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Out-of-character (OOC) is a role-playing term, referring to words or actions made by the player or the avatar but not by the character. It is opposed to in-character.

As the distinction of player and character is a key of the role-play, mixing up both level of speech or actions is frowned on by the community.

Thus sometimes out of character talk is necessary:

  • tagging the dialogue, either
    • pre-pending OOC:
    • surround the text by brackets: [ ... ]
    • surround the text by parenthesis: (( ... ))
  • using Instant Message (IM) which are secret between the sender and the receiver.

It is usually recommended to keep OOC talk to the minimum.

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