[Discuss] Roleplay tag (was: duchy system rework)

[Timothy Collett]

Tessa wrote:
> Intended for and solely limited to? I mean, if someone did something 
> like this:
> 
> "Well, since you asked, let me tell you how things used to be in this 
> realm." ~Tavern-Knight takes a long drink from his mug of ale and 
> settles into his chair~ "Back in the day blahblahblah...."
> 
> There's that one speck of non-dialog text and the rest is all talk, how 
> is that supposed to be a letter? I can't tell you how many times people 
> have shouted "change the tag to roleplay dammit! The scribe didn't 
> *write* that!" for such messages.

No, certainly not "solely limited to."  Your example is most certainly a 
roleplay message.

Anything that has any narrative in it should be classified as a 
roleplay.  Anything that is purely a direct address to one or more 
people should be classified as a letter (or other appropriate type).

Timothy Collett
Anaris Family

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