(01-06-2015, 11:59 AM)Ashren Snow Wrote: I'm not necessarily mean or anything, or at least not intentionally. I just sort of lack empathy I suppose when it comes to saying things that could potentially hurt peoples feelings. In most cases a person will think something and before saying it their brain tells them that is probably a bad thing to say, and online people will type something and likewise think it's a bad thing to say. For me that thought seldom crosses my mind.
Social skills are just that: skills. They can be learned. To some people they come early and easily, easily enough that they seem to simply be innate. To others, they don't. But that doesn't change the fact that they can still be learned.
(01-06-2015, 11:59 AM)Ashren Snow Wrote: It also doesn't help I think that my character is a bit salty and hard to approach, usually drunk or drinking, and when he's not he probably working on some new idea of his to pass the time. He's a be crude and brash, even a tad lecherous, the mostly just a lone wolf war vet from the Calamity.
Others have pointed this out, but if your character is hard to approach and tends to just sit around drinking on his own (when he's around other people), other folks will have no reason to approach him. If you're playing him like this and you're not satisfied with the RP you're getting, part of it might be simply because he's not the character for you. Not if you want to enjoy yourself.
Nebbs pointed this out, but it can be really fun to play a character that's desperately unlike you. That's what I did with C'kayah, and he's easily become my favorite RP character I've ever played.
