Whether you "believe" you already know all about what moding is or not, it is probably best each of you get a finer idea by reading the following information. Soon after that, you can never claim to having not been warned.
MODER: A character that has been fairly killed in RP, that seems to keep coming back, or decides not even to acknowledge that their character was killed at all.
A character that has "god-like" abilities, preventing it from ever being killed, or even harmed in any way. A person who doesn't follow the proper guidelines of online role play that can cause an act of moding in various different forms (as described in this page).
MODING: The act of perpetrating the ideals befitting a moder.
Most Common Types of Moding:
More often than not role players, even the best of them unknowingly mix real life knowledge with their role-play and/or someone else’s. Although this isn't as much of a problem and controversy as other things permeating online role-play, it can and does
cause problems. Not to mention, it is not the proper way to role-play, and is considered among the most serious acts of fouled play. We have all bordered on its unfortunate reality at one time or another . however most of the times, even in it's small measures, it is because sometimes it is hard to "remember" that you cannot use certain information on a character, that you obtained OOC (out of character).
Every role player must realize that while playing a character, he/she must always stay true to the events that his/her character have and have not encountered. This meaning that a role player must remember he/she is "playing a character", and the character is the
only one who should react to the knowledge it has.
Here are some examples. These examples are the most common, in which role players cannot differentiate OOC and character knowledge.
#1...The MOST common
"Greeting & Acknowledgements"
Let's say that you are in a realm or house. In enters a character with the name "Lestat DeLioncourt". With your character, you type in, "Greetings Monsieur Lestat...". Now Lestat is a character that you (or your character) have never met. So the correct way to have played out the greeting, would be to NOT use his name. Even if either you or your character DID in fact know the entering character, you would still need to wait for a PROPER ENTRANCE prior to greeting him/her . A situation like this, often results in the unknown character asking your character, "What....are you psychic or a mind reader??" Don't take such a sardonic or a less that sociable remark as an insult. The chances are, you brought it upon yourself. You are obligated, as the role-player, to pay attention to such details.
You cannot use your real life knowledge, of seeing a characters name entering a chat room (or even on a message board), to your "characters" advantage. You are playing a CHARACTER in that realm, NOT yourself.
This happens all too often, and it is regretful that people are further away from truly knowing how to role-play than they actually are. Just because you are a talent or prodigy at typing some creative material, does not mean that you know ALL ethics and rules involved by any means.
#2...
"Real Life Knowledge of Character Profiles"
MSN profiles, although a near necessity for any role play character, are hardly ever used in the correct fashion. This will be rather complicated to explain, but I will do the best that I can.
MSN profiles are NOT there, to give other "characters"
knowledge of the character. Abilities prior to engagement. whether they are the little ones in your chat profile, or entire profile pages that we all type up in their history, abilities, etc. The information is there for OOC knowledge of the fellow typist’s in the realm or house. Not the characters themselves. when a situation involves OOC, needing to "clear something up" that happened in role-play, then is what the reference to profiles is used for in primary.
Here is an example.....
Donovan Volar has established for his character, the history of being an illegitimate son of a Roman Caesar. He created for his character, a direct bloodline to this Roman Caesar, and was later embraced and made Vampire. Now one day, someone comes online playing the actual Roman Caesar that Donovan Volar is son to. Now, no matter what the circumstances, the person playing the Donovan character, has every right to role play that his character is son to that other character. His proof....in his profile. In a situation like this though, it is NOT recommended that you try to create ANY character or storyline, off of someone else’s "all original" creations. That is a way of dictating, and/or altering what someone else created on their own, and you have no right to do so. That is why some people prefer to make everything up about their character, the character's history, powers and abilities, rather than using something that is widely known, or something from a movie. Role players have no rights to those characters, as one who created their character from scratch would, and you should always take that into consideration, before you try making ANY role-play off of someone else’s.
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