Welcome to Across the Known World, a sandbox-style game set in the Known World of Mystara. You will find some general style-guidelines below.
I would like everyone to head each of your IC posts with the character's name and class in bold. Dialogue should be made using quotes ("") rather than colored text. Short OOC comments should be made behind spoiler blocks as opposed to redtext. Long OOC comments should be put in the OOC thread rather than the IC thread.
Posts should be in the present tense, third person. Post intentions, not results. I will narrate the results of any actions. Posts should be clear and succinct, conveying as much information as possible. I don't want to have to try and parse a post to figure out intent. Please also try to use proper grammar, spelling and capitalization. When posting, try to make sure every post counts. I like to work on a majority-rules basis for determining actions. A character should propose a course of action ("I say we take the left-hand corridor") and once an action is proposed the immediate posts following should address the proposal. If you're going to say "No" please make sure to propose an alternate! It also helps if you explain *why* you want to do something else ("Your suggestion has merit, my friend, but I would suggest the *right-hand* corridor, because, if you will remember the words of the oracle, she said to 'beware the sinister side'. In this case that clearly means we should eschew all left-hand corridors!"). Do not post that you have no input, or are fine with the majority decision!
As a general rule I tend to favor short posts that clearly explain what the character is trying to attempt. I have little interest in reading paragraphs about inner feelings, or what the character is wearing, etc. "Blaarg the Blotchy grumpily explains that the oracle was clearly referring to left-handed people, not corridors, and that the bones decorating the right-hand corridor give him the wiggins." is far preferable to "I haven't slept at all well, Blaarg thinks to himself as he wipes his nose on his blue velvet jerkin, the color of the nosegays that once grew outside the window of his high school sweetheart. He is a handsome man, perhaps a trifle on the pudgy side, with long fingers that speak of year being forced to practice the harpsichord blah blah blah . . ." We're not writing a novel or bad fanfic here. Posts should be kept short, sweet and to the point, conveying as much information as possible in as few words as possible.
You can see a sample post below.
I can look at the above post and immediate see which character is acting and what they're trying to do, including the specific target they have in mind.Gworg the Unwise
Gworg surveys the enemies before him. "I am Gworg, known as the Unwise! Tremble before my might, infidels!" The barbarian flexes his mighty thews and swings at the goblin before him with his longsword!
