[Brother None]

Originally Posted by galraen

Whilst Morel represents my own persona in many ways, role-playing him is very easy, I just act naturally so to speak. The real challenge when role-playing is when the character you're playing is completely different from you. That's an aspect of role-playing that Jeff Green completely misses, and it's his loss IMO.

A part of the whole immersion-nonsense? You are your character-isms.

In pen and paper and cRPGs, I always try to create a "Vasilii". Vasilii started as a "schelme" in DSA, schelme being a type of half-insane magic types, normal humans raised by kobolds (kobolds being natural magic creature). Vasilii's unpredictable "chaotic neutral" attitude doesn't really fit my personality all that much.

But I always mix. Hell, in good RPGs, the variety of characters and the way the game reacts to them is a definite plus. I've played Arcanum as a gnome specialized in throwing weapons and illusion magic with his own morality, who would only wear a nice suit and top hat (indeed, Vasilii), a dumb half-ogre warrior of the good kind, a dwarf technophile who was more pragmatic, an evil pure sorceress type, etc. etc.