The best thing I can say to my friend is this:
Many people write some of the most amazing back stories you will ever read in your life here. Â I enjoy very much reading them. Â But all of that story can be told over a camp fire in one night in game. Â Then what are you?
That is the question you must ask yourself. Â What are you? Â What makes your character real? Â What do they desire? Â What drives them? Â What makes them unique and memorable? Â
There will lots of mages fighters singers dancers all kinds of stuff out there when we go live again. Â You will be one of them as will I and everyone else. Â What makes you different?
I agree with Eva that it is more grey area then a good vs evil thing. Â Cloud and Squall were the lead good guys of FF 7 and FF 8 respectively but they could hardly be considered D & D Paladins but they did good by their acts.
 As far as the powers thing I agree that people can tend to say I am the best at this but speaking from 1.0 exp that is as far as I saw it go.  Sometimes it is just better to say I am a very good *blank* or I am very skilled at *blank*.  That way people recognize your skill without being turned off by your need to remind everyone how good you are.
Meeting other people can be hard I won't lie to you on that. Â Even if you are fortunate enough to catch someone outside their group and/or shell chances are they will have to cut a session short because they have to get back to their group. Â People including myself are people of habit. Â They will always go back to what they are most comfortable with.
I don't think you are doing anything wrong in trying to get in on RP you just need to throw yourself out there a bit and see who will take you in and if that group works for you.
I would love to hearmore about your character's personality and goals for that reason.
Thank you and good luck!
Many people write some of the most amazing back stories you will ever read in your life here. Â I enjoy very much reading them. Â But all of that story can be told over a camp fire in one night in game. Â Then what are you?
That is the question you must ask yourself. Â What are you? Â What makes your character real? Â What do they desire? Â What drives them? Â What makes them unique and memorable? Â
There will lots of mages fighters singers dancers all kinds of stuff out there when we go live again. Â You will be one of them as will I and everyone else. Â What makes you different?
I agree with Eva that it is more grey area then a good vs evil thing. Â Cloud and Squall were the lead good guys of FF 7 and FF 8 respectively but they could hardly be considered D & D Paladins but they did good by their acts.
 As far as the powers thing I agree that people can tend to say I am the best at this but speaking from 1.0 exp that is as far as I saw it go.  Sometimes it is just better to say I am a very good *blank* or I am very skilled at *blank*.  That way people recognize your skill without being turned off by your need to remind everyone how good you are.
Meeting other people can be hard I won't lie to you on that. Â Even if you are fortunate enough to catch someone outside their group and/or shell chances are they will have to cut a session short because they have to get back to their group. Â People including myself are people of habit. Â They will always go back to what they are most comfortable with.
I don't think you are doing anything wrong in trying to get in on RP you just need to throw yourself out there a bit and see who will take you in and if that group works for you.
I would love to hearmore about your character's personality and goals for that reason.
Thank you and good luck!
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