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While I do agree that roleplay rules should be respected and followed, I find a few of your points to be.... what's the word I'm looking for?.... Debatable and unfair.
I think such rules such as "No powerplaying", "No Mary Sues", "Be nice" are respectable in roleplays. I really don't tolerate powerplaying one bit, and I for sure don't like coming across characters that seem all Mary Sue-like. It's just unfair to a roleplay that wants to keep things realistic and simple.
Rules regarding literacy can sometimes be a little too over the top. Typing out 4-6 sentences to describe how your character is doing a simple task of drinking water or rolling in the grass is really unecessary.
The whole thing about one-liners, it depends on what kind content is in the one liner. If there is good sentence structure, proper use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling, I want to know what people find so wrong with it? I've seen a few one liners that look like, (The vixen slowly trotted over to her eldest son and sat down by his side. "You look so depressed. What's troubling you today?" she chirped to him quietly.) That sounds alot better than a one-liner that sounds like (Trots over to her son. "Whats wrong son?")
When one-liners look like the second example, I can understand how it frustrates "literate" players. But I think the first example shouldn't be frowned upon, since it used proper spelling, grammar, punctuation, ect.
Blizzard is a white she-cat with sparkling blue eyes and a green-tipped tail. Blizzard had this green marking when she was a tiny kitten. She uses her tail to sometimes draw on the ground when she is bored, and she makes decent drawings of other animals and felines.
First of all, if this is a realistic roleplay, cats cannot have blue eyes. Secondly, how can a cat have a green-tipped tail? If it were paint, the you'd probably try to get it off. If it hardened on it...there's no way you can draw with it. Also, I've never heard of a cat actually doodling on the ground. Maybe they have, but I haven't heard of it.
Are you some kind of expert on what's realistic and what's not? Sure, a white cat won't normally have a green grass-stained tail from making pretty pictures in the dirt. HOWEVER, there is such thing as a cat having blue eyes. I would know because I own one. There are plenty of white cats in the world with ice-blue eyes... and many of them are deaf due to a genetic disorder.
I have a few characters that have the realistic colors of their animal species. Some are a bit different because they have a few unrealistic characteristics; such as my red fox character, Kopper. She has the realistic colors of a red fox, but her eyes are a pale green, and she has a bit of purple eye-shadow on her eyelids. She's been rejected from a few groups that were wanting to go full-blown realistic. Funny thing was, they weren't acting realistic at all when they were roleplaying; hunting down elk and deer like wolves would...... FAIL!
But I do agree with some of the points you gave. I think it should be important to follow the rules of a roleplay. Those rules are more than likely there for a reason. I wouldn't want any powerplaying/godmodding in my roleplays. I wouldn't want any perfect Mary Sues and Gary Stues either.
This is an interesting topic...
Though a few were thrown off the topic with the "cats not having blue eyes"-thing, which they can if I may add.
Most people I see in "literate" role-plays, such as Lady had said, the foxes and other wolf-like animals (though not exactly wolves) will hunt for wolf prey. And same goes with cheetahs, jaguars, etc. (just large felines, really) in some role-plays will hunt for elk as well. Dunnowhybuttheyapparentlydo. -Nervous laughter-
The "illiterate" role-plays, which I think are the most interesting, seem to have a sort of view on realism and sometimes make more sense with their word choice rather than "literate" role-players. For an example:
"lilith bit her lip. sometimes she couldnt help it."
Sure, it's a one-liner sentence, but it gives you a small picture of what their character is doing; for all we know, the role-player could've already described their character a little more in detail before we hopped in, maybe they hadn't. Timing is key in this particular place.
An example that you might see in some of the so-called "literate" role-plays:
"Rosie hopped across the brown log. Her brown hide blowing in the wind, the femme's pillars were spread out as the coyote moved. 'C'mon guys, hurry!' She called behind her, her flags blowing in the wind distracted her. Rosie scared away the large bull elk that her clan was scouting."
A lot of the words used in this role-play right here are what some "literate" wolf-speakers use, and it doesn't portray anything a coyote would do. Coyotes are mainly scavengers, trying to eat after larger, more efficient animals (bears, wolves, cougars, etc.), or they will hunt down small mammals and ground birds.
I have to agree with most: Gary/Mary Sues are almost everywhere and are some of the power-players, god-mods, insta-killers, etc. So I can understand why this rule is put there.
However, the most that I have agreed with prior to this sentence would already know that this rule wouldn't be needed for "literate" role-plays, since no advanced role-player would actually ever Gary/Mary Sue.
For example, this is what a pesky bugger--Imean, Gary/Mary Sue can do:
"tom wanted someone to mate with. he felt alone but didnt cry in his corner. i love you. he muttered in his sleep. his beauty glowing in the moonlight attracting all females and making them jealous of him and wanting him. its always happening. he thought."
Now, now little children reading this, this isn't the best way to get a mate, (you shouldn't mate at all, but you can have your characters in love, of course~!) since nobody can be that beautiful, nor can somebody make all the female wolves/whateveryouare fall in love with you. In fact, this is a big no-no!
Back on track: I think this rule isn't really needed at all, since most already know not to do this. Some might do this, but I still think you don't need to tell someone like "You cannot do this", or "You cannot do that", or something like that, (that might just be me...) and tell them before warning them if this rule isn't added.
Just wanted to have this little conversation~
-Wolfie