I've heard such good things about The Hunger Games, so of course I need to let the hype die down to a dull murmur before I'll even touch them.
One thing that seems to be a common... I don't want to call it a flaw, but a common trap, I guess, with first-time RPers is to put too much of ourselves into our characters. We play them because we love them. Not that we're in love with them, but we're not going to play characters unless we're attracted to them, see parts of ourselves in them. It's really easy to overdo it and infuse them with too much of us and minimize the parts of them with which we don't resonate, if that makes sense. I know I've been guilty of that plenty of times.
Or maybe I'm just blowing hot air. We do what we do and RP the way we RP.
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Date: 2010-08-01 05:53 pm (UTC)One thing that seems to be a common... I don't want to call it a flaw, but a common trap, I guess, with first-time RPers is to put too much of ourselves into our characters. We play them because we love them. Not that we're in love with them, but we're not going to play characters unless we're attracted to them, see parts of ourselves in them. It's really easy to overdo it and infuse them with too much of us and minimize the parts of them with which we don't resonate, if that makes sense. I know I've been guilty of that plenty of times.
Or maybe I'm just blowing hot air. We do what we do and RP the way we RP.