Editing Julian System PBP Guidelines (section)

==Further Guidance==

* It is not at all unusual or outré for characters to announce exactly what they are thinking and feeling. I mean, people obviously dissemble, conceal, and lie with frequency, but announcing intentions or emotions to all and sundry happens with great frequency. Elevated volume is also a thing, too.

:For instance, a barbarian might say: "The life of drafty huts and dirty hags shall no more be my own! I intend to strap on a broadsword and wander the wasteland until my attitude has been so seasoned that an adventuring company will accept me with alacrity!"

:If given an insulting offer in a negotiation, rather than brooding quietly, a character might well say: "You insult me terribly! The twin serpents of shame and wrath coil themselves around my gall-bladder and spleen, flooding me with ill humors! Modify your meretricious mode of merchanting, or mope mightily as malicious murder mocks your means of mass profiteering!"

:Obviously there are exceptions (magic spells or items which allow direct thought-to-though communication, or necessary OOC asides to explain utterly unexpected behavior), but in general characters either speak freely (on the spot or later) or else maintain stolid stoicism.

* Alliteration and exclamation points are very important, and make posts more fun to read. "What is this foolishness when innocent travelers are assailed antagonistically and abruptly? Halt henceforth and say who you are."

* Obvious descriptions of emotion are also a pretty good choice. "Bwarzo the Bad feels mad" is not a particularly great post. "Red roiling rage roams Bwarzo's ferocious face, rearranging it into a rent rictus of roaring wrath" is far preferable; now NPCs and PCs can clearly react to Bwarzo.