Roleplay

Bumping so I wont lose it~!

hopefully i can start role playing soon on this site but, i have a few questions

1. Can you still have a leader in a group?

2. how would the fighting system work?

and lastly...

3. is your weaknesses based of of what you are weak in the coliseum?
"like nature is powerful over earth"
please help me with these so i can start please :P

Wow, it's been a while since I reviewed this. I may have to update this considering I wrote this up ages ago and there's been some great suggestions plus I've learned new things through roleplaying myself.

@Joshdaawsome
Actually making an image you can do it in any program like MS Paint (really good for pixel art or spriting) or Photoshop/Gimp/whatever image program of choice and then you can just upload it to a site like Tinypic or Imgur. Actually posting it on the forums, you take the link from Tinypic or your host of choice and place it between image tags like so: [img*]URL[/img*] just without the *.

Powerplaying is a commonly used term that refers to one individual saying someone else's character did something/something happened to another individual's character without the other individual's permission. So, say, I said my character put your character into a headlock. Basically, it's considered common courtesy to give another person's character a chance to react, so a better way of approaching it would be to say your character attempted to put another character in a headlock, but whether or not the headlock was successful would be dependent on the other person. Likewise, if they attempted to attack your character the success would more-or-less be up to you.

The level of "powerplaying" (it may be referred to by different names in different groups as well) that is permitted is highly variable depending on who you are roleplaying with. What I explained tends to be considered the polite manner to approach it unless told otherwise, but some groups may be much more free-for-all where players are given some control over what happens to other people's characters in those situations (barring extreme, lasting effects like death or major injury) and still other groups may leave the success of actions up to something like a random generator or dice rolls more akin to Dungeons & Dragons style.

@Joshdaawsome
More or less. Basically, if Josh were to attack Jareth you would make it clear what your character wanted to do (in this case, charge her special move in order to fire it at Jareth) and then allow your partner roleplayer to react. So I'd either say Jareth was hit by the attack and explain the consequences of him being hit (his arm was injured, for instance) or explain how the attack missed because his small size deftly allowed him to loop out of the way. Your first post was really all you had to do because you allowed an opening for your partner to respond. It doesn't even have to be a long opening. You could have lunged at Jareth right away just as long as you didn't directly specify the attack hit without me having a chance to respond and indicate whether or not Jareth dodged. So your second post wasn't needed unless it was after I posted saying it missed, and then you posted in response explaining, perhaps, Josh's aim was off because she had slipped and banged into a wall.

Obviously, it's considered good sportsmanship to not constantly dodge attacks and such in fight scenes because it doesn't make it particularly fun (and it's actually really enjoyable to lose sometimes because it creates character development!) Hopefully I clarified it a bit more?

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Spriting is more-or-less pixel art on a smaller scale. Basically, the Pokemon images and such you see in the hand-held games would be considered "sprites" so when people refer to spriting it normally indicates they are making small pixel-art images. It can also be used inter-changeably with pixel art in general depending on who you are talking to.

If you aren't looking to upload your own image, you can just click the "generate code" button on your dragons' profile pages and that'll give you a linked image code for your dragon using their ID and such you can just copy and paste into a forum post. It's already correctly formatted for you.