Archbishop Monk Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 Just wondering if anyone else lets their characters, evil or good, have flaws? Not like nervous ticks or stuttering, but actual character flaws like insecurity or anxiety. Do you let that develop your motives? Do you let other characters accomplishments or failures change your viewpoints? Just my 2 cnts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imoutgoodbye Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 Just wondering if anyone else lets their characters, evil or good, have flaws? Not like nervous ticks or stuttering, but actual character flaws like insecurity or anxiety. Do you let that develop your motives? Do you let other characters accomplishments or failures change your viewpoints? Just my 2 cnts Insecurity? Usually after I get PKed a few times. So, also yes to other characters accomplishments/failures on viewpoints, especially if I had failed or accomplished what they could/could not. Also, just for fun, pick some random songs, pick ONE that you really like, and build some attitude from it. "I'm bringin' sexy back....." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archbishop Monk Posted January 31, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 "I'm bringin' sexy back....." I hate you! That song is in my head now........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imoutgoodbye Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 I hate you! That song is in my head now........... That's odd....I don't remember ministering.....:confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archbishop Monk Posted January 31, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 That's odd....I don't remember ministering.....:confused: Great........they changed it again. Now Valek can minister without having to offer a single prayer. OP!! There goes my current. Time to roll up a monk to take care of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croyvern Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 Heh, I have been considering playing an utter Coward. No its not original, but I can not remember the last time someone played one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elfrosto Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 I've thought carefully about playing a mute..but it'd be really hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imoutgoodbye Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 I've thought carefully about playing a mute..but it'd be really hard. *starts to open his mouth, then stops* I'll let someone else get this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elfrosto Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 I know i know, the world would be better if I was mute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imoutgoodbye Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 I know i know' date=' the world would be better if I was mute.[/quote'] No more than if I was mute. However, I do need one of you to RP a Chaucer for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KRins Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 I guess the answer would require a question...is self-berating a flaw or just me acknowledging my severe lack of clout? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim_Reefer Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 I don't like when people start at level 1 and already have their whole RP set in stone. My characters have a general goal when they first arrive in the forsaken lands, but I let my interactions with others effect my decision making. That way rp spreads and grows instead of the usual: Person A: Blah blah blah, cleanse the Aabahran of evil, blah blah blah Person B: The power of darkness will butt you up good. Person C: lol, wut? I don't know. It just seems like a lot of people's rp is too close-ended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Totenkopf- Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 WHen your level 1, you ralready 15, 20, 30 years old. You can set your age at character creation, so if course you already have some experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jibber Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 I find it a lot easier to start RPing a level 1 as if I were to the rest of my character's life. Everyone notices, people enjoy it more, and I get more out of the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croyvern Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 I've thought carefully about playing a mute..but it'd be really hard. Voice of Experience, Rp's that can not speak are incredibly Hard. Do you wish to group? You reply "Squak!" The novelty wears off.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jibber Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 I was Unst! *bows* Found it really fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hegemon Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 Galvatar was an ego-maniac with a psychological addiction to command. Cylandas was an unbalanced coward who's decisions were mostly dictated by me rolling dice to determine which course of action he would take. It depends on what you consider "flaws", I suppose. I've played intensely stupid characters who have been very obviously (from the player's perspective) manipulated into doing things which have gotten my characters killed, robbed blind, marked for death by powerful cabals, outlawed, etc. While I, as a PLAYER, may know that inside that no-scan, no recall deathtrap is a level 60 Mob who is about to eat me for breakfast my CHARACTER has no clue and therefore just happily strolls in, thanking the nice Drow for the "great tip". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nomak Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 Cylandas was an unbalanced coward who's decisions were mostly dictated by me rolling dice to determine which course of action he would take. So it was you who played Cylandas and blew up my super crusader weapon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandbox Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 when ur "born" (lvl 1) as a 300-800 year old elf you better have some kinda backstory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Antisonic Posted February 1, 2010 Report Share Posted February 1, 2010 The Bard Herald Chaucer from the Knights tale movie? Or Bard Royal Chaucer Historical Figure who wrote the Canterbury Tales? Just curious as I see them as distinctly different... ANd for the record I would like to see some one play Aracite. A knight (Human Warrior Knight) who is cowardly and rellies on the accomplishments of others and yet still gets ahead and excels.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imoutgoodbye Posted February 1, 2010 Report Share Posted February 1, 2010 Herald Chaucer is far funnier and I can't read Royal Chaucer's Old English....*sigh* However, there's so many ways to do your RP. No one's right. No one's wrong. Age? Yeah, you have some life experience. However, it's usually NOT from travelling the world and after you've joined the guild, you meet powerful people you may not have met, only heard of, before. Therefore, your eyes have yet to be opened still. If you want them to be opened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Antisonic Posted February 1, 2010 Report Share Posted February 1, 2010 Funny, I'd play Herald Chaucer as Loudmouthed drunk, panhandelin' uppercuttin drunk with a fixation on nudity and gold, And get bountied often and have no friends... Royal Chaucer would have a chip on his shoulder, write long boring hard to read notes, want to be involved in every bodies lives and have lots of friend Now playing De Sade, would be fun.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandbox Posted February 1, 2010 Report Share Posted February 1, 2010 The Bard Herald Chaucer from the Knights tale movie? Or Bard Royal Chaucer Historical Figure who wrote the Canterbury Tales? Just curious as I see them as distinctly different... ANd for the record I would like to see some one play Aracite. A knight (Human Warrior Knight) who is cowardly and rellies on the accomplishments of others and yet still gets ahead and excels.. this reminds me of my immediate supervisor at work. He stills my work all the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadHieronimo Posted February 2, 2010 Report Share Posted February 2, 2010 Now playing De Sade, would be fun.. Heh, then I would roll up a Petrarch and when we weren't opposing each other in poetry and prose I would be doing everything I could to con-death you As for flaws, I think complex characters are the most reaslistic for ME to roleplay. I find it hard to roleplay narrow minded people (unless they tend towards the purity lines of things ). With Duraziel, a necromancer, he was basically that way because he would do anything to bring back the one he loved that had died. He would kill an innocent, but only because he valued her life over theirs. He wasn't necessarily a bad person, he was just in love He also thought that in a way he was benefitting the whole of mankind to kill people and raise them again. He knew he had become polluted and such, and that she may not have been proud of him, but that was his cross to bear. I thought a martyr like character would be fun, an avatar that constantly battled his conscience, maybe to the point of borderline schizophrenia. Maybe the character that realises his actions in life are going to damn him, but thinkgs that its what he has to do.. Just things that leave room for growth and non-linear progression. I think RP that smacks of tragedy and human nature (I don't think anybody is purely good or evil) is the most interesting and fun to play. Just my thoughts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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