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Role-Playing Etiquette Compendium; Part II: Basics

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II. Basics

There is a lot of material that can be put into this section, so I will try to limit it to the more important things!

1. Spelling and Grammar

All role-players will tell you that these two are the most annoying basics that people make mistakes with in RP. They speak for themselves as far as chat conversations go. Do your best to keep your spelling and grammar as close to proper for easier and smoother reading by the other characters you are in contact with. If your character only speaks Mandalorian, then don't speak Basic or Huttese, unless you can specify that you have learned them in-character. I will now give an example of Spelling and Grammar:

/say *Boomer wakls into teh Canteena his eyes lit up in anger. he struted to the bar and slamed his fist on the top and looked over the crowd before his eyes settle on a twi'lek dancer dressed in only tiny scraps of fabric.* She's a looker, aint she?" He says to no one in particuler before scrubbing his dirty hands over his rugged face.*

It's pretty easy to see what is wrong with the above statement. Though, some of the grammar in the above example leads to our second lesson.

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denDAY I think it should be stressed that this is not rules but simply guidelines. I think it's a nice guide, but personally I ...

McCay Nicely written. Something else to consider is that some people emote what they think, and given that most of us cannot ...

Skygrave I'm very happy to see some of the comments here in support of giving a little leeway to people who do not have perfect g ...

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What about your character? Be they Sith, Mandalorian, soldier, or peacekeeper, they will no doubt have to interact with the Hutts or agents of the greedy space slugs at one point or another to reach their goals; will they compromise to gain what they need from the Hutts? Maybe your character already does work for a Hutt. What is your limit to the endless greed they seem to exhibit? Will they exploit their own employers or follow every order? Tell us in the comments!