oleplaying means to create and act as another character. Much like in acting you develop another persona and move them about this make believe world. As a character, you should constantly be in that character's mind and say and act as that character would. Though you can adopt chracteristics from yourself, the fun in playing a character is acting like someone else.

This character is not you, so should not say things you know about but that they couldn't, like the existence of airplanes or who one of your other characters might know but the one your playing currently doesn't. Which basically means keep each chracters knowledge separate.

Each character has their own memories and thoughts. There is never a reason to say things that your character, as a real person would not understand. This is called speaking out of character, ooc. Do you sit around and talk about how many hitpoints your dog or friend has? Neither would your character. This is a game, and a great deal of the enjoyment comes from playing. Most of this playing should involve your role. It is up to you to create this role, you can be as simple or as wild and creative as you like, the further you take it the better. Once you've created a basic character idea start thinking of ways you can play it out.

Does your character have any personality quirks? Maybe they're afraid of sharp objects so they never use swords. What about speech characteristics or mannerisms? These are up to you, and we expect you to create them. A strong emphasis will be placed on roleplaying and anyone who expects to be in any worthy positions should have a strong character. If you are having trouble creating a character go through the character creation helps, which lists questions that you should answer and can apply to a roleplaying environment.

What happens if your break speaking out of char rules? That depends on the situation, normally one should never speak out of character since this spoils some of the game mood. However one is not forced to follow this rule in chat areas like mindlink, several taverns, immortal channel and over clan channel. But all communication to strangers should be as if you know nothing about anything else than a normal fantasy character would.

The chatting areas are for the players who wants to relax and a nice chat with friends...and foes :). So there you can speak your mind and discuss everything between heaven and earth. I hope that you find these rules to a be a challenge and not a burden. Try and role play your character to the best of your abilities, and help this world become more real :).