Board Thread:Warhammer 40k Roleplay/@comment-24038204-20130912225046/@comment-14745711-20130913071855

Basically you just put up what your character and faction are doing and (to a small extent) you can say how your opponent reacts. However you yourself cannot kill anybody else's character in one of your comments, they themselves must concede defeat and death. Only the RP master, the person who makes the RP and controls the main storyline is an exception to this rule, and only under the most extreme circumstances.

If you want to RP first you will need a character.

Step 1. Choose your race: so basically select from one of the following; space marine, guardsman, sister of battle, inquisitor, grey knight, squat (haven't seen one of those yet), Eldar, dark Eldar, Necron, ork, tyranid (though not very practical), chaos space marine, chaos guardsman, renegade (like Dan Corvinos who I believe you have already met).

Step 2. Flesh out your character: this is for me the fun part. You get to choose your character's name, heratige, chapter/clan/craftworld/legion/dynasty/or anything else. You will also need-or least should-write a quick summary of your character for personal reference even if this never goes up online.

Step 3. Flesh out your faction: write up a bit of your factions history, armies and battle tactics. If you're like me, you want to go rather in depth; do this by all means but it's not such a good idea to put up pages and pages of writing which you expect other people to read since 9 times out of 10 they won't be bothered. Instead just post up the basics of your character and their faction and introduce other stuff about them as you go.

Step 4. Join an RP: this is best done before the RP has started, and you have joined up at a good time since one RP will be starting in the near future; Into the Webway. Also you could probably get into my RP, Ice Sheets of Tyranus since it won't start for a while yet, just post up your character and stats (army, fleet, wargear and retinue) in the appropriate thread. You should also be able to join The Sacking of the Dark City fairly easily since it won't start until after Into the Webway which hasn't yet begun itself.

Step 5. Read up: find out as much as you can about your opponents as there is to find and try and read as much as possible n general 40k lore on this wiki. So if you hear any terms you don't know, type them into the search box and you should find an entry about it.

I think that's about it. Of course you don't have to follow those steps if you don't want to, they are just a way of planting a few guiding lights on your path into the grim darkness of the far future. But always (unless you're a xeno, heretic or mutant.) remember, THE EMPEROR PROTECTS!