*Longer roleplays are not necessarily better roleplays*
If you drag on and on in a roleplay the reader will lose interest and will eventually stop reading your roleplays all together. The prez head usually senses this and therefore you will lose. Keep it fairly long, but don't overdo it.
* Do not make too short of roleplays*
Just as in the case of too long of roleplays. There can also be too short of a roleplay. When your roleplays are too short, then they also do not hold the reader's attention because there is nothing there to grab their attention! If you make to short of roleplays, be fair warned, no matter how good you think it is, you will lose.
* Keep vulgar language down to a minimum*
No one wants to hear endless swearing. Besides, if you read it outloud to yourself, don't you think it sounds pretty stupid? Think about it...when in real life do you ever see a wrestler swear. Not many do, and when they do they keep it to a minimum. It wont be that big of a problem unless you do it continuously. We don't mind a little swearing, but not too much.
* Have a good subject to your roleplay*
When you blabble on and on about many different subjects in one roleplay the reader tends to get lost and eventually loses interest. As said before, when you begin lose a reader's interest, you begin to lose matches.
* Create scenery for your roleplay*
Be creative with your roleplay. Make it like you are in the locker room or at your house drinking some Jack Daniels. Adding scenery to your roleplays help the reader understand where you are, what your mood is, what your attitude is, and in a nut shell, who your whole wrestler is. It could even be in a fast food place or at some kind of restuarant, just make up something.
* Don't make too many roleplays for an upcoming match*
Once again, when you make too many roleplays for a certain match or too many in succession, the reader begins to lose interest in you and your character. And also, in case you haven't found this out, other people aren't too fond of having the roleplay board filled up by one person! Save that roleplaying ability of yours for another day. If you use up all your new ideas in one day the next day your roleplays will most likely all sound the same because you have used up all of your good ideas!
* Don't hurt another wrestler or federation employee in your roleplays*
First of all, this is not a way to make friends in a federation, and second, you are basically breaking the roleplaying code. Many feds already state when you join that if you attack another wrestler in your roleplay you will be fired from the federation in definitely, but if you want to take the chance go right ahead. But don't expect to win any matches. If you want to hurt another wrestler in your roleplays get our permission and his permission and if you want to hurt an official just ask one of us, we'll almost always ok it.
* Find your opponents weak spot*
Many a wrestler are tempormental when you arise certain subjects in your roleplays. For example, if your opponent once lost to a pethatic jobber a long time, feel free to mention that in one of your roleplays, make him feel stupid, make him get angry, because all the anger will only hurt his ability to make a good roleplay against you and will cause him to make mistakes. The key to roleplaying is out speaking your opponent and i guarentee you, if you hit a weak spot of theirs, you will definitely do it.
* Check your roleplay for spelling or grammar mistakes*
A roleplay with a bunch of misspellings not only looks stupid, but it makes your wrestler look bad. You might be meaning something else, but because you worded it wrong, or spelled something wrong, they got a different message from you, and might cause you to look like a fool.
*First, when you write a roleplay, you should try, at all costs, to make your roleplays look nice. I'll be the first to tell you that it is difficult to think of new, exciting roleplays that people enjoy reading. Sometimes you draw a blank, but need to roleplay for your upcoming match anyway. The least you can do in this situation is at least make your roleplay look nice. Here are some bad examples, followed by good examples, of how to make your roleplay look sweet:
*Horrible Roleplays:
"HAY U IDIOT IAM GOING TO BEAT YOUR SHITTY ASS TOMOROW NIGT THEN IM BETING THE CHAPM AFTR THAT YOU SUX!"
"i hate you god damn you are bad im beating you next week asshole lets fight for the belt"
*Good Roleplays:
"I'm going into this match with nothing to lose. I've been training hard all week for this match, and I know that you stand absolutely no chance of beating me."
"Christopher Cool sits in his lush 4 bedroom penthouse laughing as he reads the comments made by Damon Matthews. He takes a sip from his wine and stares straight into the camera.
First of all, Damon, you're not going to beat me. Understand? Second, after I beat you up and down the ring and take that precious World Title of yours, I'm gonna take your girl too! So all I have to say about the match is... you're going DOWN!"
*Now, certainly the first two were at best, pathetic. The first example was, quite possibly, the WORST attempt at a roleplay, EVER. All capital letters, no spelling, only one punctuation, everything about this roleplay was bad. I've actually seen World Champions roleplay like this. Isn't that hard to believe? The second example was not much better, in fact, its basically the same thing with smaller letters and better spelling, but still, it sucked. This is how most people begin to roleplay. Using meaningless cuss words and having no thought for the roleplay. The guy who wrote the second one may last a little longer than the first guy, but not too much longer.
*The two good roleplays, while not too ingenius, would still destroy either one of those bad roleplays by a mile. The first example took me about 20 seconds to think of and write. That's how easy it is. Of course, if that's all you do, you won't beat someone who knows how to roleplay, but at least its better than the bad examples. The second good example was a little better. It had a description of the surroundings, and a little more thought to it. This is very basic, and everyone should do it for a while when they first start out. I did it all the time, and, in fact, I once wrote about 5 pages with maybe a page of it being describing the background so that the readers will know EXACTLY what's going on where I am. I stopped describing the background after using it for about 2-3 months, and that's about the length you should use it for. In any established federation, the better roleplayers win the matches. Bar none. If you show effort, you'll win at least 75% of the time. If you show little or no effort, you will win maybe 25% of the time at most.
*How many times have you watched wrestling on TV and heard someone say "you are a jobber"? In my lifetime (9 years of watching wrestling), I've heard the term used ONCE, and that was on an episode of RAW. I've never called anyone a jobber, because its stupid. Just plain stupid. It is a real wrestling term, and has no basis for being in e-wrestling. A jobber in e-wrestling can be referred to as "a bad roleplayer". Calling someone a "bad roleplayer" is 100% fine in my book, but using a term that has no meaning in e-wrestling is ludicrous. In other words, when you roleplay, don't talk like a smart. E-wrestlers have no business saying terms like "blading", "screw-job", "heat", or any other words like that. If you absolutely have to use a word like "jobber" to get a meaning across, at least use a synonym such as "jabroni" or "loser".
*Good roleplaying means creating a good character. A character that stands out from the rest. My character, The The Lunatic, is one that stands out. I created my character when I first started, and I really like playing the guy who goes out, makes fun of his opponent, acts crazy, and just plain kicks ass. It's not much of a character (and I know what the word means), but hey, I've won titles under the P.O.D.
Anyway, back to the point. EVERYONE should create a character, but its almost impossible not to associate your character with a real-life wrestler, such as Steve Austin or The Rock. However, associating your character with one of those guys, and completely copying what they do is the absolute worst thing you can do when creating your character. If you go around roleplaying saying "I'll whip your ass, son, and that's the bottom line, because Johnny Boy says so!", you will last in e-wrestling for about 5 minutes. Hey, if I want to watch Steve Austin, I'll watch RAW. Get an imagination before you create your wrestler. A very good example of someone who loves thinking up new ideas for his character's development is King Diamond. He LOVES doing that kind of thing, and he stands out for being able to create imaginative characters that don't mirror real wrestlers.
*Have you ever wondered if The Undertaker really walks around saying "Rest In Peace, ughhhh" and all that? Of course he doesn't. What is he doing then? He's carrying out his ROLE. What's a role, you ask? Well, if you asked that question, I'll kindly ask you to never visit my site, or for that matter, no other e-wrestling site again, because you simply don't have any idea of what you are doing.
A role is your character. Mark Calloway's [The Undertaker] "role" is playing a man from the darkside, with seemingly invincible powers, yadda yadda yadda. Mike Hickenbottom's [HBK] role is playing a degenerate guy who only cares about himself, and rejects authority. Things like that. If your role is playing someone who's supposed to be dead, then carrying out that persona is what you need to be doing. Most e-wrestlers talk like they are the character. Everyone's done it, and everyone's doing it now. They have no real "character" when they roleplay. But this isn't the problem. The problem is e-wrestlers who have a specifically outlined character and never play in it. Its like if The Undertaker suddenly started acting like Shawn Michaels. It just doesn't work.
*Do you ever use special fonts? Colors? Graphics? No? Well, you are missing out on a lot. One of the most entertaining parts of roleplaying is making your roleplay beautiful with the wonders of computers. When president's see these things, usually, he thinks you are trying to give it some extra effort, which never hurts. Of course, some people take it to extremes, but to the most part, people use it well. Here are some helpful fonts and other stuff that can help your roleplays shine above the rest:
Codes: (note when doing these codes you put the < in the beginning of the code and the > at the end of it.)
b Bold /b- these are to cancel it
i Italic /i
u Underline /u
br Line Break
p New Paragraph /p
Orange - font color="orange"
White - font color="white"
Red - font color="red"
Green - font color="green"
Yellow - font color="yellow"
Blue - font color="blue"
h1 Big! /h1
h6 Small! /h6
(smaller the number after "h", bigger the font size
Or you can put font size=2 or what ever size, bigger the number, bigger the font size on this one.)
*These are just the popular fonts and colors. There are many, many more special things you can do with your roleplay that will make it stand out above everyone else. Those, you must figure out on your own.
*How much cussing goes on during TV wrestling shows? Ok, some does, and the same should go with your roleplays. If you want to cuss, I don't have a problem. Some presidents do, some don't, but don't do it too much. And don't go over the limit. Don't say:
"You fuckin' faggot! I'm fucking pissed off now, and I'm going to kill your pussy ass bitch!"
Now I, for one, would kick this prick out of my federation within a minute of reading this from him. Not only does it sound like a 10 year old wrote this, but a stupid 10 year old at that. If you write like this, you will not last long in e-wrestling.
*Don't be annoying. Nobody likes it when you do the following things (Believe me, NOBODY likes it):
Type in all caps. Its considered "yelling", and it also makes you look like an idiot when you do it constantly. Writing one sentence here and there in all caps is ok for meaning, but all the time is stupid. Everyone knows who does it all the time, and how many World titles does he have right now?
*Use .gif's all over the place. I like graphics, as long as they don't take up half the page, and take 5 minutes to load. A small picture is ok, but don't over do it.
*Challenge the same guy 4 million times in a row. Hey, move on with your life! If you haven't beaten someone within, lets say, 3 times at most, you need to give it up. A heated feud is what makes e-wrestling fun, but nobody likes seeing two guys fight every week for two months. You ARE allowed to feud with more than one person, you know.
Extremely cuss. Read above.
*Write your entire roleplay in one blinding color. If you are going to use color, use it sparingly for effect. Don't write your whole roleplay in neon green, or you will lose consistently. Guaranteed.
*Continue to do things after people (or the president) ask you not to. I've seen this guy that used to schedule his own cards, even though he was not the president. The president asked him nicely, but he still did it. This guy is now one of the most hated e-wrestlers on the 'net, just because he is so annoying.
*Don't write the same roleplay every time. People will notice if you continue to recycle your roleplays. Try and find an imagination before you roleplay. That way, people will enjoy reading your roleplays, and you will be pushed because of it.
*Don't suck up to the president or the e-wrestlers. Not only will people not like you, but you will be DESPISED, and VERY QUICKLY. Most presidents have no problems posting messages from e-wrestlers that beg for wins, and that will certainly hoist you into the "blacklist" of e-wrestling.
*If you find that the character you are using you can't seem to come up with anything orginal, or your a real wrestler and frankly you can't play a good role play out with him it can be frustrating to try and come up with talking for Kane considering he does not talk. Then maybe you need to create your own mix some of the gimmicks up now i am not saying chose to be Deathwalker and have a mix of Undertaker and HBK gimmick that won't work but mixing a Undertaker gimmick with a Kane gimmick could work even better.
*I hope you have enjoyed this Roleplaying Guide. Hopefully, if you've found yourself guilty of breaking some of these rules, you'll clean it up, and have a fun time roleplaying and being a part of e-wrestling!
