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General Terms
One of the things I've noticed about RPing is there are several different names for the same concepts. To try to help newbies out there I'm going to ask other members to help expand and detail this preliminary list.
Character:
1. Entity played by a person in an RPG. Either these are original creations or ones borrowed from a fandom or a mix of both.
Other terms: Puppet, pup(short for "puppet"), sock, muse
Player:
1. The real person behind the character
Other terms: Mun (short for "mundane")
God-Modding:
1. Controlling another characters actions you do not own.
For example you own Character A and another player owns Character B.
You write:
A slams his fist into B's stomach causing him to reel back twelve feet.
Variations:
[1.]Meta-Gaming:When your character knows out of game information and uses it in-game to an unfair advantage.
Example:Your character prepares one day ahead for an attack that is suppose to be a surprise attack planned out of game to happen on the next day, and they are not psychic.
[2.]Power-Gaming:Having a superpowered character that can win any fight against other characters.
Other terms: Being a total newb, being a jackass
Out of character:
1. Refers to players interacting as themselves and not their characters.
Other terms: OOC, Out of Game, OOG
Mary Sue:
1. An unrealistic female character for the setting that is usually either very powerful, very desirable, or both. They usually come with a sob story in place of a interesting history and are usually original creations but not always. Yes, the dreaded scourge of fanfic exists in RP too.
Other terms: Gary Stu (male variation), BRPS (bad role players suck) fodder.
ICA = ICC
[1.]In Character Actions = In Character Consequences
Meaning if your character makes a mistake, they will pay for it.
If they are an asshole, they will pay for it.
If they shoot the messenger, they will pay for it.
If they flip off the tentative allies and cause an international incident, they will paaaaaaaaaaaay for it when my character starts beating them with their own spine.
Ping or Tag
[1.]When it's your turn to comment on a livejournal thread.
IC =/= OOC
[1.] The decree that the player's feelings shouldn't affect what happens in-game (examples of such: Character A's player hates Character B and plays A as hating B despite the fact that the characters are friends/respect each other/don't even interact in canon, Player X ships Y/Z and has their character try to push them together at the expense of Character W who likes Z, a player doesn't like a certain plot so their character scurries off to parts unknown or does something that keeps the plot from going further, one player hates another so they use their character as a snarktool)
Well that's all I got so far, but hopefully it grows into an informative and deatiled list.
Character:
1. Entity played by a person in an RPG. Either these are original creations or ones borrowed from a fandom or a mix of both.
Other terms: Puppet, pup(short for "puppet"), sock, muse
Player:
1. The real person behind the character
Other terms: Mun (short for "mundane")
God-Modding:
1. Controlling another characters actions you do not own.
For example you own Character A and another player owns Character B.
You write:
A slams his fist into B's stomach causing him to reel back twelve feet.
Variations:
[1.]Meta-Gaming:When your character knows out of game information and uses it in-game to an unfair advantage.
Example:Your character prepares one day ahead for an attack that is suppose to be a surprise attack planned out of game to happen on the next day, and they are not psychic.
[2.]Power-Gaming:Having a superpowered character that can win any fight against other characters.
Other terms: Being a total newb, being a jackass
Out of character:
1. Refers to players interacting as themselves and not their characters.
Other terms: OOC, Out of Game, OOG
Mary Sue:
1. An unrealistic female character for the setting that is usually either very powerful, very desirable, or both. They usually come with a sob story in place of a interesting history and are usually original creations but not always. Yes, the dreaded scourge of fanfic exists in RP too.
Other terms: Gary Stu (male variation), BRPS (bad role players suck) fodder.
ICA = ICC
[1.]In Character Actions = In Character Consequences
Meaning if your character makes a mistake, they will pay for it.
If they are an asshole, they will pay for it.
If they shoot the messenger, they will pay for it.
If they flip off the tentative allies and cause an international incident, they will paaaaaaaaaaaay for it when my character starts beating them with their own spine.
Ping or Tag
[1.]When it's your turn to comment on a livejournal thread.
IC =/= OOC
[1.] The decree that the player's feelings shouldn't affect what happens in-game (examples of such: Character A's player hates Character B and plays A as hating B despite the fact that the characters are friends/respect each other/don't even interact in canon, Player X ships Y/Z and has their character try to push them together at the expense of Character W who likes Z, a player doesn't like a certain plot so their character scurries off to parts unknown or does something that keeps the plot from going further, one player hates another so they use their character as a snarktool)
Well that's all I got so far, but hopefully it grows into an informative and deatiled list.
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