RP basics - Do and Do not of roleplaying for newcomers

[LigH]

Or brief:

/tell Eliteplayer Your description: tl;dr

tl;dr = too long; didn't read

[Pakarro]

Bigger and longer is not always better, in fact, it can be a huge pain in the ass. Remember that folks

Very true!

[MishkaL1138]

And that's why you put a small NPC description-like description on your IC tab, and everything else in the OOC tab, such as clothes and the like.

[Mariana Xiechai]

I've always thought description length was something sort of up in the air. It depends on your preferences, really. Personally, I like walking up to a character and seeing a description that's chalk full of details, because that's the way I like my books, long and complex. Granted, this can be bad for someone who maybe isn't a native english speaker or who doesn't read at 100+ million miles per hour, so my solution has always been to just keep a short "currents" tab at the top for folks that don't want to go through the entirety of the description. I find this works out pretty well for both sides of the fence, as it were.

[Candy]

I don't care if the description is long or short, as long as there IS one...really there's no one way that everybody's description should be, though. Diversity is better.

Also, I don't know if others do this, but I identify people by their description if I haven't played with them extensively - it helps me put the name to my mental image of the character.

And that's why you put a small NPC description-like description on your IC tab, and everything else in the OOC tab, such as clothes and the like.

I use the IC tab for what your character, assuming they're not blind, will ICly see and the OOC tab for things the character might not know and occasionally other information. Like I said, not everyone ought to do things exactly the same way.