Hard To Roleplay

[Marauder Moe]

Very hard for me to play an incautious character.

DItto.  I like thinking before acting.

Yeah, Me too.  I find it hard to take dangerous risks with my characters... even though things have always gone well/interesting each time I have.

I should make a character that I don't care about as much sometime, or even outright dislike.

[Zoltan]

I too am one of those people that can't play the "winners".

My characters almost always have low self-esteem and depression issues. Strangely enough, I seem to have the most fun when my character's failing or whatever. That's not saying it isn't cool when something goes right, of course. It's just nice playing the idiot/coward/naive/loser PC sometimes.

I dealt with a bunch of those issues IRL, and now that those times are all over it's kind of fun playing with those feelings again. Weird, but true. 

Anyway...

"Wise" characters are tough for me to play. So is intense, unrelenting loathing or hatred for someone. I usually have fun RPing with the people my characters hate! This makes it hard to keep the hate up sometimes.

I also have trouble PKing, though I've caused/participated-in a number of PC killings. I had a PC that killed a guy on accident once, if you can believe it. It was totally IC and everything, and my character didn't particularly care, but I felt -terrible- IRL!

[Jenred]

I find it hard to roleplay dwarves... I dont think I've played but one, in all my time here, and it was a decently unenjoyable experience. Something about them.

[Riev]

So is intense, unrelenting loathing or hatred for someone. I usually have fun RPing with the people my characters hate! This makes it hard to keep the hate up sometimes.

Same here, actually. This is relevant to me currently, as the people I don't particularly like are people that are:

Always Around
In my clan/group/circle of friends in game

So, I -have- to be nice, but I don't know how to keep up the hate! ALL ABOARD FOR THE HATE TRAIN.

[FiveDisgruntledMonkeysWit]

I once tried to play a schizophrenic Drovian 'Rinther. It was some of the best solo-RP I ever had. The trouble is, Drovians are kind of valuable. People want to hire them. He got job offers from sorcerors, gangsters, a runaway gang of elementalists... and then he was eventually caught and gemmed when he went running around southside casting spells and shouting about demons inside of him. Even then, two templars ended up in a tug-of-war over 'ownership' of him. I tried to broadcast to other players that this character was completely batty, but a lot of people either chose to ignore it for the sake of plot, or they just didn't get it. I really, really, really, really wanted to get involved in some of these nice, juicy high-magick plots that were being dangled in front of his nose, and I was tempted to have my character 'get over' his schizophrenia in order to facilitate that, even if it was horrible RP to do so. Also, I was constantly concerned that I wasn't portraying his mental illness realistically. I ended up storing him because the mental illness ended up being too much an obstacle and a challenge.

Another thing I have trouble with is mean characters. Well, not just mean... more like evil, murdering bastards. This is partly due to the fact that I'm really nice guy in real life, and I try to avoid confrontation in general. Another reason for it, however, is that whenever I do end up trying to make an evil fucker, I always ended up in a clan or a role that forces him to try and save the world. Like... I'll join a tribe or clan and read the docs and it'll be plastered with crap like "Nobles from House Whasit believe in honor and justice and caring for the common man," or what-have-you. I think for my next role, I'm going to drop the Imms an e-mail that says: "I want to be an evil bastard, and get involved with plots that let me do evil bastard things. Any suggestions for a clan?"

[Archbaron]

I find it hard to roleplay dwarves... I dont think I've played but one, in all my time here, and it was a decently unenjoyable experience. Something about them.

Yeah, something about stout, hairless things with a fervent desire to accomplish a goal has always left a sour taste in my mouth as well.

[morrigan]

I can't do the tavern sitting thing. I  hate talking to people irl..and it shows when I try to do it in game.

The short, ugly guy sits down next to you at the bar.

You look over at the short grumpy guy.

The short grumpy guy looks at you.

You both sit in awkward silence.

Think, "Alright...just say something...anything."

You say, "It burns when I pee..."

The short grumpy guy stares at you, then gets up and leaves.

Think, "Dumbass..."

Also, I can't seem to portray characters of lower intelligence. The mindset is too foreign I suppose. I observe stupid behavior in rl everyday, and I could emulate that, but I don't know the reasoning behind it, and it makes me uncomfortable.

And..no matter how hard I try, I can't seem to play a human in Allanak with even the slightest bit of criminal tendency without becoming part of a certain criminal organization.

[Kyviantre]

And..no matter how hard I try, I can't seem to play a human in Allanak with even the slightest bit of criminal tendency without becoming part of a certain criminal organization.

And consequently dying, taking at least 50% of your clan with you (...actually, no, thats any role you play...) [/tease] 

[Ghost]

Very hard for me to play an incautious character.

DItto.  I like thinking before acting.

Thirded.

And it may be for this reason I can not play throw aways.  Even though I start a throw away character, he eventually becomes something more in a few weeks.

[FantasyWriter]

I love rangers, I love dwarves, I love half-elves, I even like playing humans in between these for a change of pace.

But the only three PC's i have suicided we elves (never even played one long enough to consider storing).... I am done with them.

[brytta.leofa]

I find it hard to play someone wholly lacking in courtesy or empathy.

(Edit: Bwah! Now my post has no context!)

[Desertman]

I find it hard to play someone wholly lacking in courtesy or empathy.

I have only ever played one PC that I pulled this off with.

You dont know how many "bad guys" I have made, that end up being good guys.

[NoteworthyFellow]

I've discovered that it's very, very hard for me to play a noble.  I don't think I'm the right type of player for it, after a couple of tries in such roles.  Maybe I could handle a Templar, but to be fair, I don't know anything about what it's like to play a Templar, and it might be very similar to being a noble.  I wouldn't really know.

[BuNutzCola]

I cannot play a 'rinthi, I think.

Every time I try, I end up storing with less than two days.

I cannot play a halfling either, the mindset is so contradictory to basic human impulse for me to grasp.

[Rairen]

Criminal Mastermids.  I'm really not that clever.

Children.  I didn't like being a kid when I was one.  Noooo desire to relive the experience.

[Forest Junkie]

I think I got half elves down. A mul seems very daunting to me though. Their psyche just seems like a tough egg to crack.

[Rhyden]

Half-giants.

I find it challenging to be stupid.

[Fathi]

Half-giants.

I find it challenging to be stupid.

Just play from your heart.

You should be a natural. <3

[Rhyden]

 

[Fathi]

In all seriousness...

I find it hard to roleplay:

- Altruistic characters who share with others and give thoughtlessly without expecting a payoff on their investment.
- Trusting characters.

It's mostly because I have difficulty justifying in my mind how a lot of people would develop these traits on a world like Zalanthas. If you're wealthy, chances are you worked your ass off for it--why would you just share the wealth with people who haven't done anything for you? Or if you were born into said wealth, you were probably bred and raised to think that those common grebbers are below you. So why give them 'sid or favours or stuff?

And why would you follow a total stranger into a secluded area with a locked door? Everybody's out to take your shit and business can be done in public places. I think that, by and large, Zalanthans would be an extremely suspicious lot.

Oh, that and I'm an ultrabitch IRL so I just can't play nice people.

[NoteworthyFellow]

Oh, that and I'm an ultrabitch IRL so I just can't play nice people.

I find myself to have the complete opposite problem.  If I'm unkind IRL, it's usually because of a misunderstanding or some form of negligence: I can't stand not being nice to people, ever, no matter who.  This unfortunately bleeds over into the game, making all of my characters total softies.

On the other hand, I have the strange urge, after reading Watchmen, to play a masked avenger with a very black-and-white morality who will train very hard and then show no mercy to anyone he deems to be "evil."  I'm aware that black-and-white morality, and "good and evil," have absolutely no place on Zalanthas, which is exactly why I want to play him.  It should help me get over my fear of being mean.

[number13]

On the other hand, I have the strange urge, after reading Watchmen, to play a masked avenger with a very black-and-white morality who will train very hard and then show no mercy to anyone he deems to be "evil." 

You too, huh?  After the Watchmen movie comes out, we'll have 20 Rorschachs in game.

[NoteworthyFellow]

On the other hand, I have the strange urge, after reading Watchmen, to play a masked avenger with a very black-and-white morality who will train very hard and then show no mercy to anyone he deems to be "evil." 

You too, huh?  After the Watchmen movie comes out, we'll have 20 Rorschachs in game.

Crimebusters time!

[Archbaron]

My current role.

[Fathi]

I find it hard to play well-adjusted, mentally stable characters. I think I find them too boring.

I get enough of being stable and content and easygoing in my real existence.

When I'm playing in a fantasy world where I can be anything I want to be, I guess it's my natural instinct to bring out the manipulative liars, the completely unhinged psychotics, the mutants, the stutterers, the sadists, and the awkward and quirky people who have very interesting methods of eating food in public places.