(06-28-2015, 01:56 PM)Arklonn Sargonnai Wrote: True, but that also comes down to playing style. Some actually find it difficult to play more rough characters, even if they're not playing a fancy noble. For myself, it's difficult sometimes because I like to think I have moderately good grammar, spelling, speech abilities. Stepping out of the ability to have such things is hard because I grew up being literate at a young age, learned to read quickly and developed my writing skills early. It's actually harder for me to use impolite speech or write in things like accents (because I often forget to add said accents in speech, which is my own fault, but I digress).
To that end I generally play characters who have at least a rudimentary education, or come from a more middle class sort of background. Not wealthy, but not dirt poor either. If my character also has a profession, which most characters do that isn't mercenary or bounty hunter or something of that line, they generally have basic reading skills for processing orders or sending out things. But this is totally off topic, so I'll actually stop my summary there.
Adventurers I'd think, might find a reason to at least learn to read because after a while, people will start to fleece you if you can't. Even if not noble born, they might also have done work for them at one point, and likely would have had to learn certain skills. There's a whole spectrum of people who work with high class individuals that have to at least be able to do certain things, so I think it's not as unrealistic in-lore for *some* lowborn types to have gotten there on their own or through training, but at the end of the day I think a lot of it is player stylistic more than a fully even portrayal.
I struggle with that myself. My two main characters are a crusty blade and a disgraced noble. I have to take great efforts to keep their speaking styles different.
Part of it is obviously word choice. For example if something bad happens:
Evangeline - "Heavens Forfend!"
R'elend - "Fucking hell."
But one can only swear so much, there are other tells, like Evangeline never uses 'Aye' or 'Oy' or any of that. She tends to use people's correct titles, unless they are friends, etc etc.
However I slip up a lot, usually it's making my Blade too refined, same as yourself. But I just play it off as him being smarter than he appears. I have great respect for those who can consistently keep up an accent/manner of speaking for their character.
