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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 371655" data-attributes="member: 259">I've been in a similar situation, SoulStorm.  I can definitely relate.My namesake, Pielorinho, was a 15-year-old wizard who practically wore a button saying, "Everything I needed to know I learned in musty old tomes with big words."  To reflect this, I spoke constantly using ten-dollar words in convoluted sentences.  It helped that it was a PBEM game, in which I could compose his elaborate speech.NPCs in the game didn't take him very seriously, and they grew more and more insulting, until one session's insults were so blistering that it threw me into a foul mood for most of the next day.  My GM wrote me an email that night saying she hoped there were no hard feelings.Actually, I wrote back, there were.  What the heck was up with the abuse?It turned out that she thought I was using 10-dollar words to reflect the fact that my character was an arrogant jerk looking down his nose at everyone, that he was being insufferable and mocking people who didn't know the meaning of prolix.  So I talked to her, described how I saw him as a naive little boy who was speaking how he thought adults were supposed to speak and who was honestly clueless that most people didn't know what he was talking about.After that, NPCs responded to me as the naive little boy instead of as an arrogant tweaker, and the game was much more fun for everyone.Moral of the story?  Maybe you and the DM have different concepts of how the PC is acting.  Maybe the DM doesn't realize how the NPC abuse is making the game less fun for you.  Be up-front with im about it, and hopefully you can solve the problem amicably.If not, tell him to meet you at dawn, and bring a second.Daniel</blockquote>

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