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Approached By BDE
First person gets annoying. Too many "I"s and "Me"s. I tried first person once, and it didn't work, at all. I always stick to third person now.

Bouty Hunter/ Smuggler
Well i rp kind of compo of both i would think bit for me in first i just find to rp in first easier for me to 'express' what I'm trying to get across

Bounty Hunter
And yet the entire thread has been conducted in the first person...
Ironic.
I utilize both depending on the theme I am trying to convey. Although I try to keep away from describing what goes on here as "play".
First person, I find, is best for any true "Role Play" arc as, noted by it's name in genre, it is better suited to describe the emotions and actions of the character; "I". I find it humerous that people would advocate thrid person for the purposes of Role Play, being as, coming from the realm of Table Top and MMO; Role Play tends to indicate the posession of a single role. Thus; in making use of Third Person perspective there is unfortunate wiggle room for 'players' to describe the results of their actions as applied to others. It is interesting to me that many communites then choose to encourage members to use Third Person. Third person perspective has the advantage, however, of being the most commonly employed writing style which is generally condusive to community interaction.
Ironic.
I utilize both depending on the theme I am trying to convey. Although I try to keep away from describing what goes on here as "play".
First person, I find, is best for any true "Role Play" arc as, noted by it's name in genre, it is better suited to describe the emotions and actions of the character; "I". I find it humerous that people would advocate thrid person for the purposes of Role Play, being as, coming from the realm of Table Top and MMO; Role Play tends to indicate the posession of a single role. Thus; in making use of Third Person perspective there is unfortunate wiggle room for 'players' to describe the results of their actions as applied to others. It is interesting to me that many communites then choose to encourage members to use Third Person. Third person perspective has the advantage, however, of being the most commonly employed writing style which is generally condusive to community interaction.


Approached By BDE
Beff Pike:
And yet the entire thread has been conducted in the first person...
Ironic.
Well, if you want Kallan to be really annoying, Kallan can be annoying and use third person.

Nothingness
1st person always has seemed to be harder to describew and do without all of a sudden switching to 3rd person. Plus i've only read a few books that weren't in third person.
Into doom we fight, but in glory we die

Bounty Hunter
Beff thinks that everyone should post in the first person for the rest of this covorsation. But what Beff says, rather then what he is thinking, he voices his opinion that, "all your base are belong to us!"


Clone Commando RC-1166
Van Pax finds writing like this in this setting very odd. So he will say one more thing in 3rd person and then switch. "My name is Methos." Heh.
~Van Pax
~Van Pax
RC-1166, Van Pax
"Definition: 'Love' is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope... Love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticule, and together, achieving a singular purpose against statistically long odds." ~HK-47
"Definition: 'Love' is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope... Love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticule, and together, achieving a singular purpose against statistically long odds." ~HK-47

TNO-Navy
Kallan Hurn:
Well, if you want Kallan to be really annoying, Kallan can be annoying and use third person.
LMAO! Good one Kallan, Bellator laugh hard.
You too Kax, nice quote you got there