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(08-20-2015, 05:52 PM)McBeefâ„¢ Wrote:Then that is a problem (arguably) with writing style, and not the player presuming to play something not like themselves. I agree you should show, not tell, but that only tell me the writer is inexperienced or perhaps not accustomed to rp, not too dull to play their character.(08-20-2015, 05:46 PM)Caspar Wrote:(08-20-2015, 05:39 PM)UMcBeefâ„¢ Wrote: I just think that people should play characters as people and not a collection of tvtropes.But it's natural to want to play something specific. I dissent from the majority of players on here in that I do not see characters as people, and rp as group writing with some improv, rather than acting. Both exist to tell the story you're trying to articulate, and whether you can write it or not is independent of said character's traits but does color the execution to some extent. It is important to flesh them out and make them believable as hypothetical people of course, but every character I've made has a specific purpose in mind, and the background and traits necessary to execute it.
There is no need to artificially declare your character is smart, stupid, strong, weak. Just play it ICly and let people come to their own assumptions.
I've played enough of a diversity of character types to find writing "myself" pedestrian and bland. I've no interest in whether others think writing a character whose personality or competencies do not align with my own is "above my station."
That's fine, but why do you have to publicize it? What is the advantage of letting everyone know OOCly.
'My character is really smart!!!'
Instead of just playing them in a way that suggests that through IC action.
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