How "into it" do you get?

[Tinker Gnome]

When you are RPing a character, do you really get into it? I have sometimes found myself physically grabbing other player as a gesture that my PC will do. Nobody really minds though because we all know each other very well.

 

[Crothian]

on rare times when I';m doing something major in character I'll get really into it, but for the most part not really. It also depends on the rest of the group, the more "into it" they become the more I will be

 

[Turanil]

<...> grabbing other player as a gesture that my PC will do <...>

We sometimes do that, but more to explain in detail an unusual move (in combat, or threatening a prisoner, or what not) than being totally immersed in role-playing. I have yet to see players totally "into it".

 

[Stone Angel]

Usually the only time I tend to get physical is when something major happens

Good= sports like celebration
Bad=throwing my dice or standing up really fast and swearing

But I tend to use some hand gestures and such when rping, pointing, head nods, if I want to be imposing I will stand, non threatning I usually talk with my eyes down, sneaky I tend to sink low into the table.


The Seraph of Earth and Stone

 

[Glyfair]

In a campaign that ran for many years in the 80's, the GM had created a minor crocodile god called something like "Rezalezabgib" (something he stole from a Muppet Show episode, we found out later).

He first appeared when someone had stolen his eyes. Our job was to get them back. Whenever someone would say his name, he would appear, look for his eyes, and then eat them if one wasn't there.

Eventually we got the eyes back, but one was stolen again later. The GM was discussing something in character and forgot this bit. He, absentmindedly, had the character say "Rezalezabgib" and every single player went diving for cover - under the table, out of the room, you name it.

 

[ptolemy18]

When you are RPing a character, do you really get into it? I have sometimes found myself physically grabbing other player as a gesture that my PC will do. Nobody really minds though because we all know each other very well.

I'm a pretty mild-mannered player. I HATE it when anyone (players or the DM, although I've never seen a DM do this) gets angry because of something that happens in a game. But I'm very easy-going about things like my characters dying. Just make a new character... or if the DM's a jerk, just leave.

So in other words, I only get "into it" for good purposes. In D&D, our group has all gotten up to watch the big die roll, we've cheered and laughed, I've waved my hands in a "I hit him like THIS!" gesture, and after a good die roll I once said "This is the happiest moment of my life!", to which one of the other players said something cynical.

In terms of acting, the most "into it" I've probably gotten was a horror game where I was shaking and generally acting panicked and having a good time doing it.

Jason

 

[MonsterMash]

Not too much, though that may be down to the famous British reserve.

Generally I seem to act a bit more in character in CoC rather than D&D or other fantasy games.

 

[diaglo]

Generally I seem to act a bit more in character in CoC...

 

[Hellefire]

I like to throw in facial and hand gestures sometimes. And of course voices. We sometimes use props. I had a friend once who was the caretaker for a Masonic Temple and we used to play Vampire in the basement, which was cool cuz there was a single lightbulb just hanging from the ceiling and some old coal cellars and stuff, pure concrete basement. Sometimes I use mood music if I'm running the game. The most 'into it' I got, I guess, was playing an orphan of a circus (my parents had owned a circus and gotten on the wrong side of the wrong people). I learned to juggle in real life for that character, who could juggle and ride a horse bareback standing up. The character would juggle knives and throw them out of the juggle, etc. I learned to do that with balls too, but thats about as far as it got. Was fun anyway.

I like LARPs for the acting out parts (I am, after all, an actor). I like doing it in tabletop games too, but depends on the group and how much they get into it and/or appreciate that kind of thing.

Aaron Blair
Foren Star

 

[Breakdaddy]

I am almost always the DM, so I dont get a chance to flesh out my NPCs quite as much as the Players get to flesh out their characters over the course of years. I try to put a personality template on my imporant NPCs and act in accordance with that. Sometimes I will raise my voice or change inflection to get a point across, but for the most part I try to convey emotions in my narrative instead of smacking the players around (although sometimes I REALLY want to smack those guys around).