(12-16-2013, 11:56 PM)Seriphyn Wrote: I'm not a fan of dark, brooding characters purely because...well, how many people in real-life do we know that go through traumatic experiences but nonetheless remain pretty normal 99% of the time?Â
People go through cancer, loss of family members, rape, and such other tragic things, and yet you can still take them to the pub or club and they'll party the night away like any other normal person would.
(Above is mixture of personal opinion and non-hostile provocation to get people's counter-thoughts to build on my own!)
I think it depends on the degree of broodiness, how bad [insert traumatic experience here] was, and how well the player pulls it off.
Fantasy worlds can set up some pretty devastating scenarios that we can't really relate to in real life, and it hits a point where it actually comes off a little weird if your character is super well adjusted and happy afterwards. Hell, there are a lot of real life scenarios where it's a little weird if that person is super well adjusted and happy afterwards.
That said, I think there is something to be said about being *too* anti-social like Magellan mentioned. Far be it for me to say someone's RPing wrong, but if trying to RP with a broodtastic character is like pulling teeth to get decent responses, they're just screwing themselves over. It just becomes annoying trying to RP with them and that's not too fun for anybody.
