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RE: (TFT) Playing in character
Good post.
A few years ago, I was brought into a D&D group. I did the fighter thing
for a while- too much like me, or rather the fantasy me. In my TFT days,
I usually enjoyed a wizard of some sort. This time around, I did
something different. I dropped the fighter and created a female
character who was a cleric/bard type. I apparently did a decent job at
it and I liked doing it. I found it a little difficult to be honest but
it certainly made me think about the character more and actually
roleplay something other than myself. It's not easy releasing your
"inner woman". ;-) The character is the one who wrote that magazine,
"The Scroll", that I mentioned in some earlier post and forwarded to
someone. That took a lot out of me!
What I have not done with this group is play non-humans. I am shying
away from it and I can't really say why. When asked, I just said I find
humans complex enough to do just about whatever I want. I really don't
think I could play a dwarf or an elf these days. I just don't have it in
me. It would be a caricature.
Just some thoughts. Probably over analyzing. Probably rather dorky on
top of it.
Aidan
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:04 AM, David Carter wrote:
I just finished shovelling 15cm of snow of the driveway and it is
still coming
down. What are the chances that the God of winter storms has rolled
triple
damage (or 1 on D20 or whatever?) 2 years in a row.
One of the attributes of role playing games that I rarely took
advantage of
was the ability to play a character totally opposite to your own
real-life
character. In reality I avoid confrontations so I was uncomfortable
playing a
Tank in TFT. Example: DM - "You are suddenly attacked by a band of
Orcs. What
do you do?" Me - "Do nothing for 3 turns and then wish I was not
here."
This was Ok with my buds who were more than happy to charge in with
their 2
handed swords/Battle axes and smash everything in sight while I pinged
away
with my little bow annoying the orcs. For some reason, these
mild-mannered,
intelligent university students/computer geeks/bankers were quite
happy to
play minimal intelligence Grunt/type characters. There was no way that
I could
have played a thief cos the idea of secretly taking booty from the
group would
not go down well. So I stuck with Bowmen and Wizards and had a very
good time
doing so.
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