[Dolston]

Part of the point of the forum s to help new players enjoy their first experience with MET. If you had only one piece of advice to give to a new player, what would you offer?

[ROMzombie]

Wear a costume.

Seriously, get all sorts of tricked out. Bring props, go full on in character and really dive into the role. Other players will be impressed by your enthusiasm for the game, which will get you into storylines and character interactions faster. Storytellers pay more attention to the players that stand out, and having costuming on helps you to separate yourself from the assumably normal 9-5 wage slave that you pretend to be on a daily basis.

Bring soda, too, probably a couple of twelve-packs. It helps make friends.

[_vamp]

Remember that it is a game.

Does it need to be explained? People tend to forget, though.

[jadedeath]

Interact with people... get in there and introduce yourself...

you never know what your character is capable of unless you're interacting with people...

Logan

[Tuesday]

#1: Show, don't tell. Never say "my character is feeling X or my character is thinking Y". ACT LIKE IT, as best you can.

#2: SHOW. No, really, show. More. I do not give a shit about your rich internal landscape. Your value to the game is *only* in how much fun it is for everyone else to interract with you. Your character's feelings, opinions, emotions, and plans are the only thing you have to interract with other people, so damn well get out there and DO IT.

#3: Do stuff. Characters who sit around being all mysterious and spoooooky are boring as hell.

[Aleksanteri]

#3: Do stuff. Characters who sit around being all mysterious and spoooooky are boring as hell.

but but but I've got so many dark secrets from my 20 pages of background and long-developed angst I can't ever share with anybody!

[strider1276]

Remember that, even if you horribly screw over another character, or that character horribly screws you over, that it's nothing personal. It has nothing to do with you as a player. Unless something really questionable happened, be cool with it. Keep IC emotions IC. These people you're playing with are either your friends, or may very well be new friends, so OOC, be friendly!

Nobody likes gaming with the asshole who treats people like crap. Don't be that asshole.

[zenten]

Don't be a jerk. Have fun, but also try to help other people have fun too. And that doesn't mean that they have to have fun the same way you do.

[_vamp]

#3: Do stuff. Characters who sit around being all mysterious and spoooooky are boring as hell.

I actually had a chance to do both yesterday. While I didn't sit around, my low-humanity character was actually quite mysterious and spooky as hell as all I did was stand and stare at people. I did, however, move over to the people I was staring at, or actually staring next to; I wanted to give the impression of staring into the void, and whenever I spoke, I did so with a slow voice and few words after a pause which lasted a few seconds.
Needless to say, a few of the other characters admitted that I freaked them out.

Which brings us to another uncalled advice: Don't be yourself. This is interactive theatre - be your character.

This post has been edited by _vamp: 22 October 2006 - 12:11 PM