Necessary to Include All Your Character's Actions?

[the_antisocial_hermit]

Maybe because weaker characters aren't necessarily smaller, just weaker? And stronger characters aren't necessarily large? It would depend on exactly how you RP'd it though..

[DylPickle]

True, but realistically....
80% of the time you can gauge who is strong and who is not.
I work in a warehouse, and I've seen some tiny people move some heavy stuff, but that comes down more to technique, not "strength".

[the_antisocial_hermit]

I know a tiny person that is very strong and it has nothing to do with technique or size and everything to do with fitness. You really can't gauge who is strong and who isn't based on size. Muscles maybe, but not necessarily size.

[SekoETC]

I describe one of my characters as "little black man" although he's very strong and an expert. He was spawned short but has perfect muscles. Another character of mine is tubby but average strength. I assume he has some muscles under the padding. I rarely imagine my characters to be very tall (save for Jay), usually the guys are about 175 cm. But seems like everyone expects guys to be over six foot tall to be worth anything. I remember this one time one of Anthony's characters was picking a fight with one of mine and he rp'd his guy having to look up to my guy and it felt funny because my guy is one of my 175 cm guys. So I started wondering how short is this other guy, 160 or something?

I know what my characters look like, all of them save for the new Finnish kids. But I'm often afraid to include appearance in rp because it might look vain and flashy. For example Jaina usually has a French braid (that looks little better than a rat's tail because her hair is so thin), but I can't rp this ingame because it would raise too much attention. So I just assume that she has her hair neatly combed on most days and only make a "noise" about it when she's upset and doesn't bother to take care of it.

[Nosajimiki]

I tend to lean towards a simple discription of what a person does because what might be visably noticable to all could be:

You see Jack Someone whisper to Jane Doe.
Jane Doe sais: "*Looks over her shoulder at the door to Some Building while tightening her fists.*"
Jane Doe leaves The City entering Some Building.

If I did not know what had been going on, I would not know if she where going inside angry to pick a fight or holding things in and about to go cry in a corner somewhere, or what ever, thus it was well RPed. If I said:

You see Jack Someone whisper to Jane Doe.
Jane Doe sais: "*She turns toward Some Building fighting back tears*"
Jane Doe leaves The City entering Some Building.

Any newspawn would know off the bat what was going on even if the charie was supposed to be generally good at controling her emotions. The second discripter might work well for a bipolar character, but in most cases, spelling it out too little is better than too much.