Playing an anti-social character, like everything else RP requires a lot of thought and planning. I have seen, and experienced myself, the negative effects of playing a character that is brilliant in a lot of other aspects, but not in the one where 40-50% of the RP is gonna happen. One of the big ways that one can go wrong, I find is when you set too many limits upon your character, many times I've heard from players that they can not find RP, because their character would never visit a tavern, because they are anti-social. I would encourage anyone stuck in that situation to give an attempt at a different approach - Bring your character to that tavern. Is he/she going to like it and sit about smiling? No! They'll likely be grumpy (Or scared, depending), they might not even say thanks for that drink they couldn't do without - Make them act like a guest you'd never invite home. Sitting alone in the farthest away corner makes it difficult for people to interact with you, because they need a reason to do so - So instead of doing that, walk up to the bar and claim that someone took your favorite spot and they have to move. Dare to sit right in the spotlight and emit so much grumpy that people'll feel compelled to ask why. When you catch people's attention in an interesting way, you might even find yourself getting followed outside by a curious soul - providing an opportunity for your character to ease up the grump cause they're not in a social setting anymore - and that's where real friendships are forged, slowly but surely you can find your character develop new tendencies over time which might make him/her feel less anti-social in familiar social situations, but where the full onset of say, grumpiness, is still felt if anything new happens.Â
Oh and, if other characters try to help your character "get over" something, such as scared and shy-ness, please follow along - I am not saying you need to change into a bedazzling fancypants charmer over night, but when people keep on trying and never see any improvements despite their very best attempts, it's going to discourage them from trying eventually, or maybe even kill the relation completely. Most people I've met who have social characters will feel some kind of need to help or fix whatever is (appearing to be) broken in a person.Â
Having had a few characters being on the other side of the fence, so to speak, I really do not blame people for not interacting with people who are sitting in a corner being quiet. Unless you, like my current char Sastra have a reason for going to a person like that (To offer a drink, waitress and all) I have a hard time seeing why anyone would. There of course are a few reasons that could work, but it'd depend on having a character that carries traits that'd proc them, and those might be rare to meet on a random chance encounter.Â
Sorry for the novel, I hope some of it made sense
Oh and, if other characters try to help your character "get over" something, such as scared and shy-ness, please follow along - I am not saying you need to change into a bedazzling fancypants charmer over night, but when people keep on trying and never see any improvements despite their very best attempts, it's going to discourage them from trying eventually, or maybe even kill the relation completely. Most people I've met who have social characters will feel some kind of need to help or fix whatever is (appearing to be) broken in a person.Â
Having had a few characters being on the other side of the fence, so to speak, I really do not blame people for not interacting with people who are sitting in a corner being quiet. Unless you, like my current char Sastra have a reason for going to a person like that (To offer a drink, waitress and all) I have a hard time seeing why anyone would. There of course are a few reasons that could work, but it'd depend on having a character that carries traits that'd proc them, and those might be rare to meet on a random chance encounter.Â
Sorry for the novel, I hope some of it made sense
