(12-16-2013, 03:30 PM)Magellan Wrote: #3 - broody characters can severly limit themselves.
Someone else touched upon this. A lot of broody characters get caught up in 'my character wouldn't fit here'. 'My character wouldn't fit there'. Essentially, you are left needing a very specific type of rp that requires a perfect storm of the right people, and the right scene, for your character to progress at all. Which isn't fair to you, or to other rpers.
Hope some of that helps! Broody chars can be a lot of fun to rp with, but it definitely requires a eeft touch!
This is kind of an important thing to touch upon. Just like real life anti-social folks kind of cut themselves out of a lot of really great experiences with other people by avoiding others - anti-social characters can cut you out of RP if you're not careful.
Sometimes its just a matter of knowing the kind of RP you enjoy and don't enjoy, and making sure that your character's anti-social-ness limits only the sort of RP you wouldn't really be into in the first place.
For example, tavern RP generally isn't my thing. I know it's a lot of fun for others, and I don't hold it against others if they do enjoy tavern RP, but on a personal level, I just don't find it interesting to sit at a bar, drinking, and talking about my day. Because of this, I'm okay with both of my characters just not having the personality for bar-hopping.Â
Other times, it's about finding creative ways to do that 'reverse-hook' that everyone's been talking about and RP around your character's limits.
So if I randomly felt the itch to tavern it up? Or there was an RP event that was tavern-related that fits my schedule and I wanted to show support for the community by going anyway? I could send my character in with a cluster of friends and have him get hilariously tanked. Maybe he's even a lightweight and it doesn't really take him all that long to get drunk and lose his "amg, i hates poeple, getawayfromme" exterior. Or maybe something great happened and he's feeling oddly celebratory. Or maybe the opposite happened and he wants to dunk his head in a vat of booze and forget.Â
There's lots of methods I could cook up to get my character in the action. Just like with a lot of things in RP - it takes you actually thinking stuff up and going with it instead of just parking your character somewhere and wondering why no one wants to talk with the socially-cripple, anti-social, dark broody loner-person sitting quietly in a corner in a tavern full of happy drunk people.
