Role Playing - 2 Questions

[Lyvidian]

First off, how exactly does role playing work? I checked a few guilds; most were inactive, and the one that wasn't kinda scared me. Why? Well, I checked out how they were role playing, and all it was was dialogue (not even in quotations), like is was their avi talking. There was nothing descriptive. I'm hoping I just ran into a bad RP guild.

Next... Know any good RP guilds? Got a link? All the stuff in this guild about role playing is making me curious about it.  

[Articx-Frost]

The active one that you found seems wierd to me as well, and I'm an avid roleplayer.

Wikipedia

Roleplaying is a way in which the participants assume the roles of characters and collaboratively create stories. Participants determine the actions of their characters based on their characterization, and the actions succeed or fail according to a formal system of rules and guidelines. Within the rules, they may improvise freely; their choices shape the direction and outcome of the story.

Basicaly, A group of people get together and create a story, each controling a different character in said story. It's a multi-man story making team.

As for wanting an active place to roleplay, trythe roleplay refuge. They're friendly and are happy to teach people who want to get better.
Does this help any?  

[Giyari]

wiki's got it dead on there.
Another guild to check is this one, owned by the captain of THIS guild. It's pretty fun, well I'm enjoying it anyway xD

RPing can be a bit awkward some times, as your posts also rely on the quality of the last persons, so if they lack something you'll probably lack it too without wanting to lol.
but that being said it's still a lot of fun and easy too once you get into it and used to the formats  

[Giyari]

lol yeah :3
Well the two are my main RPing places just now XD  

[Secret Kirari]

Yeah... you definitely just ran into a 'bad' roleplaying guild. I use quotations because it is bad as it is not what you were hoping/looking for, yet is not actually bad because... well, obviously someone must like it, right?

I'm in 5SM and RPR. They're both wonderful, from what I have seen. biggrin  

[Kenutsu Yasashiku]

I have not done much of anything with the literate or advanced literate role-plays, but I have done plenty of semi-literate ones. The quality of the role-play can vary greatly depending on the people involved. I have seen ones where everyone is describing their actions and putting their dialog into quotes, and I have seen ones where I have no possible way of telling what is going on. They would have no separation between actions and speech, nor would they have ANY punctuation. So a long post would just be one run on sentence.

For some role-plays you could go to my guild, if you wanted. We currently are still trying to get the ball rolling again, and all the current role-plays are semi-literate. However if you wanted you could check it out. We are trying to cater to as many people as we can, so if you want a literate or advanced literate role-play all we would have to do is start one.  

[Lyvidian]

Thanks for the replies/links, everyone! =] I'll have to hunt me down one of them "lit/literate" or "adv-lit/advanced literate" RPs.