Broken characters
Gloria Santos
Timothy Collett
> My character hates me for making her so miserable. :-(
Heh, my characters don't know I exist...but Alanna would probably get
pretty peeved at me if she did ;-)
If she's miserable, find someone for her to take that misery out on
(besides you). That's always fun RP.
Timothy Collett
Anaris Family
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"The only thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart."
~ Miles Naismith Vorkosigan
Marc J.
Heh, my characters don't know I exist...
That would be one *weird* religion if they did! :P
If she's miserable, find someone for her to take that misery out on
(besides you). That's always fun RP.
Or you could have her find someone equally miserable... misery loves company, and all that. ;)
Marc J.
Gloria Santos
but... but...
she loves Fuinur.
(and the other miserable one already sleeps with Sleanra... you can't get more miserable than that.)
Marc J.
but... but...
she loves Fuinur.
Ah, that one!
Well... perhaps you could turn her into a woman scorned! She did, after all, leave that realm...
Gloria Santos
No one in Light of Fountain roleplays at all. They are all strategy players. :'(
I cannot turn her into anything if the other players don't help.
Marc J.
No one in Light of Fountain roleplays at all. They are all strategy players. :'(
I cannot turn her into anything if the other players don't help.
Ah, I think you're jumping the gun! They roleplay... sometimes.
Tell you what, start a roleplay and see what happens. True, not everyone will join in, but at lest you can say that you tried.
Marc J.
The Nosferatus Family
There temple rps are so lame...
Gloria Santos
LoF sucks big ass ^^
There temple rps are so lame...
hear hear.
Marc J.
LoF sucks big ass ^^
There temple rps are so lame...
Give them a few more months to find their groove... remember, they came from Fontan where calling Oligarchians, Orcs is considered "intense RPing"!
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Marc J.
Gloria Santos
It's people who left Fontan because Fontan sucked... so I don't want to imagine how lame Fontan was.
I mean, I left Rancagua because they had absolutely no RP nor any strategy nor any living players at all. :P
The Nosferatus Family
I hope they take there chance...
LilWolf
Gloria Santos wrote:
> (and the other miserable one already sleeps with Sleanra... you can't get more
> miserable than that.)
Hey, that hurt! :(
Gloria Santos
LilWolf
adding to the misery of your character.
Really, if you, as a player, don't find it enjoyable to RP what your
character is doing, then don't do it. Find a way out and do something
you really want with the character.
I'm already feeling a bit like I forced you and Elaine into the whole
situation and now you're sort of saying you didn't want that and want
out. I don't want a RP I started to result in less fun for those
involved and I certainly don't want the result to be something that
would make you not want to login and see what has happened with your
character.
Eavan Trader
> Really, if you, as a player, don't find it enjoyable to RP what your
> character is doing, then don't do it. Find a way out and do something
> you really want with the character.
I don't presume to speak for Gloria, but it is perfectly possible for
one's characters to be miserable while one is not miserable oneself. I
call this the fine art of character-torture. It can be a LOT of fun!
Gloria Santos
Believe me, LilWolf knows how to torture his own character. I think I care more about Sleanra than he does. Well, at least Elaine has done something good for her...
Marc J.
I call this the fine art of character-torture. It can be a LOT of fun!
Heh, isn't this the whole point of having a Hero? Torture them by making them fight battle after battle with the only point being so they can die and free up a character slot...
;)
Marc J.
Timothy Collett
Oh, my Hero has been one for two years now...I expected her to die in
the siege of Ikalak City on the SWI...only then there was no siege,
and she joined Taselak, instead, at her own Judge's request...
But the Fine Art of Character-Torture is something slightly
different. It has at its center the following question:
"What's the *worst possible* thing I can do to this character, and
still maintain the overall story integrity?"
I know for certain that one author uses this as a central way of
developing her plots (see sig), and I strongly suspect that a few
others, both in print and TV, do as well. Some of them even manage
to find plausible ways to actually kill off the character (the *main*
character) and still maintain the overall story integrity...(you just
need a way to bring him or her back).
If you can divorce your own psyche from your character's enough that
it doesn't make *you* as miserable as you make *her* (or him), it can
be a remarkably effective way to drive RP.
Marc J.
But the Fine Art of Character-Torture is something slightly
different. It has at its center the following question:
"What's the *worst possible* thing I can do to this character, and
still maintain the overall story integrity?"
This is an interesting idea... although, I have to say that it could get depressing to play a character that is either failing all the time or is having all the people he cares about be killed around them...eh, but what do I know? I have a chair loving manic as a character! (Bet ya can't figure out where I got that idea, can ya Tim! :P )
Some of them even manage to find plausible ways to actually kill off the character (the *main* character) and still maintain the overall story integrity...(you just
need a way to bring him or her back).
I've done that before... but not for the "good" reasons you wrote - I brought one of my characters back because I couldn't come up with a good name for a new character! Although... I think I've found a way to RP it as "adding to the story"... an executed infil makes a nice sophisticated aristocrat, in a weird sort of way.
If you can divorce your own psyche from your character's enough that
it doesn't make *you* as miserable as you make *her* (or him), it can
be a remarkably effective way to drive RP.
I don't know if that's possible - at least completely, but it does give me an idea:
How many of you identify with your characters at all? How many of you made characters that are your polar opposite?
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Marc J.
Gloria Santos
Eavan Trader
>> be a remarkably effective way to drive RP.
>I don't know if that's possible - at least completely
I find that most of the time, I can be fine, but when I get into the
character (writing about him, say, or reading something the person I
write with wrote about her), it sometimes leads to problems. For
example, when one of my characters gets *really* stressed, he has a
tendency of driving his fingernails through his palms. But it's my
hands that end up hurting. :-(
...and we're not going to get into the issue about me talking to
(/yelling at) my characters...