Take it with a grain of salt of course, but when you try to play and portray a liar for example, it's usually better to be a good liar, or at least have enough confidence in what your character says that it will work perfectly fine. When you want to play a politician, it's usually best not to be too shabby at politics. Want to play a knowledgeable scholar and teacher? Better to know at least a bit of the lore you are trying to cover.
I think to play a grey or assholish character you have to firstly be very good at separating IC from OOC - and not just the usual way, you also have to enjoy seeing your character creating conflict, at least a bit, and if it's not your thing, well, it's okay - and secondly be able to portray a realistic one. I mean, I like creating conflict, but I also know my limits: if it starts painting my character in a corner or just make it look awful OOCly when she doesn't deserve it, I might start to not like it. So yeah, know your limits and all.
Ultimately I say, nothing better than a few trials perhaps? With friends and people you know at first, that you will have told beforehand? It's not because you aren't necessarily fit for a certain kind of role that you have to close yourself to it. I used to play relatively introverted characters before, or erudites, militants and whatnot. It was more or less safe territory to me. But it was also a reflection of some of the traits I had IRL, at least in part. I decided at some point to try other types of characters. I have tried an old mentor, I have also tried the scoundrel/rogue type (which I still more or less follow right now), which implies a decent amount of extroversion and a general outlawish outlook that generally runs counter to the righteous or true neutral archetypes I used before.
Well the short answer is, I couldn't have been able to tell if I could portray such characters faithfully or not before I tried. So I tried, and it worked out. I'm generally more or less confident in my skills (unlike my social abilities IRL which are kind of the opposite angst), so it's not too much of a problem for me, and I guess it can boil down a lot to that too.
It's also a normal thing that the first sequences you play for a new characters to be or feel sloppy. A new character will rarely fit like a glove at first.
I think to play a grey or assholish character you have to firstly be very good at separating IC from OOC - and not just the usual way, you also have to enjoy seeing your character creating conflict, at least a bit, and if it's not your thing, well, it's okay - and secondly be able to portray a realistic one. I mean, I like creating conflict, but I also know my limits: if it starts painting my character in a corner or just make it look awful OOCly when she doesn't deserve it, I might start to not like it. So yeah, know your limits and all.
Ultimately I say, nothing better than a few trials perhaps? With friends and people you know at first, that you will have told beforehand? It's not because you aren't necessarily fit for a certain kind of role that you have to close yourself to it. I used to play relatively introverted characters before, or erudites, militants and whatnot. It was more or less safe territory to me. But it was also a reflection of some of the traits I had IRL, at least in part. I decided at some point to try other types of characters. I have tried an old mentor, I have also tried the scoundrel/rogue type (which I still more or less follow right now), which implies a decent amount of extroversion and a general outlawish outlook that generally runs counter to the righteous or true neutral archetypes I used before.
Well the short answer is, I couldn't have been able to tell if I could portray such characters faithfully or not before I tried. So I tried, and it worked out. I'm generally more or less confident in my skills (unlike my social abilities IRL which are kind of the opposite angst), so it's not too much of a problem for me, and I guess it can boil down a lot to that too.
It's also a normal thing that the first sequences you play for a new characters to be or feel sloppy. A new character will rarely fit like a glove at first.
Balmung:Â Suen Shyu
