Roll Playing? I'll have to go and check it out. Are there rules like staying in first person (or third person)? Hmm...sounds like fun!
Depends on the thread... you create your own character and "flesh" them out in the posts you write, trying to keep inline with the game's topic and whatever rules they have laid down... for instance in Port Royal, we try to keep it historically correct...ahem... but we have all taken our own personas and try to build on them there, so when we attend an event, we have a "history"... much easier to stay in character before the public then...