I think I can echo what just about everyone else is saying in that I really worry sometimes how Nef comes off. IRL I'm very much a loner, wall flower type who has no idea how to interact with 'normal' folks. Get me around a bunch of fellow geeks and it's not a problem but, sadly, one can't always choose who you have to socialize with. When I decided to start RPing in FFXIV I drew from over 10 years of Roleplaying experience to fashion a character who could basically interact with anyone and rationalize being anywhere at any time. Those super serious, antisocial characters might have interesting backgrounds and be great for plots, but just regular socializing.. yea.. not so much fun. Even if you have a regular crew to run with there are times when your schedules don't line up and if you don't have those folks around, that type of character is just really a struggle to play. (I've done it... had whole circles of an RP community I couldn't interact with because they would literally try to kill my character, for good reason too.) Been there done that and didn't bother getting the t-shirt. Next!
So I made Nef. A Rogue, finder of lost things, and fishercat. ;-) She likes to drink, is boisterous, and just overall a (hopefully) fun person to be around. Someone who will go to just about any event... just to go, especially if there might be (free) booze involved. My hope is that once you sit down with her and she starts talking that folks realize she DOES have depth and isn't just a drunk party girl. But it's always so hard to tell.
One of the things that I like doing is having a good OOC social channel to talk to folks. Getting to know the -player- behind the character helps me, at least, separate what the character does and who the player is. Sometimes it's so much fun to sit back and kibitz what our own characters are doing. I've had whole scenes where me and the other players involved were either laughing our butts off at our character's stupidity or bashing our heads against the wall at their idiocy. Â It seems to help especially if it's a tense/aggressive situation. Maybe some folks don't like that break in immersion, but after years of those insecurities cropping up I found that the benefits far outweigh any break in immersion and make the whole RP experience better overall for it. Each to their own though.
There's probably books I could write about this but dinner is waiting.
So I made Nef. A Rogue, finder of lost things, and fishercat. ;-) She likes to drink, is boisterous, and just overall a (hopefully) fun person to be around. Someone who will go to just about any event... just to go, especially if there might be (free) booze involved. My hope is that once you sit down with her and she starts talking that folks realize she DOES have depth and isn't just a drunk party girl. But it's always so hard to tell.
One of the things that I like doing is having a good OOC social channel to talk to folks. Getting to know the -player- behind the character helps me, at least, separate what the character does and who the player is. Sometimes it's so much fun to sit back and kibitz what our own characters are doing. I've had whole scenes where me and the other players involved were either laughing our butts off at our character's stupidity or bashing our heads against the wall at their idiocy. Â It seems to help especially if it's a tense/aggressive situation. Maybe some folks don't like that break in immersion, but after years of those insecurities cropping up I found that the benefits far outweigh any break in immersion and make the whole RP experience better overall for it. Each to their own though.
There's probably books I could write about this but dinner is waiting.
