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Emotions and Lying RP Guide!


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Nozgoth’s Emotions and Lying RP Guide!

(Credit to Praetor, Lion and Draeris)

 

Reasons for this guide, and reasons you should improve your emotions rp!

-A very important reason is that it’s always easier to continue Roleplay, and feel more immersed into it when you know what the other is doing, how the other is looking and how they are reacting to what has happened, or what you are saying.

 

-Secondly, if nobody ever displays emotions or any reaction apart from talking when you roleplay, you can’t know how to react yourself to how the other is reacting, or you might not know how to continue your own actions because you don’t know how the character feels!

 

-Without emotions, RP can feel very bland, I personally have some difficulty continuing RP without them, since I don’t really know what to say sometimes.

 

Contents!

React!

Movement!

Opportunities and Inconveniences!

Fill!

Body Language!

 

Disclaimer!

This mostly applies to everyday rp, not combat rp or fighting.

 

Step 1: React to What People Say!

Don’t just answer back with speech, you can show physical emotions like cracking a smile, showing a glare, maybe even throw up your hands as if you got offended! If someone insults you at the family dinner, you shouldn’t merely insult them back or say “Hey! Stop that right now!”, instead try: Nozgoth’s face flushed with anger as he gives a dirty glare, raising his eyebrows to the man across the table “If you think that, then we can take it outside and settle this like real men!”, The mali’fenn would then storm out of the humble dinner scene.





 

Step 2: Show Movement!

In real life, you don’t stay perfectly still like a statue during a conversation, on top of step 1, you should show some movement, it doesn’t have to be dramatic but it depends on the situation. If you are in a normal conversation, try emoting a yawn, stretching, fidgeting with your fingers or the surroundings, just simple things like that every once in a while. There are various ways to implement movement into your rp, maybe you are a general discussing a pressing matter with your soldiers, you can pace back and forth in the room, trying to make a solution. Also, movement can be as simple as gesturing your hands while speaking, Just make sure it has a purpose and makes sense.


 

Step 3: Allow Opportunities and Inconveniences for Emotions to be Had!

For your character to truly have interesting emotions, you have to allow things to happen to your character. Maybe a snake nips them on the leg while adventuring, maybe they stub their toe on the coffee table, and it doesn’t always have to be negative, they could find that their bruise healed from a week ago. Just create unique opportunities for emotions to be had!


 

Step 4: Fill the Entire Conversation!

Try not to add one large paragraph of emotes at the beginning of a conversation, then have no emotes towards the end. Spread your emotes out, and have a purposeful emotion for each time you press enter. The rp will dry-out if you get lazy and stop emoting towards the middle or the end. Although, this doesn’t mean you have to write entire paragraphs each time, keep it compact but meaningful.


 

Step 5: Show Body Language! (Very Complex, so split into sub-steps)

Sub-step 1: Anger, it can be shown in many ways, here are a few.

  • Balling the fists

  • Crossing arms tightly

  • Clenching fists

  • A tight-lipped smile

  • Clenched teeth

Rp Examples!

*Rolf clenches his teeth as he protests to John "Don't bring my mother into this, fool!"*

*John balls his fist, rolling up his sleeves "Your mother works in that brothel!"*

Sub-step 2: Attraction, attraction in another person is a trickier thing to convey, here are some examples to help you.

 

  • Feet Pointed Towards the Person

  • Long eye-contact

  • Teasing

  • Leaning forwards

  • Batting eyes

  • Smiling

*Nozgoth looks to the lady sitting across from him, establishing eye-contact for a few seconds before leaning in and smirking, “Ha, ha, ha”, he would be mimicking her laugh from earlier*

 

Sub-step 3: Lying, this is also a tricky one to accomplish, but once done right it can be effective.

 

  • Covering their mouth, like a shhh gesture, or the may just cover their mouth completely

  • Touching the nose, or below the nose, often a quick, merely noticeable gesture.

  • Rubbing their eyes (mostly men)

  • Scratching the neck 

  • Staring into someone's eyes (for some reason, people think others are lying when they are not looking in the face, in fact- that is not true- when people lie, they often want to see the reaction to the lie, to make sure they are safe)

  • Sped up talking

  • Fidgeting

  • Twitching


 

How to remember: Think R.M.O.F.B.! 

(Official Slogan by Nozgoth)

React!

Movement!

Opportunities and Inconveniences!

Fill!

Body Language!

 

Made by Nozgoth

(Credit to Praetor, Lion and Draeris)

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Gonna use this quite a bit, I can already tell! +1

 

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Ur color scheme is wild, please consider hiring a ghost formatter.  Will make it easier on eyes. 

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Here are some other useful videos I sometimes watch ?can 
be useful for those who are interested in giving some flavor to their RP

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This is really useful for new and established roleplayers alike. I just can’t see the dark purple text well against the black background. 9/10

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One of the key things you will find separating good from bad writers is this simple rule. "Show, don't Tell."

 

This is essentially step 5 of the above. 

 

Don't say "Fred got angry." Say "Fred's face turned into a snarl."

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reads feed and continues to use the same gestures of nodding, narrowing eyes, and crossing arms in any type of rp interaction

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