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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KenNYC" data-source="post: 7532959" data-attributes="member: 6791261">I never got the appeal of playing dumb characters.  It's very limiting and in my experience people just use it as an excuse to act chaotically for a laugh, or perhaps to talk a little like Goofy.  Then when it comes time to being dumb when it would be significant, suddenly they want the wisdom of Solomon.I have had great fun playing social interactions btw PCs.  I was once a LE cleric who was a religious zealot sociopath murderer killing all sinners and my spell of choice was Zone Of Truth and I used it on a PC who I felt was not sticking to the tenets the player said he was devoted to.   In the opposite direction, I was once a CG nice kid of say 17, a rogue.   My friend was playing a high charisma person a few years older, so I always deferred to that character and played it as if he was  an authority figure.   I don't think he ever noticed but it did alter his roleplaying since he would wind up being forced to make the plans or do extra talking with the NPCs since I just played it like he was the leader.  There is no right way to roleplay I guess, but the safest approach is for everyone to not try to be Brando and instead go for John Wayne:  Just play different spins on yourself.    I know what I would do at all times, so I can be me the evil wizard, or me the saintly paladin, and there is no chance I will be forced to roleplay something I don't want to since if I am doing it it must make sense to me.  That to me seems more immersive with the role you are playing than just arbitrarily deciding "now I will play Lou Costello the ranger"  and leads to better actual playing of the role.     I have never been a brain damaged barbarian, so really could not give a convincing portrayal of one.  I could play Ken the Barbarian quite easily.</blockquote>

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