Hard To Roleplay

[NoteworthyFellow]

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.

I think my problem is that I take my characters too seriously.

My next character will be straight-up bananas.

[Mood]

and the awkward and quirky people who have very interesting methods of eating food in public places.

[manonfire]

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

Bullshit.

You're a big softie.

[Fathi]

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

Bullshit.

You're a big softie.

Was it my love of kittens and snuggles or my utter facetiousness that tipped you off?

[Synthesis]

I find it hard to play characters who speak with proper enunciation and excellent diction.  Most of the time I can't even bring myself to have my characters -think- in proper English.

[Me]

I took a long break from Arm (about three years ago) for about 2 years, after that - I came back and decided to play a character with a persona that I've never played before. That is, a complete airhead that has a tendency to trust any strangers that would dangle a candy before her face.

First time she went IG, a character asked her during tavern sitting a commonly asked question when any PC walks into a bar, "What news?". So instead of replying some major drastic news such as Lord Templar Snooty Pants of the Blue shat out a block of gold etc, she went on to blabber about her neighbor having just delivered kids and so forth. And was squealing in girly excitement how fantastic being so fertile was.

Naturally, oocly, I was struggling extremely hard to rp out her personality - because although I knew oocly of the snippy remarks other people said about her, I had to stop myself from responding just as mean and had to step back many a times to go...ok..if I'm a bimbo..what would I think this comment as.

Anyway, I think rping dumb is a great challenge for me.

[AssKickery]

I really have problems playing male characters. I think in a way that's very macho I guess (for a girl), but have a really hard time playing a macho dude. Every time I play a male I want to dress him up in skirts, make him paint his fingernails and talk with a lisp. Ugh, it's irritating.

[FantasyWriter]

I really have problems playing male characters. I think in a way that's very macho I guess (for a girl), but have a really hard time playing a macho dude. Every time I play a male I want to dress him up in skirts, make him paint his fingernails and talk with a lisp. Ugh, it's irritating.

ROFL.
Love the avatar, btw.

[Yam]

I really have problems playing male characters. I think in a way that's very macho I guess (for a girl), but have a really hard time playing a macho dude. Every time I play a male I want to dress him up in skirts, make him paint his fingernails and talk with a lisp. Ugh, it's irritating.

I feel the same way and I'm fairly manly in real life.

[Is Friday]

I have difficulty roleplaying a character for longer than 4 RL weeks. I'm working on it. 

[Yam]

My last four or five characters have all be under 3 days played.

[Medena]

I find it hard to play the coldly calculating and controlled type.   My characters tend to be a bit on the impulsive and demonstrative side.

[Clearsighted]

Heh. Generally playing a patient character is difficult if RL you're very impatient.

[Is Friday]

It is hard for me to roleplay a non-rebellious character.

[AmandaGreathouse]

I find it hard to play characters that aren't pushovers. Sure, they -think- of killing everyone around them and hate and resent everyone, but they are usually the quiet ones that are first to back down, and, well, oddly enough, they usually live even through the -worst- of circumstances. I also find it hard to play any ranger that doesn't wind up lost in the tablelands for some reason or other and die there, if they live long enough to make it there. I find it hard to play any race, really, other than humans or half-elves. The setting is enough difference for me, when playing a completely alien mindset I find myself constantly thinking about what the character would do, rather than the reactions slowly building to a point where I almost instinctually know what they would do. I mean, a magicker is one thing, but I don't think I could -ever- fully feel comfortable playing a mul or a half-giant. I've barely played an elf, and I haven't touched dwarves. I really like racial RP, and I love playing -around- the different races, but I can't get into the mindset, myself.

[FantasyWriter]

One of the reasons I don't like playing elves, is because once I start thinking of them as "people", it makes it harder to RP the racial strife and resentment when I play a human or dwarf.

[brytta.leofa]

One of the reasons I don't like playing elves, is because once I start thinking of them as "people", it makes it harder to RP the racial strife and resentment when I play a human or dwarf.

Doesn't the reverse also hold true?

[FantasyWriter]

One of the reasons I don't like playing elves, is because once I start thinking of them as "people", it makes it harder to RP the racial strife and resentment when I play a human or dwarf.

Doesn't the reverse also hold true?

No because I was always thinking.  They hate me because I am an elf, so I can't trust them either.

[Vessol]

Gung-ho stereotypical macho types.
Infact I hate roleplaying any stereotype. I always make sure to have multiple layers on each character if I can help it.
My characters are like onions.

Chuckling onions, that is.

[Manhattan]

I cannot play half-elves. I've never figured out how to properly. Read their race info, and don't tell me that's not stressful and confusing.
God knows how many times I'veTRIED. GAH!! 

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

I really have problems playing male characters. I think in a way that's very macho I guess (for a girl), but have a really hard time playing a macho dude. Every time I play a male I want to dress him up in skirts, make him paint his fingernails and talk with a lisp. Ugh, it's irritating.

Fale is your friend.

[number13]

I cannot play half-elves. I've never figured out how to properly. Read their race info, and don't tell me that's not stressful and confusing.

My take:
= Make sure there's something vile about your character (beyond being a breed). This makes it easier for others to hate the character properly.

= Try to make friends with *everyone*, esp. the people who are hating on you for being a half-elf. (seen lots of h-e get miffed when someone is hating on them. I don't know if that's the reaction a h-elf should have, unless the hate had turned to violence.)

= Whoever you are hanging out with now is much cooler than whoever you were hanging out with five minutes ago. If you've seemed to have earned the utmost respect of a particular person, there's something wrong with that person. They might not be cool enough anymore, because they are hanging out with a half-elf. (exceptions perhaps exist, for relationships built over years)

= Don't take charity. Half-elves do for themselves.  A half-elf beggar should be as rare as a smart half-giant. (you can still con people. that's not a gift -- that's a result of your labor)

= Swap moods. Sometimes you are extroverted to the extreme, sometimes you are introverted to the extreme.  These moods have very little to do with external influences.

[Iota]

I've got trouble roleplaying any sort of criminal. Not because I can't understand or get into the mindset, but because I'm kind of a nervous person IRL and the tension in the game when you're hiding from the authorities or risking life and limb for a job is too intense for me.

[Manhattan]

I cannot play half-elves. I've never figured out how to properly. Read their race info, and don't tell me that's not stressful and confusing.

My take:
= Make sure there's something vile about your character (beyond being a breed). This makes it easier for others to hate the character properly.

= Try to make friends with *everyone*, esp. the people who are hating on you for being a half-elf. (seen lots of h-e get miffed when someone is hating on them. I don't know if that's the reaction a h-elf should have, unless the hate had turned to violence.)

= Whoever you are hanging out with now is much cooler than whoever you were hanging out with five minutes ago. If you've seemed to have earned the utmost respect of a particular person, there's something wrong with that person. They might not be cool enough anymore, because they are hanging out with a half-elf. (exceptions perhaps exist, for relationships built over years)

= Don't take charity. Half-elves do for themselves.  A half-elf beggar should be as rare as a smart half-giant. (you can still con people. that's not a gift -- that's a result of your labor)

= Swap moods. Sometimes you are extroverted to the extreme, sometimes you are introverted to the extreme.  These moods have very little to do with external influences.

Yeah, I don't get it.  Does this condition exist in real life?

[NoteworthyFellow]

I cannot play half-elves. I've never figured out how to properly. Read their race info, and don't tell me that's not stressful and confusing.

My take:
= Make sure there's something vile about your character (beyond being a breed). This makes it easier for others to hate the character properly.

= Try to make friends with *everyone*, esp. the people who are hating on you for being a half-elf. (seen lots of h-e get miffed when someone is hating on them. I don't know if that's the reaction a h-elf should have, unless the hate had turned to violence.)

= Whoever you are hanging out with now is much cooler than whoever you were hanging out with five minutes ago. If you've seemed to have earned the utmost respect of a particular person, there's something wrong with that person. They might not be cool enough anymore, because they are hanging out with a half-elf. (exceptions perhaps exist, for relationships built over years)

= Don't take charity. Half-elves do for themselves.  A half-elf beggar should be as rare as a smart half-giant. (you can still con people. that's not a gift -- that's a result of your labor)

= Swap moods. Sometimes you are extroverted to the extreme, sometimes you are introverted to the extreme.  These moods have very little to do with external influences.

Yeah, I don't get it.  Does this condition exist in real life?

Bipolar disorder.

One could equate the half-elf's desire for acceptance and the sometimes great lengths to which they'll go to make friends to the manic state of bipolar disorder, while the other times, when they inexplicably want to be alone and independent and feel like nobody understands them, are similar to the depressive state.  It's not a perfect comparison, but the unpredictability of both overall states means it's a similar concept, I think.

(Now I just have to sit back and wait for someone who knows more about this than I do to slap my face.)