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| ===== Roleplaying Overview ===== | ===== Roleplaying Overview ===== | ||
| In Star Army, you and other members create characters who live in the high-tech fictional universe of Star Army and then use your imagination to write your character' | In Star Army, you and other members create characters who live in the high-tech fictional universe of Star Army and then use your imagination to write your character' | ||
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| - | **Star Army** is a play-by-post roleplaying community, which means we operate by posting text on the forum. Unlike tabletop roleplaying games, Star Army is mostly just writing and does not use complex game mechanics (math). Most story plots have a **Game Master** (GM) assigned whose job is to guide the story, describe the setting, and write the actions of background characters (NPCs). In the Open Roleplay forum, the creator of the RP thread may act as a GM. | ||
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| - | Most RP occurs in ongoing RP plots. After their second RP thread starts, they can get their own subforum. A //plot// in this case refers to an ongoing role playing story and its group of players. In the Star Army RP, these are often based on starships. | ||
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| - | **In Star Army RPs, we usually write in third-person past tense**, the way most novels do. For example: //A scowl of disgust appeared on Sayuri' | ||
| For the full guide to roleplaying on Star Army, see [[guide: | For the full guide to roleplaying on Star Army, see [[guide: | ||
guide/new_players.txt · Last modified: 2024/03/17 13:29 by wes