Free Form Role Playing

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What is Free Form Role Playing?

There are as many definitions of Free Form Role Playing (FFRP) as there are players who enjoy this type of game. For the sake of brevity, only three are quoted here:


Rings of Honor explains FFRP thus:

". . . you have complete creative control over how you play your character, where they come from, and what happens to them. No one can seriously affect your character without your consent, nor can you seriously affect someone else's character without their consent. Rhydin would be a boring place if every character kept to themselves and no one mingled, battled or created mischief. In order to make role-play exciting in a free-form environment, cooperation among players (or "cooperative role-play") is essential."


Red Dragon Inn attributes this explanation to Kairee, a former supervisor for AOL’s Free Form Gaming Forum:

"Free Form Role-play is best likened to a combination of "Director-less" Improvisational Acting and collaborative story-writing/telling."


Dragon’s Mark FAQ has another simple definition of free form roleplaying:

"Free Form Role-Playing is like a big game of make-believe. You create a character for the setting you wish to play in, and what happens next is up to you and how your character interacts with the others around it."


Key Concepts

Taken together with the above definitions, Cooperation, Consent, and Courtesy are key concepts for free form roleplaying.

  • Cooperation: Roleplaying of any style, free form or otherwise, is a mutual endeavor which requires cooperation between the players to progress and succeed as an interactive experience in a shared environment.
  • Consent: In free form roleplaying, nothing can happen to your character without your consent. Your character is your creation and is subject only to your control; no one can require your character to suffer emotional or physical trauma or death. The reverse is also true – you cannot affect another character without that player’s consent.
  • Courtesy: Courtesy is the oil that keeps community friction to a minimum. Practice it!


Where to Find FFRP

FFRP Forums


FFRP Chats


Sources

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