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Role Playing

Elendor, and many other MUSH based virtual realities, are based on Role Playing(RP). Very simply, it means playing a role. Your skills at acting and writing are useful, and may very well be given a good exercise. The idea is to try and learn as much about the character you play, and use that to guide your decisions as that character. The better you are at it, the more likely that others will want to RP with you. People who really show a great skill at it are likely to become feature characters if they want. One of the most crucial skills is the ability to make IC/OOC distinctions.

OOC means Out of Character, IC means In Character. These are very important distinctions, especially in a world like Elendor, where many of you have read the books, know the characters as well as they know themselves, and know secrets about them that would not be known by someone who really lived in Middle Earth. It is your responsibility to measure what you know ICly.

For example: If you have read the Lord of the Rings, you know a great deal about Aragorn. Yet most people in Middle Earth knew very little about him. If you are playing a rider of Rohan and Aragorn walks up to you, you would have to remember that you don't know him as the heir to the Kingdoms of Gondor and Arnor, leader of the Dunedain, but do know him as someone you may never have seen before who might be a threat to your King!

Things you learn by methods that are OOC (reading books, exploring while set OOC, chatting on public channels, paging other players for information, using code to spy without good IC methods) should be forgotten when IC.

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