Originally published on Mrs. Manners' RP Etiquette, How NOT to face Jack's wrath! by various authors.

I do expect you to pay attention to etiquette.

If some people have been roleplaying in a board for a long time, do not join unless asked to.
Likely, these people are deeply involved in plot by this time, so it's rude to interrupt and try to add your character to the mix if they didn't ask you to. For example, if one character is killing another, and they are on their fifth page of posts, it's a bad idea to walk in with a "Sally wanders along the forst path. She hears some noises and decides to investigate..." or whatever the case might be.

(Contributed by |||)


Don't eat the boards
God knows I've done it (God being Jack). It's usually because we're used to the Neopets speed typing and response... Not anymore, no need for speed.

What is eating boards? Well, for example: If three people are in a roleplay and only two people are online, and they get bored and roleplay on the same board, leaving the other character to do absolutely nothing (I'm talking cardboard cut out here), that is eating the board. It's no fun for that third person to come and find that he/she missed out on all the action.

How to avoid eating boards. Start a new RP with that person on a different board. Set it up by PM, have one of you start it and go nuts. Then you don't have to worry about that third or fourth person until they get back. Also, it's a good way to practice and develop characters in two person RPs.

Don't Be a Complete Know-it-all.
I know, I know, we all want to be on top of the action with extra senses and stuff, but there are some people who want to be mysterious. If your character can sense auras and sniff out classes you gotta make mistakes, have something it doesn't work with, or make it not perfect. Be oblivious, be so wonderfully ignorant! That's what you want other people to be right towards your character right? Surprise and mystery is way more fun then "la, la, la, hey I know what you are, you're an innish... I am too! Isn't that great? Hey where are you going? Wait for me, we gotta be friends cause I'm innish tooo!!!"

Note: Innish people may be innish without magic... So how can you sense that?

By the way, being a know-it-all is godmoding, which is against the rules. You can expect to be warned if you do it too much without a good excuse.

(contributed by Paris)


Don't take it personally if a character hates the bejeezus out of your character.
Seriously. Your character's probably annoying. Most of them are to certain types of people. And, hell, it's probably nothing personal against you. I have a bunch of characters that have all taken out war quests on characters whose muns I didn't have a thing against. If your character is annoying my character, he will yell at you. So will most of the rest of 'em. Don't be a whiny brat and be all "Ooo noo! You're a MEANIE!" That's just lame, and will make me want to strangle you through your monitor.

(Contributed by Glow Stick)


Don't be impatient.
Allow people some time to reply. If they haven't replied in days/weeks/months/whatnot, it's okay to remind them politely. But people have lives and/or other things to do, and the fact that they haven't replied and ten seconds have passed is NOT a cause for alarm.

(contributed by cami)