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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 9787879" data-attributes="member: 6779196">OC is an exonym. I have never encountered anyone who described themselves as a member of “the OC community.” I have encountered lots of people who are incredibly judgmental of anyone they deem to be part of the OC community. So, again, what specifically do you mean by “OC”?These are not specific criticisms. We’ve already established that working with the DM to homebrew options to realize your character is not inherently “OC” (otherwise the original cleric and ranger would have been “OC”), and Bolaire is certainly not a Mary Sue in the classic sense of being a protagonist with no meaningful character flaws. So, again, what are your specific critiques of the character that lead you to identify him as “OC”?3 is the judgment I’m talking about. “Poor roleplayer” is a judgment of the human being playing the character, not a quality of the character, or even of the roleplay. What about the way the character is being portrayed do you find to be poor?We don’t know that. We know that he has played a lot of Masquerade and CoC, we don’t know that he hasn’t played a lot of D&D too. Moreover, the fact that he enjoys those games should probably be an indication that his tastes lean more macabre than the standard D&D options. That suggests a high likelihood that his interest in non-standard options comes from wanting something a bit with a bit more macabre to it than the off-the-shelf options are offering.Seems like an extremely shallow reading of those characters to me.He has a type he prefers, as in my experience do most D&D players. I would certainly not say he struggles to differentiate his characters through characterization. All five of his characters in Critical Role so far have been very different from each other in terms of voice, speech patterns, attitude, and behaviors. Bolaire does have a very similar accent to Percy, but that’s unsurprising because in both cases the voice is being used as class coding. They’re both wealthy and detached, which for various sociological reasons an RP accent tends to be an effective shorthand for. But I could easily tell all of his characters apart from each other from just a few line readings, and I’d be willing to bet most people could. And that’s before considering characters he has played in non-Critical Role actual plays, in which he has displayed plenty of range.This is very clearly what it comes down to. Some people think that’s too “weird” and they label Taliesin “OC” and a “poor roleplayer” to try to justify their bizarre visceral aversion to “weird” characters.</blockquote>

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