(01-28-2015, 07:05 PM)Verad Wrote: Have a goal. Not a long-term one like avenging the death of your dead relative, although those are of course nifty. A short-term one. Something that requires you to approach strangers and ask for help. This is more important than your character's backstory and initial personality, which can be fleshed out as necessary, and which people will generally presume you have, but are keeping under wraps until proven otherwise. A goal will get you RPing more quickly and efficiently than a personality.
Seconding this. A short-term goal is the difference between a character becoming a dynamic, evolving entity in its own right and said character lounging about hotspots all day waiting for something good to happen to them, a.k.a.:
Quote:I've yet to actually role-play much with anyone, other than messing around in the Quicksand. This due in part to not knowing how to proceed with my character, hence feeling I was incapable with RPing with anyone.
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