Roleplaying Guidelines
While you are a member of this site you are required to keep to the following guidelines in your roleplaying. This is intended to keep the standard of the roleplaying as high as possible and to help you to develop your own writing skills.
Please read each of the following guidelines carefully before roleplaying on the site. If you do not understand anything, feel free to contact a staff member.
1. No Mary-Sues or Larry-Stus.
May Sues are characters that posess unrealistic or unlikely traits above and beyond those expected of a character in the average (Twilight) book.
They are nearly always exceptionally attractive, with said attractiveness often being described in great detail and typically noticed frequently by the other characters. Of course all vampires are physically attractive. But it is highly unlikely that you will ever find a more attractive vampire than Rosalie. Very few are even on the same level as her.
If she is a vampire or a werewolf she will rarely suffer the effects of her condition. - She will have an incredibly high resistance to blood, will secretly have transformed before Leah, won't have felt at all disorientated when she first phased and will have been able to phase straight back again with no difficulties at all. She will instantly be have an incredible talent - she will able to transform into animals, or else have cat ears in her humanoid shape, she'll be able to control the elements and the thoughts and feelings of everyone around her. She'll fall in love with her creator's favourite character. She usually have the majority of the male characters drooling at her feet. She will have her favourite wolf imprint on her imedietly, whether or not they have imprinted already on someone else, and whether or not she is a vampire.
Mary Sues normally have exceptional physical and personal characteristics, including unusual and (typically) tragic backgrounds. They may have uncommon eye or hair colors that change with her moods, or come from a race or species which is uncommon or unknown in the story’s setting. They may have exotic names, pets, or possessions, often ones with great perceived mystical or magical significance. They usually have dark or traumatic pasts, although they never suffer as a result of it, and they are generally portrayed as misunderstood or unfairly persecuted. They are often abandoned as infants or young children, from a famous or infamous family, or related somehow to all of the author’s favorite characters. In the case of Twilight, they will usually be a "new" Cullen, and will either be Bella's best friend or her bitter rival for Edward's attention.
Unfortunately for Mary-Sue, Edward is far to attached to Bella to look at anyone else, no matter how 'amazing' they are. And having a dozen new Cullens (using the name or not) would clash with the books.
The Male Version of Mary-Sue is refered to as a Larry-Stu or a Garry-Stu. He can also be distinguished by his his brooding, solitary behaviour, matched by his maverick disregard for authority. He is likewise endowed with amazing powers and abilities, and has the majority of the female characters falling at his feet.
For a free test to see if your character is a Mary-Sue or Larry-Stu, visit the Mary Sue Litmus Test.
2. No One-Liners.
It is generally considered to be good manners, when replying to a roleplay, to write roughly the same amount in reply to the other members taking part. Immagine how disapointing it would be if you wrote something that took an hour only to have a single reply of: "Mary-Sue walked into the room 'OMGZ Hiiii!'" in return. Non-RP threads are required to have at least three sentances of relevant content in the first post. Roleplays, on the other hand are required to have a paragraph of at least five sentances in all posts.
3. No God-Moding.
God-Moding is a practice whereby a character automatically has everything they do work perfectly. If they cast a spell it works first time and always hits its target. When Roleplaying such a thing as a duel, always give the other player a chance to dodge the spells being cast in their direction. For instance: "Larry-Stu shot a look at him, shooting lasers from his eyes and slaying him instantly." Would be an example of this. Vampiric talents are rare, and every single one has its limitations. Regardless of how powerful your talent is, everyone must have a chance to act on behalf of their own character.
Meta-Gaming is the use by a character in a Roleplay of information that they have never learnt. For instance, knowing someones name and full history before they have been introduced to them. Just because you know something or someone, it doesn't mean that your character automatically does too.
5. No Autoing.
Autoing is an extremly irritating occurence. It is when a player takes control of a character which does not belong to them, usually without permission. Please control only your own characters.
6. Keep to Canon situations.
Edward will not fall in love with your character. Jacob will not imprint on her. Aro will not hand over the keys to Volterra to her, either. Carlisle does not go around biting people randomly. He has only ever transformed four people into vampires: Edward, Esme, Rosalie and Emmett. Noone else. He only does it when there is absolutely no other way to save that person's life.
Every vampiric talent has its limitations and conditions. Edward's mind reading has a limited range, as does Jasper's emotional control. Also every talent is an enhancement of your character's strongest human trait. Things like control of the elements or the weather, complete control of someone else's mind etc. are unrealisitc. When creating a talent for yuor character, please try to think about where it came from. The best way to create a talent is to first create the personality of your character as a human. Discover what their strongest trait is, and then think how it can realisticly be enhanced.
EDIT: Please please please, for the sake of my sanity - don't mob me! -Edward
7. Only accepted vampires / wolves can roleplay as vampires / wolves.
If the species on your profile says 'human', then that's what you are. Both vampires and wolves are relatively rare. It's still a human world.
8. Closed, Open Roleplays .
An Open Roleplay is one that anybody can join.
A Closed Roleplay is one that only those who have been invited by the creator may join in with.
The majority of RPs on Nox will be open. If you wish to restrict who can taken part, please add (Closed) to the thread's title. If you see a thread with this title, it means that you can't post in it unless you have been invited by someone taking part in it already. Please don't post asking if you can join - if you're interested, send a message to the member that started the thread.
9. OOC Posts.
Please keep OOC (Out of Character) posts to a minimum when Roleplaying. They disrupt the flow of the Roleplay and also make it difficult to determine what is and isn't said by the characters themselves. If you wish to ask a question or inform someone that you have to go, it is better to use messages rather than post it. OOC threads seperate to the Roleplays are fine.
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