Help Roleplaying......

[DarkJester]

I like to roleplay, the rest of my group isn't very experienced to the concept. We all have a grand time together on the game nights, but I'm really the only one who has really even tried to roleplay. The others don't ,because like I said, they haven't been exposed to it. I think that If I (am able) to roleplay a character consistently the others will pick up on it. I know at specificly two of the group who have done roleplaying in other forms.

My problem is, I have trouble sticking to character with this group. Our dm insists on giving experience based on who kills what (I had a thread on it a while back,"help my dm see the light" or something). We talked to him about it,and for a while he changed to standard experience,but he has falled right back to where he was. I find sticking to a character concept hard to do, I find myself picking weapons/feats/multi classing just to keep up,at the sacrifice of character.

I know It would be fixed if my dm would stop giving experience out the way he does, and I am still working on that.

But since that may take a while, I'm also looking for suggestions on how to roleplay a character more fully. How to fletch out his personallity, fears, dislikes, motivations. I have trouble seeing my character as more than "Bob the fighter" sometimes.
In the past I have seen character questionairs...anyone know of any of these? (They asked stuff like what is your characters Favorite ^blank^, was is your characters least favorite ^blank^)

When you create a character,how do you go about filling in his details? Or do you just make it up as you play the character in a game?

Sorry if I ramble,but I really would like to roleplay more with the group im in,and to further there intrest I need to do a better job at it.

 

[Draxus the Tainted]

See if your DM would allow you to gain experience for your role playing, so you can keep up with the group.

As for how I determine my character's details. I usually just get a ruff idea of what I want, then after I play one or two sessions, I can fill in all the missing pieces by the way I played him in game.

 

[trimeulose]

hmmm reminds me.. I forgot to post this a while back, but any way.

Has anyone ever had a problem with a DM who wouldn't let you role play. By not let you I mean.. he kills everything you interact with and throws a monster you cant handle when you try to start a conversation or develope a character. No seriously. A better way to phrase this would be has anyone ELSE had this problem. Hi-jacking finished proceding with original message.

See if you can gain more gold and exp by role playing. the more gold the more exp. For instance if you perforom music for money have it be 1xp for every 5 gp you make. If it triggers an event have it give more exp for the more important the event. If while playing your music you happened to cause the princess to fall in love with you and therefore leaves her arranged marrige you would get like 2000 xp in addition to any money you made.

 

[bloodymage]

DarkJester, I think this link to one of the pages of "Revenge of the Gamer Chick" is just what you need. Check out the rest of her site, too. It's pretty nifty. Have fun.

PS: I just checked out the link with the post preview function and it brings up the right page but it doesn't link anywhere. You can find the Gamer Chick here.