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Over here<\/a>, one of the Jason’s poses the question “What is your ‘Thing’.”
\nWhat he means is… well, he gives examples rather than spelling it out, but the sort of thing that you do with characters to sort of make them feel really comfortable to you.
\nAnd it’s weird. I can think of the “thing” for like, everyone I game with. I couldn’t really think of mine.
\nLike… okay:
\nDave tends to gravitate toward support-role characters, generally. Bards. Medics. Fawning, enthusiastic, cat-girl rogues.
\nMargie likes to have the means to figure things out — by that I mean, the means to acquire all the pieces of the puzzle — or even just most of them — she’ll handle putting them togehter herself. \ud83d\ude42
\nJackie characters are totally secure in their convictions, which leads them into trouble when they encounter other views.
\nRandy likes to see the oncoming weather forecasts and get people organized in time to batten down all the hatches. (And he likes to be able to get around quickly.)
\nWith Lee and De… I’m not sure I’ve played enough games with them to see patterns.
\nAnd I puzzled on mine a bit. In fiction, I explore (repeatedly) the cycle of mourning that surrounds traumatic loss, but I don’t really think I do that with my roleplaying characters. Dunno. Maybe Jacob, at least originally.
\nLooking at patterns:
\nI play a lot of face-men types — bards who focus on storytelling; rogues focusing on the con-men aspect coupled with some showy skills; the ‘disguise\/infiltration’ expert in a spy game. Maybe that’s my thing, but that feels more like a delivery system than the virus. Hmm.
\nOkay… taking it further…
\nI had to play a cleric in one game, so I made him the Boss (at least in his own mind) to give me a means to achieve the face-man fix. In the Champs game I played a long time, my horrible-charisma martial artist still became the team leader — his TV interviews were a delightful horrorshow.
\nThere are very very very few characters I’ve played who weren’t geared to be ‘the one who speaks for the group’ — if not the leader, then at least the diplomat. The ones that weren’t that — I generally didn’t enjoy, long-term. (Though they might have been very very fun, short-term.)
\nSo… what’s your type? (And did I guess right on the one’s I guessed?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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