heyas;
so i'm a long time rper, and been playing neverwinter nights for a couple years now. and i still sorta look askance at sl an try to figure out how to rp in this environment. firstly and formostly, forget adding linked accounts for ten bucks a pop (or creating unassociated freebie accounts, for shame!), and not even being able to make up ANY character name i want? plus you can only get five. i make more characters than that!
anyhow, i haven't seen any solution to that whole mess there, so i made one. the RP Tool.
first, it's just a sphere, you wear it so that it floats overhead. no, its not exactly invisible, it should be clickable. and yes, it has hovertext on it, and you use that to label yourself with your character name.
you can control the display text, colour, and opacity, as well as the orb colour and opacity. (either by using slash commands or by clicking on the orb.) you can also change the object name to that of your character name, and use it to 'speak' as your character. ie: its a simple mic/repeater.
you can also set a short (255 characters) description of your character. this will be displayed in the dialogue box whenever someone clicks on your orb. well, i missed being able to right click and 'examine' people like you can in nwn, to get their details. some people wrote huge life stories on those things... and for THOSE people, there's an option to include a notecard with all that in the tool that can be handed out to those who are clicking on your orb. :)
it has a coin function so you can flip a coin. and an /r#d# function to roll any number of any-number-sided dice you want. (it will only display individual die results for 12 dice or less, otherwise, you only get a total).
it is NOT a combat system or rp system or a character sheet. it's just a little tool to help you rp as different characters.
i have released it under the creative commons attribution license, which means you can use it for free, distribute it for free, and/or you can combine it with whatever you want and sell it, as long as somewhere in the fine print it says 'uses bloodsong's rp tool.'
you can get the rp tool from my omni orb at the art door headquarters. (the omni orb is a tip jar/freebie giver/landmark dispenser/online indicator -- another one-prim wonder from yours truly ;D )
you can get slurl from my web page. enjoy!
http://bldsong.net/2L/