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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 2523451" data-attributes="member: 18280">Pick up Dynasties & Demagogues, and convince your DM to allow you to take a personality feat from that book.  The personality feats allow you to gain an action point for meeting certain personality goals....and these goals are not "kill the monsters & take their stuff."IMC, I am planning on giving these away as free feats.  Everyone gets one, and good luck with it.  ****For NPCs (and even PCs), I often use a "defining trait" or "defining interest" -- what the old FASA games called a "recognition handle".  People do not always choose spells, for example, on the basis of combat effectiveness.  A wizard who is a birder might have spells designed to allow him to see birds up close (perhaps even become a bird) or emulate bird traits.  Likewise, a barbarian with a lion totem might consider the adventuring party to be her "pride".  She might have quite a few stealth skills, and treat combat as a "stalk and strike" activity by preference.Don't be afraid to reduce the overall effectiveness of a character by building along personality lines.  Spells, feats, and skills can be chosen to create a certain effect.  Once the character is built in a certain way, role playing becomes easier because you've made yourself more effective along a particular path.RC</blockquote>