RP-Critique/Support/Self Monitoring Club

[gimchi]

I think it is perfectly viable to be cautious.

As you said WIS 10 is average and represents a "normal" person.
Your average person does not challenge a gang banger, attempt to tightrope walk between tall buildings, or play with high explosives.

An average person can possibly be tricked by a con man, may not recognize the true danger of more subtle situations, and will maybe argue with their wife when they should just say "Yes dear."

Hope that helps.

[mrieder79]

I think it is perfectly viable to be cautious.

As you said WIS 10 is average and represents a "normal" person.
Your average person does not challenge a gang banger, attempt to tightrope walk between tall buildings, or play with high explosives.

An average person can possibly be tricked by a con man, may not recognize the true danger of more subtle situations, and will maybe argue with their wife when they should just say "Yes dear."

Hope that helps.

LoL. Yes very helpful. Thanks.

[longrath]

Hey all.
I'm playing Carrister.
It's my first time back in NWN for a couple of years.
A couple of things I wanted to check.
Am I trying to push his story out too hard?
And I've seen typing too fast as a concern here.
He's pretty low level and I've only had a couple of decent RP nights so far.

Playing mostly evenings EST near the arms inn.

[Atlas]

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[Kaelaen]

I don't know what you mean by typing too fast being a concern. In my opinion it's a gift to have on something like this where you can't really depend on your character animation to correctly convey what your PC is really doing, and so being able to describe quickly IMO is a positive thing.

Or did you mean you keep typing and typing your characters actions and talkings, giving people very little time to respond themselves? Yes, it goes to say that is rather inconsiderate. If you do something that in your head, someone would immediately respond to but the other player needs time to think up and then type a response, give them the time to compose their message.

Then again, it doesn't much matter to me if they keep talking and refuse to let your character get a word in. People are like that IRL too, so I just assume it's a form of roleplay . No reason rudeness can't be RPed

[Maverick 40]

Event etiquette should be refined.....

I have noticed that large groups tend to breakdown into unruly masses. DM's would do well to lay down the rules first. This player is in charge, this is what I expect from you, and do not jump out unless called upon, etc......

I have been in one event with DM Nilbog, and he is awesome at this! That event took awhile, but was the most orderly and fun I have ever been a part of

[mrieder79]

Hey all.
I'm playing Carrister.
It's my first time back in NWN for a couple of years.
A couple of things I wanted to check.
Am I trying to push his story out too hard?
And I've seen typing too fast as a concern here.
He's pretty low level and I've only had a couple of decent RP nights so far.

Playing mostly evenings EST near the arms inn.

I've only been on the server for maybe 2 weeks and have had multiple positive RP experiences. Perhaps you have simply been unlucky. My advice would be to stick with it. I like RP, so you can catch up to me anytime you are on. Name's in the sig.

[longrath]

Please don't mistake my comment as describing a lack of quality RP experiences.

I've only been on the server for days, total time.

I had intended that to read:
Only been on a couple of times, have already had a couple of good RP experiences.

[Hoihe]

Now... How i RP Hoihe's low wisdom.


He has high charisma, and such rather confident in his ability, maybe over what is real. A bit proud, especially about his heritage
He has high Sense motive, and such can perceive, asses and plain accordingly to danger.
He has high intelligence, and with the knowledge he just learned, make a fitting plan.
He has low wisdom, and such often he underestimates danger (according to that list broham or someone posted in the rolls thread, it'd be 2 sections lower than reality, when assesing a player's power, he'd always think he can defeat the assesse.)

Opinions?

In a few words, Recognise, plan, but don't care.

[Stonebar]

A Wisdom of 10 and 11 is normal for a human, and likely the score many of us have in real life. So you'd be no more or less gullible then an average person. Adventures do stand out from the crowd with high stats, but just because adventures are extraordinary does not lessen the capability of the common man, If it did adventures would not be extraordinary.

At least to me a high attribute makes one naturally inclined to do related tasks well, but not an expert. A high Dex character without ranks in Tumble is not more skilled then someone with an average Dex with a lot of ranks in tumble, the average Dex just had to bust his but training just to be as good as an amateur with a high Dex. A high Wisdom does not make one Yoda lol. Just like having a high IQ (Int) does not automatically make one smart. A low Cha with ranks in diplomacy has learned through experience what a character with high Cha. had from birth. Like i'd think Hoihe's Sence motive ranks gives him his insight to detect BS do to his life experience.

Attributes can also be represented in many ways. Someone might RP their high Cha. being represented as being a great General who can rally his troops and they would fight to the death for him, but he is greatly lacking when it comes to social situations. The Jack of Stargate style, vs. Shepherd of Atlantics.

Other factors should come in to play as well I feel. I’d think a high Will save also shows the experience of life. For example I feel one could make a Will save in place of Sense motive to avoid being bluffed in some cases. That Will save though would not give the deeper insight in to the deception, or the confidence in your assessment of the situation that the skill might of course, only just the experience to feel something’s not quite right.

These are just my feelings, I know many others have differing opinions. I’d love to hear others thoughts on it.

[Mastermind]

Hi, player of Sycilia Do'Qixzan here.

I haven't played a drow on this server before and I'm pretty unfamiliar with The Underdark in general.. So... I'd welcome any feedback from the people with whom I've had the pleasure of interacting!

Point out my mistakes and I would really like to hear what you think about her as a character.

[Bulldog241]

The best way I've found to think of the ability score/skill score is this:

Ability scores represent natural ability.

Skill scores represent ACTUAL ability.

[coydeleon]

Coy here, I play Calenglir Nerelven. I'm the dude asking dumb questions whether here in the forums or in lobby chat.

I'm all for improving my RPing as I know it's a great exercise in imagination and is hells of fun. Most of my experience is pretty positive, and I'm hoping that I'm providing something to the post of good RP whenever I do. If not, I am more than happy to hear why and how I can improve upon that. I see that this is the purpose of thread, and I wish to subject myself to the scrutiny of my peers.

You can skip this part now unless you want to read someone talk about their experience in RPing.

Coming from a NWN1 years ago playing in a hardcore and mature server (wasn't much restriction on language, nudity and um... companionship of the virtual kind, but crazy rigid restrictions on muling and meta stuff), I'd like to apologize in advance if my language skirts the age appropriateness of this server. Secondly, I type fast (hack writer by trade, can't be helped) so I always design my characters to be talkative types, so forgive me if I seem to be drowning you with words. Lastly, I suck at remembering names, so again, allow me to apologize in advance if I mistake IC knowing/not knowing your character.

That being said, I WILL try to improve upon those deficiencies that I am aware of and hope that we can all grow in this process. Thank you.

[Nomster]

Oh, one thing I thought of. Its difficult to RP a character who is cunning and should have better memory than a goldfish when you as a player don't

I tend to send a person a tell if I think my character has met them before. And names, darn all those with similar names..! So far I keep post its by the laptop but they are slowly taking over the desk burying it...

My RP experiences,
People I've met who are into table top RPG have started young. I was about 17 when I joined my group, and I was the youngest and often the only female. The guys had played most things out there and had a taste for what they liked and didn't. They were more into trying new things all the time and also making their own games. Two have released their own, which I've had the 'honour' of playtesting. I never learned any system this way. And also never got to play a character more than once or twice. Record must be 5 sessions. Only played D&D twice and it looked more like a strategy game with that board than RP to me. All that number crunching and the fights which took aaaages left little room to RP in my opinion.
Player "What does this spell do?"
Everyone scratches their heads at the description and someone makes a suggestion everyone nods to.
Halfway through someone "um guys, I don't think that's what this spell is about. Seems to me it should be blablabla"
DM looks and swears, "We could discuss this all evening or we continue to play. Let's just say this spell does X damage for the bloody sake of it."
At the end the DM goes.. "and this is why we don't play D&D. Can you stop pestering me about it now?!"

What I liked about the group was that they RPed with common sense. If we were in farming village, and someone needed a ladder, if it seems logical that a ladder should be there, we would find it. For more odd things, if it seems reasonable but rare, we'd roll. If it wasn't quite successful roll, the DM would often implement it as it being broken or under heavy lock/guard. So, area descriptions were never limited to what it said on the paper. The DM rather preferred to give a short description and have us players fill in the rest "I do enough work as it is" . I'm a bit nostalgic I suppose. I've moved countries and even before that, someone else moved abroad, people got kids and were focused on work. And girlfriends. Don't even get me started on them. One of the older guys about 40, had a partner who also played which was great. Other than that I only met other females when it was flower picking RP. Seems like females tend to be very biased against table top RP.

I think I'm waffling quite a lot so feel free to split. What I was thinking about was that people shouldn't be so restricted by what is described/what they can see IG and props. If its reasonable it should be there, it is, so RP and use it If you insist there must be a real IG item, do use the naming tool.

[Celduil]

Oh, one thing I thought of. Its difficult to RP a character who is cunning and should have better memory than a goldfish when you as a player don't

I tend to send a person a tell if I think my character has met them before. And names, darn all those with similar names..! So far I keep post its by the laptop but they are slowly taking over the desk burying it...

A good idea is to write people as you meet them in your Journal. I know many people who do this, including myself.