and our community is small. Making another person rage quit removes a player from the community. This doesn't mean not to PvP, it just means to PvP well. If it comes to killing, try to give your opponent a meaningful and satisfying death. Reference the following if you have any questions: [[https://requiemrpg.com/wordpress/shard-rules|Rule 5]]
 Help new RPers feel welcome.
 ❌ Don’t:
-Godmod: Controlling someone else’s character without permission.
+Godmod: Controlling someone else’s character without permission. This is also known as God emoting. Example: *You look into my eyes and feel an overwhelming sense of attraction* - Ick. Don't do it. This includes emoting for other people's pack animals or NPCs.
 Metagame: Using OOC knowledge IC. If your character didn’t see it, they don’t know it.
-Powerplay: Making your character unrealistically strong or unstoppable.
+Powerplay: Making your character unrealistically strong or unstoppable. Example: You are roleplaying being arrested, and despite the other character being a templar and you being a squishy mage, you somehow overpower him and run away.
-Break immersion: Don’t interrupt RP with unrelated chat unless necessary (and use OOC markers).
+Break immersion: Don’t interrupt RP with unrelated chat unless necessary (and use OOC markers). If you notice someone going OOC without using OOC markers for whatever reason you can remind them of the rules OOC, and if they continue to play OOC just have your character treat them as if they are insane. Then contact the game master.
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