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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Altair" data-source="post: 3993361" data-attributes="member: 59131">Hello gents, I've got a small problem that I'd like to ask for your advice on.I'm very used to playing DnD over message boards, so when I got together a group of people IRL to DM, I quickly found that I was almost completely incapable of roleplaying in person.My four main problems are this:1) I am incapable of roleplaying as a female NPC. Whenever I put on my best falsetto and try to roleplay her (even if her dialogue is only a few sentences long), my players all crack up laughing, and I feel like a gigantic dork.2) Whenever I try to hold conversation between 2 different NPCs (putting on different voices for each participant in the conversation), it feels like I'm talking to myself, and once again, I feel like a gigantic dork.3) I find myself in the habit of simply avoiding these situations more and more by simply saying "the girl tells you that..." or "you overhear a conversation about...", which just seems to betray the whole idea of roleplaying.4) My players rarely roleplay unless I actually drag them into a conversation with an NPC and I have a feeling they are just as embarrassed as I am. They usually just state "my character chats up the locals" (for example) rather than actually roleplaying him chatting up the locals.How do you DMs deal with these problems in your games?</blockquote>