Xigo gave me feedback? AND IT'S HUGE. AND IN DEPTH. AND CRITICAL. HRGGGGN YES I FEEL EXCITE.
Ok, time to break it down.
Quote:You seem to butt heads with the GM team a lot concerning lore, though it has gotten better. Regardless...
I wear my safety helmet now! In all seriousness I've gotten over... whatever it was I was being hardheaded over. IT WAS A MYSTERY.
Quote:Mathieu... bothers me. He bothers me greatly. He's a... what, 21 year old blood elf who's an accomplished enough shadow priest to read minds? You refer to him as a psychic. He also comes off as this great manchild, which I wouldn't mind. I just... feel like he's a caricature sometimes. He doesn't feel like an established character. Just proof that Jami had a child, and that Hrodebert raised an elf. He does not fit anywhere, which I know is your intention, but still, it bugs me. You could help him fit by giving him a fuller personality. Though maybe I haven't seen him around enough to make that call.
He's 26, actually, but I get your point. I sorta-justify it with Mathieu in that that's ALL the shadow magic he uses (crippling over-specialization) and he's been reading, studying and practicing it since he was in he pre-teens, but I can get where you're coming from. On the flip side, I've never actually RPed a mind-melding session with him yet, so... I can make him fail hard at actual application of his talents. Actually, IC I don't think he's ever actually applied his studies to practice, so this could be a direction to take him in.
As for a cariacture... that's in part because of his origins as a character. He's my second oldest still-relevent character ever, after Hrodebert. He's always been Hrod's son, he's always been a huge man-child, and for the most part he's always been psychic too. His personality heavily borrows from my own when I was around 13-18 years old, as well. (So now you have more reasons to be ashamed of me for!)
Anyways, you take all the elements of Matty-boy as an OC and put it on an elf, and yeah I can see where you're coming from, and really this is exactly what I'm aiming to avoiiiiiid. I have been doing more to make him mature up some (drinking games, going out more on his own), but I suppose I have more work to do! I want to keep his happy-go-lucky nature, though. He's meant to be that incorruptible pure person/idiot hippie. I'll work harder >:V
Quote:You seem to invade roleplay at times. I understand everyone wants to roleplay, but they jump into things, and it seems like you play them as heroes. However... I'll get to that.
REQUESTING ELABORATION. Mostly on the INVADE RP part. The hero part I'm more aware of, given I mostly do it on purpose. But I'll get to that later, too!
Quote:See, my major issue is that you play your characters as badass, manly heroes. You describe your characters as this practically. They're all stubborn personality-wise, but that's not what I'm focusing on. You're forcing their badassery, and you're forcing their heroics. It feels like they are these things because you say they are. They don't really lose. Like sure, they might lose a fight, but they're never really seriously bothered. I haven't seen one of your characters really lose. A strong character, to me, loses. And not just a 'blast, I lost, time to do better next time'. But a serious loss which changes the character.
... hm. May I ask which specific characters you're referring to? Because what you say is exactly true... to a degree, depending on how recently you RPed with which character!
Cristovao was originally this, and goood he was shamelessly so. He was intended to be a warrior-poet hero, a real staple golden boy I could take anywhere and do anything with. This would have been fine and dandy if I could've done it right..... but I didn't. Anyway, modern day Cristovao is more of a deconstruction of paladin and hero types. He's emotionally unstable, clingy to the things he swears to protect, and suffers a self imposed sense of moral complications. He loses fights, he loses arguments, hell, he hates himself somewhat because he ended up -agreeing- with a Forsaken over the nature of Lordaeron.
Hrodebert is a bit more typical badass-manly, but he initially started the opposite as a more soft-spoken sort of dwarf. This didn't contrast well with Jami's personality (who was also soft-spoken), and to boot he was initially very afraid of his marriage being found out. Now I can see why people would appreciate this, as the drama is realistic and unique, and to be fair I haven't abandoned it entirely in Hrod's development, but I will say it got to be burdensome and wasn't fun. Now Hrod is more "can't care less" when in neutral areas, but still keeps his marriage secretive when around less savory Alliance types. He's gung-ho and full of adventure now, with his family's interests most at heart. Perhaps this is more shallow, but he's a lot more fun. I really didn't enjoy the endless drama from before.
Madugo is a pacifist and a hippie and anything but a gung ho hero manly guy. Most of his "manly boasts" come from light-hearted jabs at how many kids he has. Fertility machismo and all that.
Aryeon is a bit more shameless and unchanged from his conception. Another old OC converted to WoW, he's remained the neutral-minded, wise and righteous holy-rolling heroic "Gandalf" of sorts. I wish to keep him that way, however, though he'll get more depth whenever me and Immy get to updating Song of the Sun.
Du'guro is manly, but he's the ball-scratching never showering rugged jerkass kind. He's also hateful and spiteful and not heroic in the least.
Hercynian is lazy, unmotivated, and a neglectful father played for laughs. Not much else to say on his accord... though he does have a rugged beard.
Gantrithor, I'll admit, IS the super-manly-fears-nothing-macho-guy. This was intentional, as he's supposed to be a full out headstrong and bold heroic warrior. The guy who throws himself on grenades for you. I could maybe work on making him more down to earth, but I'm unsure where to start.
Mathieu is childish and whiny, but plenty heroic in his own right. I want to develop him in the direction of the hero whose utterly terrified of what he's facing but goes through with it anyway. We'll see with him.
Maeia is in fact a woman, not a man. She's also my quietest, meekest character.
Medrod is cowardly and decietful. He's also my only villain!
Langobard is... vaguely defined so I really don't have much to say on him.
Quote:This likely stems from you not really partaking in scenarios where your character is really in danger. They don't seem to feel fear. Or even fear for themselves. They... come off as fearless. Which is something I don't like in a character, believe it or not. Someone who does not feel fear is not interesting to me. It takes away a lot of suspense, unless this fearlessness is actually used in an interesting way.
I certainly agree. I play my characters's fears to varying lengths and degrees. I'd say only maybe Gantrithor or possibly Aryeon are truly fearless by any stretch of the word (with more emphasis on Gantrithor since he's my gung-hoest of them all). I think he's fun in that regard, some, but I digress.
Quote:Without your characters feeling fear, they can't be brave. Without being brave, they can't be heroes. Maybe you are roleplaying them as being brave, but let it show that they're afraid. Sure, they can try to hide it ICly. But let us know that they're mortals too. Give us a sign that they're pushing through personal stress and fears, instead of just treating everything like one big adventure. Don't have them tell us they're afraid, have them be afraid. Show it through emotes. Maybe a man's hands shiver, or he breaks into a cold sweat. His eyes widen slightly and affix themselves to whatever sight avails him so. His breaths could become heavy, there's a plethora of things you can do. Give it a whirl.
Which brings us to here!
As a matter of fact, I have begun doing these sorts of things! Mostly with Cristovao ('cos I enjoy tormenting him.), but with others too, mostly my less-manly characters (Maeia, Mathieu). You're right, those little details do count up, and I should place my characters in more fearful situations.
THANK YOU FOR THE SPLENDID FEEDBACK SIR XIGO I WISH YOU WELL IN YOUR FEEDBACK TRAVELS.