User:Colin687/Colin's Guides to Role-playing

Hello, and welcome to my Guides. Feel free to read them through wether you a new user looking to get a character, or a casual one wanting to see my views on Role-playing and making characters. Enjoy ~

Characters
As a every day Role-Player here at DARP Wiki, I know a lot. Been on here 6 months or more I believe, and have been loving it! Anyway, characters. Characters are Role-play. You can not RP without a char.. I'm here to help you make interesting ones and offer you some ones you may want to look at.

Char Pages
This is the place where you have all of your background knowledge of the character you are creating. These are useful for us admins because we use them to see if you are Role-playing to what your character is like, if they are what they say, and that sort of thing. Of course Char pages are important. When making one, make it look at least intriguing to read. Such as one Bry made here: Landon Burke. This is one of the coolest char pages I have ever come across. Sometimes, however, this formating is VERY hard to work with figuring out colors and all, so for one of your more unused chars or first ones, I suggest using something like this: Amelie Hall. This is a GREAT example to a first character page. Notice the tabs. This is a place to store extra things about your character. I would suggest not using some of the ones Red has picked out to use though. This is how I think you should choose:

Room             Spells            Relationships

 Room: a place to keep your char available for RP with everyone at all times is always possible. Spells: Where you can show all the spells you have learned through your years of Hogwarts. Relationships: Where you can share all about your Enemies, Friends, Best Friends, and possibly Boy/Girl Friends :P.

Also another thing you should make is an infobox. They're right to the right of your editing bar, and you just have to insert the template and fill it in.

Description
Make sure you really bring your character to life. You don't want them to be perfect, because no one is, and don't try to be :P. Your character should have one bad aset to make them interesting and entertaining in RP's. Bring your character a soul, bring it to life, make it your own.

How to do what I just Described
I'll try my best to inform you on how to put in this new stuff I'm showing you, though if you have any questions, feel free to ask (Colin687)

Fancy Background
To do this, you will have to type in at the top: Then all you have to do is change Color's one and two to whatever color you think would look good. This is where I get all of my colors from: Help:Color. If you are a student and have a particular house you belong to, I would recomend choosing one of their lighter colors and using it with a darker version, and then a lighter one. Here, this will be more decisive:

Hufflepuff - I recommend Color 1: darkgoldenrod and Color 2:dimgrey - it looks good

Gryffindor - I recommend Color 1: firebrick and Color 2: gold - this ones complicated, but works best

Slytherin - I recommend Color 1: darkgreen and Color 2: grey - Links don't show up well, but it's a char page you won't need any most likely

Ravenclaw - I recommend Color 1: darkblue Color 2: silver - I hate to use silver because the real color I want to use is darkgoldenrod ( a color similar to bronze *Ravenclaw's true secondary color) but it doesn't match with the text color at all. even that blue doesn't fit in well :/ .. I must not be a Ravenclaw, or I'd  be able to figure this out xD

Tabs
Put tabs at the top of your charpage so you can easily get to them. Here is an example of where to use them.

Copy and paste that and put it after your background template.

Infobox
To create your infobox is like creating a summary to your character. Here is a good example of some questions that should be on your infobox:

Just fill it in nice and neatly and how you want, it is yours, and feel free to look from other peoples infoboxes as well.

I hope you prosper in your life in the wiki. Keep it up with the char's and keep us an awesome place. :D ...