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(08-20-2015, 03:18 PM)Ignacius Wrote: Going by this analogy, everyone believes Penny and Sheldon to be intelligent people.  We're talking about the equivalent of Rick Ross trying to ghost write his own scientist character in, expecting to have the audience receive him as a genius. So, are you thinking you're one of the ones who are witty?  Because that is not what I'm taking away here.
Hey, I would believe Rick Ross writing himself as a threatening, muscle-bound thug. Â Not only was he a corrections officer, but he seems to understand that lifestyle. Â But nobody is going to buy him as a scientist when he's running on his own wit.
There's no problem being as witty, intelligent, or charismatic as you can be, but punching above your weight comes across differently in RP. Â Because the writing and acting are happening simultaneously, the audience receives a character who thinks he's smarter, wittier, and more charismatic than he actually is.
Honestly, I can't even recommend people don't play a charismatic character unless they know their limits, as an aside. Â I can't stress that enough.
In any case, it's not endemic because people don't usually play characters like "genius", "charming", or "witty". Â Most experienced RPers know better. Â They throw out witty lines or are charming as a byproduct of the character, and so they operate within their limits simply because they aren't shooting higher.
And, let's be frank, we're ABLE to be things that we aren't, but can certainly RP. Â I mean, most of us can be a lot wittier than we are, but we tend to temper it with some pleasantness so we bite off a lot of our witty repartee if it's too mean. Â Our RP characters might not be anywhere near so limited.
But yes, there is such a thing as trying to play someone above your weight class, and the best way to avoid it is to let the audience decide your characters' intelligence organically and just play what your character would play. Â At the very least, someone might say, "Look, he's not Mark Twain, but the guy knows his machines."
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