Terminology
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Harry Potter terms
General roleplay terms
Powerplaying
Powerplaying is, in a sense, a form of Godmoding and is also against the rules. Powerplay is when you control other people’s characters in your role-play post. For example, if you encounter someone else’s character in the forest and shout “hello” out to them, you cannot say that they looked up, smiled to you and walked over –that’s the other person’s job to decide what their character’s do. However, you can powerplay with NPCs (non-playable characters, ie. A character other than a main RP character). I suppose one is in most danger of powerplaying in fight or battle role-plays. However tempting it may be to control another person’s character in a fight, please do not do it as it is very frustrating and aggravating for the other person who’s having their character controlled. If you’re lucky, the other person will just bite the bullet and continue, but if you’re not, there’s a high chance you will get warned for it. Nevertheless, avoid powerplaying at all costs (subtle powerplay in situations where it can’t be helped is excusable) and you’ll be fine smile.gif
In-Character (mostly referred to as IC)
In-character (or IC) basically means anything from the point of view of your character (like you being in your character’s mind biggrin.gif). For example, and IC post would be a post written from your character’s point of view, under the influence of your character’s perspective, emotions, feelings, opinions…basically, In-character is where you switch over from being you, to being your character.
Out-Of-Character
Out-of-character (or OOC) is pretty much the opposite of IC, where you’re being well…you. You’re out of your character’s mind and back into your own, would be one way of seeing it. It’s what is meant by OOC boards –boards where we all step away from the imagined world of role-play, and just become ourselves and interact with each other as people. OOC boards are a way of getting to know the people behind the characters, which is usually a very interesting thing to do!
Newb
Newb, or Newbie, is just simply a term to describe new members.
Thread
Another name for a topic.
RP/RPers
RP is short for role-play, and RPers is, obviously, short for role-players. Used quite often.
RL
RL is short for "Real Life" and is used when explaining something to do with the persons real life outside of Avalon.
