What kind of RPer are you?

I'm just curious how everyone RPs and they're limits and whatnot. Now I know I'm no pro or whatever but I'm pretty bored and this popped into my head hah

Personally, I feel like I'm more of a on the spot kind of RPer. I don't like to plan at all IG or OOG. I love not knowing where I'll go and what I'll do! I find it more fun for the game %99.9 of the time to guide and shape my PC.
I'm cool with anything too, I try to roll with the punches. Chop me up? Make me a madwoman? Can't tell my race? More RP!Haha
I'm pretty hands on so being picked up or hugged or whatever is fine too. (Just nothing below the belt? Haha)

What are your takes on this?

I'm pretty similar for the most part. My base before I start roleplaying is to know as MUCH as humanly possible about my character so when something happens in game on the spot I have a reasonable/realistic reaction (obviously according to how my character reacts, hardly does Ava ever react in a normal manner). If I didn't do that I'd be too afraid to RP "In the Moment" because well, anxiety is a thing. To be honest you can usually tell in a certain situation where I haven't fleshed out Ava's reactions because it'll seem suddenly too quiet or that you surprised her too much. Not that she never gets surprised but you can tell when.

As far as limits go I'm someone who molds around other people's limits. I'm game for anything (obviously within reason) and I think it makes it easier to roleplay out more intense situations. However if I'm roleplaying with someone I know isn't quite as open to things as I am, I will pull back as much as I can without hindering who my character is as a person.

OOG the driving force for my roleplay is continue character development by means of working towards a long Goal my Character has. Generally I have several goals so I can hopefully be working towards something she wants, otherwise why would she be in town? Her FULL TIME goal, however is something that is probably not achievable via IG means (as in she will probably never possess what she wants so dearly) but she still tries to work towards it. This way my character always has a purpose and it helps shapes how she thinks about things.

I also go way into the psychology of my character, it's a downfall of being a psych major, but I won't go into that stuff since it's all FOIG.

In short: I like Organic roleplay that doesn't betray a character's concept.

When I used to play a lot more, I was always an on the fly player, and didn't like to plan much ahead. However, over the last 15 years or so, I've been a GM more often than I've been a player, and its made me a bit more of an "in my head" RPer... when I am not playing, I find myself really trying to think of who my character is and what he would do about certain kinds of situations. Having said that, once I'm playing my character, I try not to actually do anything pre-planned, and just take things as they come. I try and trust myself to do what my character would do or develop and grow as the situation provides. Its harder my first few sessions in a new system where I find myself having to drop character to ask rules or setting issues that I don't know, but I really like just running with things.

I'm also pretty ok with physical stuff - within limits. There are lines I won't cross for RP, no matter what my character would do. This is one of the reasons I enjoy coming into a game with a character married to my real life wife.

Hi there!

Craig here. Resident n00b. You probably haven't met me yet. :lol:

As for me, I always LARP for the immersion. I want to just leave the "normal" world behind and immerse myself in the fantasy world. So I have a tendency to just get to a game and hang out in a corner somewhere, just soaking in all of the awesome roleplaying around me. I'm the kind of guy that is perfectly content to just sit and have an hour long in-game conversation with another player about the finer points of High Elven Wine-making as I am to pick up a boffer sword and smack something with it.

The trouble with this is that I often have a tendency to play my character for realism rather than for storytelling. For example, if a haughty, high-level NPC were to walk into a tavern and demand that I give up my seat at the bar; I'd probably be likely to do so, because I don't want to get my character killed over something so trivial. But the FUN thing to do would be to cough an insult as I was getting up, because that would likely cause a riot and actually move the storyline along. (especially if that would be more in line with my character's personality) I feel that that is something that I need to work on.

I'm pretty okay with the physical stuff as well. I'm always conflicted, because deep down, I am a very touchy-feely person, and love hugs and tickles and kisses and flirting. But I am also aware that I'm a 42 year old purple-haired slightly pudgy married guy, so I'm tend to be extremely self-conscious of coming across as a big icky Creepy McCreeperson. :lol: So although it's perfectly fine for others* to hug or touch me in just about any way they like, I would never initiate it. :blush:

The only other thing that I need to improve on is my tendency of asking OOG questions while the game is going on. I have a bad habit of throwing my hand over my head and asking about something that confuses me, when I should probably just let it go and ask later, or try to Find Out In Game.

--- Craig

*and by "others", I mean guys as well as gals. I am pretty secure in my sexuality.

I think I am the type that builds a character and thinks about it for quite awhile before I start. I have his/her fears, quirks, sense of humor and philosophy all played out in my head. I have every feature of the character designed so when I am ready to play, I can dive in with that character's mindset. I do not set everything in stone and allow my characters to be flexible and change with each experience, failure and lesson that character has learned.

I don't have a particular character set that I play. I have played a very wide gambit of character, each with his/her own philosophy, some good and some bad, but none really resemble me. I have no interest in playing myself in a game environment. I always want to be something or someone different. I like playing goody goodies, morally bankrupt, scammers, priests, inventors, warriors, thieves, disguise artists, spies, knights, sociopaths and the exceptionally bland. When I am making a character I have the backstory filled out and I love creating people within worlds.

I do what my character would do regardless of the consequences, so if my character would touch something or put on an ancient powerful ring of questionable origins, I know would OOC would get me killed or creamed, I will do it. While I am attached to my characters, there is no point meta-gaming away everything that makes them interesting. I am also the type of player that doesn't do something because I, the player, would think it was fun, if my character wouldn't do it. I am definitely the type of player that is slave to the character.

Took a quiz online that had a similar title, it came back as "There is no player, only ZOUL!!!". When I'm IC, I'm pretty much the character I'm playing and don't think much about what "Whitt" would do. To the point one of my good friends from another game got into the habit of poking me and saying "Whit! Whitt! Whitt!" when he wanted to have a conversation with me instead of one of many ridiculous characters I might be playing.

I've played a thoroughly socio-pathic serial killer, a Judge Dredd like warrior, bumbling drunks, comic-relief "Merchants", haughty super-powered critters, and pathetic kobolds. The fun for me is getting into whichever role I'm playing and going. Whatever happens after that to the character, well, it happens and we either write the character off as lost forever (sociopath, it turns out, is not a high life expectancy occupation) or we bounce of the hits we take and go in cool new directions.

The biggest problem I've run into with enjoying this play style is most other folks are really nice people, so they don't want to visit the repercusions of making choices on other player's characters. If I were playing a Dark Elf, I would want folks to respond to me as they would an NPC Dark Elf, not immediately make provisions for "this one must be different". For me the greatest joy is when other players can't tell my PC from my NPC roles. That tells me I'm doing it right. The only thing that should be different, really, is that you'll see my PC a few more times a month.

Oh and the other problem is kind of funny... folks from the SCA will understand... people who don't know better can't disassociate your PC from you. I enjoy the OOC events and NPC down time totally for this point of getting to be me instead of, say, a grouchy, grumpy, filthy Dwarf...

As for hands on / hands off... I grew up playing football/lacrosse and with three older brothers. Playtime has always been more WWE than not. I once blew my ankle out running down a hill (woodchuck holes suck) made it to the bad guy, cut him down and then nearly passed out from the pain. Found out after the weekend that I had a mostly torn ligament in my ankle. Of course, that didn't matter during the event - that's why boots lace up tighter right? :oops: