Post by Morreion on Apr 15, 2011 12:30:45 GMT -5
Storyboard: To flow like water (Massively)
Flexibility isn't something that comes naturally to people. For the most part, we're creatures of habit -- we like what we like, and we don't like someone else telling us what to do. Given the option, most of us would prefer to force the world to change so that it better suited our demands than the other way around. You grow up changing based on everyone else's rules, and the first chance you get to make your own rules, you usually go crazy. It's the same reason that many of our college days are half-remembered through a haze of alcohol and poorly thought-out relationships...
I've talked more than once about boiling a character down to core concepts, and that doesn't stop at creation. The important point in roleplaying should be who your character is and the broad scope of what brought him to this moment. Your character is not you -- and the character and player both will make a better impression if you're someone who doesn't reduce the enjoyment of other players. And you do that by being flexible. Let the chips fall where they may, keep things moving, and don't sweat the small stuff.
Flexibility isn't something that comes naturally to people. For the most part, we're creatures of habit -- we like what we like, and we don't like someone else telling us what to do. Given the option, most of us would prefer to force the world to change so that it better suited our demands than the other way around. You grow up changing based on everyone else's rules, and the first chance you get to make your own rules, you usually go crazy. It's the same reason that many of our college days are half-remembered through a haze of alcohol and poorly thought-out relationships...
I've talked more than once about boiling a character down to core concepts, and that doesn't stop at creation. The important point in roleplaying should be who your character is and the broad scope of what brought him to this moment. Your character is not you -- and the character and player both will make a better impression if you're someone who doesn't reduce the enjoyment of other players. And you do that by being flexible. Let the chips fall where they may, keep things moving, and don't sweat the small stuff.
