Is your character ever YOU?

[Danny Ocean]

I understand the attraction of being anything you want to be when roleplaying, but can the act become hard to keep up the whole time?
My character (Yin) is pretty much just me, so I find him increadibly easy to play as. Do you take that path or do you find a middle ground and root your character in your own personality, without limiting ability or skills?

Discuss.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Something I often do is take my life up to a specific point and then take a "What if?" route. Makes for some interesting playing.

You do have to be careful of Mary-Sue'ing.

 

[Reasonable Doubt]

Me I make them have my personality which is so much easier than having them like me which would be incredibly boring.

 

[Danny Ocean]

Mary-Sue'ing?

 

[huntedannoyed]

My character is a Teleporting, Ax wielding fire breather. So, yea, I guess he's me to the T.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Mary-Sue'ing?

Trust the Wiki [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sue]

 

[fix-the-spade]

Mary-Sue: Generic or cliche'd character showing either traits common to all characters off that type or demonstrating perfection in every possible way.
Boring predictabe types that are usually written in so that they can't possibly lose a situation, or described as like X but...


#Gaahhh, evil beat me to it. Never try to beat a swarm in a suit.

 

[Blayze]

Generally when I'm trying to learn a game for the first time, I tend to just plonk myself in. I can't exactly Gary Stu myself when the character's thoughts, words and actions are mine - and I'm therefore exactly as flawed as he is.

 

[Kovash86]

I like to think I'm pretty good at acting in character, although I tend to make the character fight a little dirtier than they normally would given their initial concept. I have played myself before though and the experience was somewhat ruined because of who was running it, and who was in the game with me at the time.

 

[Higurashi]

My character, Higurashi, is pretty much me, yeah. His personality and back story are based on mine, and it's only in later times he's started to manipulate earth. Before that, he was strictly a martial artist, just like me, only he's owned by the devil. He is a demon, but with his original appearance, he even looks a bit like me.
For certain, it is easier to engage in a character one identifies oneself with, and also it's easier to be creative.

 

[Larenxis]

Not really. The constant so far has been all my characters are generally nice, although I tried to bend that a bit with Alexis. Laura and I had a bit in common: we both like pears, music, and archery.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

My character is never based off of me. Hell, my current characters don't even have to same gender. I mostly do that because I find it more fun to make up a character and roleplay as the character, rather than myself.

 

[bodyklok]

Wouldn't this be better as a pole

 

[figment of mind]

My character (figment) is partly based off of me and partly based off of any idiotic hero you can think of. i intended her to be funny but i don't know if it's working but i can say she's powerful.

 

[zen5887]

I've played a few characters in DnD where they are kiinda like me.. Just a lot more exaggerated. I think this comes down to my lack of acting range =P

 

[Kovash86]

Have you ever built a character (psychologically speaking) who was such a true and total badass that even when you duplicate his build to the letter you can't beat him because he is just that mean?

I ask because I made this archer once, he was a fairly nice guy all things considered, until he got in a fight then he was just evil, suffice to say one day a game came along and I duplicated this characters build since it was good, so I was bored one day and we were flexing our proverbial muscles over whose character was the baddest and I ended up testing my new character against the old one, and he whipped the new guys ass so bad it wasn't funny. On paper they were the exact same but in the game they were on two completely different levels. I would think of things while role-playing him that I wouldn't or couldn't think of when role-playing any other character, it's kind of like he had a life of his own, creepy really.

 

[Khedive Rex]

My charactors are never me. Where would be the fun in that? I already get to be me 24 hours a day every day (except wednesdays ...)

It might be easier to play a charactor whose just you with shinier muscles (I wouldn't know, I've never done it) but it wouldn't be nearly as entertaining. I like to be surprised by what my charactors do (that is, what I have them do, if I don't want to sound like a schizophrenic maniac) and I could never get that if I was just playing me.

 

[Rune342]

When roleplaying my character acts like me. Sure, they can do things that I can't but they do what I would do with those abilities.

 

[NinjaSkills]

Yeah I base my character, Shiva's personality on me

 

[revolverwolf]

I use me, but exaggerate in some places...Where would be the fun in me being me when everyone else is a gun/sword-wielding pyscopath?