(06-23-2014, 02:37 PM)Clover Wrote: What's important to me is that the character feels alive and makes sense. So long as those remain true, I should enjoy RPing with them.This sums it up for me, pretty much. Though I also try to ensure that my characters (as others have pointed out) have areas in which they aren't competent, mainly to provide more hooks to RP with other people.
Now here's an interesting point, in my mind: Just because a character isn't competent in some area doesn't mean that they have a huge glaring weakness that shows up everyday. They might not be aware of this weakness; they might not care about it; they might structure their life such that this weakness simply never comes up. To them, they may be self-contained and capable. Yet when they're faced with a problem that plays to this weakness, they're suddenly faced with something they can't do themselves.
