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SapphoServilius
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Online Fantasy Roleplaying Exposed


 Mention "Fantasy Role-Playing," and most people picture something like this:


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Online fantasy roleplaying does not depend on dice or charts or any "formalized" rules. Instead, it depends entirely on imagination. The only rules are: respect the other players; stay true to the milieu; respect the other players; keep in character (IC) and out of character (OCC) posts separate, and in the appropriate threads; respect the other players; don't do permanent harm to another player without her permission; and, above all else, respect the other players. Actually, when you come right down to it, when rendered down to their most basic purpose, all the rules of online fantasy role-playing can be stated in a single sentence: "respect the other players."

Notice that does not mean your character always has to respect their characters. If someone puts a character into the game that is a pure slave, too broken to object to her treatment or even contemplate escape, then it is not disrespectful to the player of that character to treat the character in that way: buy her, sell her, use her, abuse her. Presumably, if a player introduces such a character into the game, it's because the player wants to roleplay that happening to her. The one absolute rule, however, is that you never kill another player's character without that player's explicit permission.

A good example of the way this all works can be found in the conversation that's starting out between JosephineMaia and me at Sappho's Domus. I live with the woman who plays Josephine irl, and we have FRPed both online and irl (yes, the geeky kind with dice) for years. So I trust we will continue to set a good example.

In the meantime, if you have any questions on how this works, or anything else about this group or online roleplaying, please ask below.
MCandKC
40 Comments

If you take a look at our thread as of this date, you will see there is a possibility that our story and Sir Stephen's thread might soon be tightly interwoven. If we were to become slaves in Sir Stephen39s domus, what would become of the our thread?


MCandKC
MC
salacious scholar


SapphoServilius
13 Comments

MC:

I see two alternatives for dealing with such a circumstance.

1. You could, although I recommend against it, close your thread. Just post a comment announcing it closed, pointing to Sir Stephen39s thread as your new abode. Clearly, you have sufficiently mastered alt's esoteric but serviceable hyperlink protocols to do this. This would not keep people from posting on your thread, but it would give them warning that such posts would be ignored. Indeed, upon request, I could delete any extraneous posts.

2. Instead, I recommend that you use the "Edit Post" function to change your thread to make it whatever extension of Sir Stephen39s domus is appropriate. As you know, those hyperlinks are available in subsequent comments as well, so nothing prevents you three from weaving your story through both threads and over to Josie's Slave Market as well.

I hope this helps!

To link to this group topic Online Fantasy Roleplaying Exposed use [group_post 464186] in your messages.


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