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<blockquote data-quote="redrick" data-source="post: 7314586" data-attributes="member: 6777696">I find this happens to me when I lose interest or focus in the goals and personality of my character. I went through a while where I felt like my character's personality and motivations changed week to week. If we didn't play for a month, I would forget who my character was and what they were doing, beyond just &quot;the quest.&quot;At the start of last year, as a bit of a new year's resolution, I decided to spend a little time &quot;prepping&quot; my character between every session, just like I would spend a little time prepping my adventure every week.I now tape my character sheet onto the first two pages of a composition book. (I have to reduce the size by about 10-15% to get it to fit.) I googled some advice for role-playing player characters better. (We have so much advice on being a better DM and so much advice on building a better sor-lock, but not so much advice on role-playing a better character.) I found some lists of &quot;questions to ask your player character&quot;, and I answered some of these and taped those inside my composition book.I make an entry in the book for every game session, where I could take notes — sometimes story stuff, sometimes just a list of loot, sometimes sketching out a map of a dungeon. If the DM sends a session summary, I print that out and tape that in there as well. Once, before the next session, I try to open the book and ask myself, &quot;How does my character feel about the other PCs in the party? How do they feel about the major NPCs currently in the mix? How do they feel about their current quest/goals and why are they invested in them? Has anything changed for how my character views the world?&quot; At the very least, I make sure to review the book on my train ride to the session. (Living in NYC, a significant portion of my D&amp;D prep happens on the subway.)Also, I scan and print out the relevant pages from the PHB for my character class and race and tape those in the very back of the book. That way, I can leave my player's handbook at home. D&amp;D night as a player is just grabbing &quot;my character&quot; (the composition book) and my dice bag and throwing those in my shoulder bag on the way to work.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="redrick, post: 7314586, member: 6777696"] I find this happens to me when I lose interest or focus in the goals and personality of my character. I went through a while where I felt like my character's personality and motivations changed week to week. If we didn't play for a month, I would forget who my character was and what they were doing, beyond just "the quest." At the start of last year, as a bit of a new year's resolution, I decided to spend a little time "prepping" my character between every session, just like I would spend a little time prepping my adventure every week. I now tape my character sheet onto the first two pages of a composition book. (I have to reduce the size by about 10-15% to get it to fit.) I googled some advice for [I]role-playing[/I] player characters better. (We have so much advice on being a better DM and so much advice on building a better sor-lock, but not so much advice on role-playing a better character.) I found some lists of "questions to ask your player character", and I answered some of these and taped those inside my composition book. I make an entry in the book for every game session, where I could take notes — sometimes story stuff, sometimes just a list of loot, sometimes sketching out a map of a dungeon. If the DM sends a session summary, I print that out and tape that in there as well. Once, before the next session, I try to open the book and ask myself, "How does my character feel about the other PCs in the party? How do they feel about the major NPCs currently in the mix? How do they feel about their current quest/goals and why are they invested in them? Has anything changed for how my character views the world?" At the very least, I make sure to review the book on my train ride to the session. (Living in NYC, a significant portion of my D&D prep happens on the subway.) Also, I scan and print out the relevant pages from the PHB for my character class and race and tape those in the very back of the book. That way, I can leave my player's handbook at home. D&D night as a player is just grabbing "my character" (the composition book) and my dice bag and throwing those in my shoulder bag on the way to work. [/QUOTE]

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