- Your character's behavior always corresponds to what that kind of person would do in that kind of situation in that kind of world. Always.
- You can play a character who is not merely a simple variant on yourself, or a simple wish-fulfillment version of yourself, without violating rule #1.
- What you do doesn't just conform to the world, setting, theme, and tone, it also helps build it up and establish it.
- Your actions are always done in a considerate way that enhances, or at least does not detract from, the enjoyment of the other participants, always. You manage to do that without conflicting with rule #1.
Amusingly, in my 25 years roleplaying, without exception, every time I've met someone who believed themselves to the best roleplayer they knew, one who would "show the rest of you how it's done", they were invariably bad roleplayers who regularly violated at least one of these rules. The best roleplayers have always been people who considered themselves about equal with most of their peers at roleplaying.
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That's a good list: succinct, accurate, and with just the right amount of criteria. I think you should start an Open Roleplaying thread and see what other people think.
Done. Though my threads there rarely get much notice, unless I get SteveD to post them for me. I'm just not active enough to be known enough to rise above the noise.
Well, it rose above, and then was consumed by, the noise. Now I remember why I don't try to talk about roleplaying there. That's not what they're good at, IMO.
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