[Frey gestures at her own tag, drawing a box with a finger around one of the peculiar lines of bracketed text.]
Sometimes it feels like everyone has their own name for these things, but if you call them "brackets" people will know what you're talking about. "Actiontags" is the other one our player knows, and she's also heard "commentspam", but that also refers to a different style of RP that we might or might not talk about later.
When you write your tags like this, you write the dialogue normally, and everything else goes in brackets - actions, thoughts, player commentary, anything. Our player likes to use brackets because she plays mostly from video games and drawn media and the focus on dialogue feels a lot like the way we appear in our own canons.
It's...actually not that different from prose. Some people will say that they associate prose with long tags and brackets take off the pressure when they're threading things like quick back-and-forth conversations that don't need much more than dialogue, or that they feel like they can be more casual in brackets...other people will say that brackets look choppy and unnatural they have an easier time writing prose. It's all up to personal preference.
[Frey shrugs. Heck, two people don't even have to be using the same format to RP together, as long as they understand each other. She could reply to Ondorus' prose tag just fine!]
Actiontags/Brackets!
And then there's these things!
[Frey gestures at her own tag, drawing a box with a finger around one of the peculiar lines of bracketed text.]
Sometimes it feels like everyone has their own name for these things, but if you call them "brackets" people will know what you're talking about. "Actiontags" is the other one our player knows, and she's also heard "commentspam", but that also refers to a different style of RP that we might or might not talk about later.
When you write your tags like this, you write the dialogue normally, and everything else goes in brackets - actions, thoughts, player commentary, anything. Our player likes to use brackets because she plays mostly from video games and drawn media and the focus on dialogue feels a lot like the way we appear in our own canons.
It's...actually not that different from prose. Some people will say that they associate prose with long tags and brackets take off the pressure when they're threading things like quick back-and-forth conversations that don't need much more than dialogue, or that they feel like they can be more casual in brackets...other people will say that brackets look choppy and unnatural they have an easier time writing prose. It's all up to personal preference.
[Frey shrugs. Heck, two people don't even have to be using the same format to RP together, as long as they understand each other. She could reply to Ondorus' prose tag just fine!]