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| This is written for the use of people who have forgotten or want to learn how to use HTML. And for people who want to know how to RP. |
| A Roleplay should
include 3 areas, Entrance:- You should make the entrance
intesting, not just HHH walks to the ring and grabs a mic
but a more detailed description. Say what arena and where
you are, what the fans are doin and there reaction (i.e-
they are booing or lobbing rubbish at the superstars
etc.) Speech:- Include commentry, and your
wrestlers speech, when writing the speach make it
creative and original. Make it easy to read, this is the
main part of the RP so this section should be at least 15
or more lines long. End:- Don't just say HHH throws The mic
and leaves off up the ring, describe it better, describe
the fans reaction to the speech etc. Pictures and Music:- Add no more than
4 pictures in your RP or it will take a while to load.
But Pictures are harder than u think, they have to be
exact to work. you can't just select a pic URL and it
works, but to make it easy you... NOTE: <font color=green>GREEN <font color=blue>BLUE <font color=red>RED <font color=yellow>YELLOW <font color=pink>PINK (for the girls) <font color=orange>ORANGE Any other color you can think of should
work if you do that. <font color=anycolor> but
remeber don't put any spaces between the color name. Your can do all three on the one word or sentence <i><b><u>The Game</i></b></u>
there are other ways to display your marquees but i won't go into this. One Crucial thing to remeber is DO NOT PUT YOUR WHOLE RP IN A MARQUEE this makes it look really boring. The last thing about marquees is that instead of using text all the time you can actually use pictures in them aswell. <marquee><img src="URL OF PIC"></marquee> you can use multiple pictures in these marquees but remeber to use a maximum of 3 in each marquee. The first thing you have to remember is that an E Fed is a free game, or as I put a service for people that want to do it. Make sure you fill out every part off the application unless told otherwise! Each spot has some importance to you getting a contract! Try to only to send the Application once and try to use your best role-play as your sample role-play. And always wait to be told you are in the fed to start role-playing! Now lets get to the stuff you really came to this page for! Learning how to role-play! One of the most important things you need is to find a length that suites you. Two or three line roleplays, even 10 line roleplays won't get you that far in this business. Actually in most feds it will get your fired. And to long won't help you either, unless you know how to keep the reader in tune to what you are writing! Make sure to keep description in there, that is just as important as dialogue!
Setting:- Where is you wrestler at. Is he/she in a bar getting drunk. Or at church, worshiping his/her gods. In setting included surrounding details: weather, lighting etc. Wrestler:- What is your wrestler wearing. Does he/she have a beer or drink in his hands. Describe facial features or scars from the event before. Let you imagination fly freely. Actions:- What is your wrestler doing. Is he scratching, drinking. Or what ever. Through some unimportant stuff in there too, like him polishing his newly won world title, or that he whips the blood off of his hand which was found on his clothes from last night's event. Dialogue:- This is where your wrestler talks. Make your major points clear! Don't just say minor details, they can get annoying. But just don't talk about major stuff either that gets quite repetitive! However, you shouldn't use this as a lifeline for every situation. In order to be a good roleplayer you need to think for yourself mainly. These are just some friendly guidelines. At this point I'm assuming you already know what a roleplay is but if you don't I'll take this brief second to explain it. A roleplay is a situation or statement that you make as your character. Step One: I don't meen too bee rude. Butt U shood have correct speelning and gramer when ever possible. Sorry about that. Here's how it's supposed to go: I don't mean to be rude, but you should have correct spelling and grammar whenever possible. You'd be surprised how often I see that... mostly in Powerplant federations, but it does occur in high quality feds as well. The number one thing to any roleplay is not grammar and spelling but it definately helps. There's nothing more aggravating for a grader than to have to sit down and read a roleplay that confuses them. While it is good to use proper grammar. Don't be afraid to use slang or certain types of dialect if your character or an extra calls for it. An example is if your character talks like a "Funked Out G-Dawg Freaky Momma!" Then use words like "YO YO YO!!" or whatever. That's not my thing, so I'm not familiar with current extreme slang. Sorry. Use the proper synonyms as well. This next section is NOT meant to insult your intelligence! I can't stress that enough. Here are the definitions to several misused synonyms: Hear: To listen to one speaking or the sounds of a surrounding area. "He could hear through the doorway." Here: A location usually in reference to ones current where abouts. "He's coming over here." Their: Possessive Pronoun for multiple people. "Their clothes were strewn across the lawn." There: One's location, usually in reference to a destination rather than a current area. "He moved over there." Threw: To have thrown. "He threw the cat out the window." Through: to go from one end to another. "He read through the book." There are many, many others that I didn't mention. Those that were mentioned are some of the most misused, that's probably why I remembered them. Step Two: Think of a gimmick. Don't know what a gimmick is? Quite frankly a gimmick is the persona a wrestler takes on. Undertaker has a "Deadman" gimmick, Stone Cold Steve Austin has a "Best of the Best" gimmick. But think of a gimmick before you even send in the form. It's good to have your character developed and you being able to perform with him well. By performing well I mean, if you can't do comedic roleplays... don't create a character that makes situations funny. By funny, I don't mean Rodney Dangerfield funny... Rodney Dangerfield as a wrestler is scary! Not funny. I mean funny as in; spoofs, witty responses, Dueling Banjo syndrome {where the wrestlers trades witty jabs at one another in the roleplay}. Ahh, that brings up another point. If your going to join a federation... Use one wrestler and one wrestler only. Perhaps two at most but one is recommended. If you bring nine different wrestlers into the fed for the soul purpose of using them in your roleplays then your only crowding the roster. Sometimes a secondary character is nessessary for a great roleplay but you don't have to use other wrestlers. Use people. Fans, celebrities, announcers, etc. Now think of your wrestler's past. Where did he grow up? What causes him to be the way he is? Did he suffer abuse as a child? These are all serious questions that could mean a great angle or character flaw you could use to the largest advantage. Did your wrestler get held over a high place as a child and therefore has an unbelievable sense of vertigo? What does your wrestler look like? Don't just say he looks like Steve Austin... unless that's exactly what you want. We're going for originality here. Here's a good technique I found out in my later years of e-wrestling. Take your favorite attributes of the wrestlers you like and combine them. Example: Name: Gimmick Boy! Height: 7'2" {Big Show's height} Weight: 255 lbs. Hair-Style: Old HHH Braid. See what I mean? The same thing goes for personality traits. Step Three: Scan for things you like. You might want to read the other wrestler's roleplays and find what they do right and wrong. Know your competition. Find a character flaw and exploit it. For example. Jack Harding was about as vain a person as they come. At least that's what I remember about him. Use something like vanity against them. Example: "Jack Harding... can you possibly get through a day without looking in a mirror? After I'm done with you tonight, you'll break every mirror you gaze into!" Or in the case of Jack Harding. "Boy, you think you can challenge me? Your not even worth my time! I've seen boils on your face with more potential." Do NOT digress into simple insults like "You Suck!" or "Yo Mama!" No offense but they just look stupid and a grader will likely minus points for things like that. Another thing, unless it is in your character to do so, keep swear words to a minimum whenever possible. If every other word out of your wrestler's mouth is "FUCK!" then you might want to sit back and develop him a little more before continueing. Another VERY important thing. If somebody insults you in a roleplay or on the OOC board. Don't take it personally. At least try not to. I know, I know, you've been told this for BILLION times but e-fedding is a game. That's all it is, A GAME! But another word of advice for that. BEFORE you go and insult somebody on the OOC board, realize that these are REAL people your talking to. Not the wrestlers of the roleplaying board. A lot of people can and will take offense if you do. Insulting and the such make the game less desirable to play and people dwindle from roleplaying and who looks like the ass? You do! Now, if somebody insults you in a roleplay. Don't piss and moan about it in your next roleplay or on the OOC board. USE IT! Take the roleplay apart and find things you can use. Roleplaying duels are a clash of wits. If you can blow them away with an insult {in character not out of character} or a retort then you'll likely win your match with them. Example: Wrestler #1: You Suck! Wrestler #2: Yeah? Well your a blatant bag of bag of blanch-inducing bung substance! Wrestler #1: Yeah well... uuhhh... What the hell is bung substance? There you go... you won the argument right there. Not many people can retort to something as bad as a being called a blatant bag of blanch-inducing bung substance. But roleplaying is not all insults. Step Four: No roleplaying is NOT all insults. In fact in most cases you don't even have to mention your opponent in your roleplay. This, you can work to your advantage as well. The good part about this is that it opens you up to a whole new area of things to talk about. You DO NOT by any circumstances have to limit your roleplays to an arena area. Although some of the best I've read have been done in such a way. GO PLACES! There's a gigantic world out there and your only one small person. This is fantasy, go jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge and get arrested! You'll get bailed out before your match, unless you want to work that angle to its fullest. Go to the top of the Empire State Building and toss silver dollars off! Say something like: "SSS, this silver dollar is you. This is what will happen when you and I go at it." And drop the dollar off the building. Create chaos as the dollar rockets toward the ground and slams into something! You can kill people if you want... just as long as it's not in real life and only in your roleplays. Don't kill the other wrestlers though. It would be dumb if you killed your opponent then he roleplays living and breathing quite healthily! It doesn't make sense! Step Five: Here's a useful tip. GET TO KNOW THE STAFF!!! Nine times out of ten the staff of a good federation is using MSN Messenger or AOL Instant Messager as a means of communication. Now come on. We all know AOL sucks {Sorry AOL users but that's my opinion} and your probably thinking that AOL Instant Messager is no better. Just try it out. I'm sure you'll be pleasantly surprised. Back to the point though. Try and contact the President or the Owner. Get to know him or her. It will give you a much more prosperous time in the fed. A good President listens to new angle ideas, your feelings on the condition of the fed, and will help you out at times. No this isn't slyly cheating your way to the top, though it has been known to happen, don't take advantage of a friendship unless you deserve it {wait, I didn't word that right... well you know what I mean!} If the staff knows what your planning, then your going to get a lot more leeway than normal. The matches will be written with a better idea of what your wanting to happen. Believe me, there have been screw-ups and there will always be screw-ups. But at least they'll be less common than otherwise. While all of what I said about the staff is true, most of the time the staff members are really nice people and can develop into great friendships. Step Six: Use HTML for style. ive showed you the basics earlier. You don't have to use it but it's useful for good appearence. If you use HTML, create your roleplays with a general color scheme. Your character has a certain colored text at all times, the actions have their own color as well. Example: Whenever your character speaks have the text be yellow. Whenever an action takes place have the text be blue. Also use various text altercations. Like italics, underlining, and bolding. Let's take this to a more visual level so you understand what I'm talking about. Gimmick Boy is sitting in a chair reading a book. He looks up at the camera. Gimmick Boy: BLAH BLAH BLAH!!! Gimmick Boy resumes reading his book. The camera fades to black. There are also tables but that's a little more advanced than I'd like to explain here. A good way to view how your roleplay is progressing is to write it out on your NotePad program and saving the file as something like Roleplay.txt or whatever. From there you rename the file Roleplay.html and reopen it. That will show your roleplay in an Explorer or Netscape format. I, myself use Notepad when I do this because for some reason when you use Wordpad you get ASCII. |
Ive have probably repeated myself but it doesn't matter because you will now understand what i mean. I now hope you now know how to RP like a Pro. |
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