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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 3330919" data-attributes="member: 7280">Nah. I won't deny that the continuous drone of other characters noting the distinct lack of a G on my character sheet isn't annoying sometimes, but on the other hand I LIKE the roleplaying opportunities that you get from...vigorous discussion and exposition in PbP. I mean, in sit down games you rarely have enough time to sit down and launch a monologue of any sort. That means there are conversation heavy elements in PbP that are easier to accomplish here than in real life, which I think is fantastic.Usually I'm more worried that I'm ticking off the other player, because it's true: I've been running a bunch of grating sorts of characters for a while. Once I discovered the joys of italics for internal dialog that's helped ME some with the worrying bits, but I think it sometimes still gets translated as actual speech by the reader unintentionally.Anyways, so yeah, Janis isn't fond of anyone besides her snake. She's self-centered and probably brutal in her assessments of people, including herself if she'd take a moment to tackle that. I've been trying to stress though, that she's not a bad person. She's Han Solo, Sawyer from Lost, Codelia and Anya from Buffy...Maybe an unlikable person, but so was Han Solo to everyone but the audience. That's all I ask that everyone keep in mind when trying to frame her in reference. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Her lack of a G in her alignment reflects more on her lack of "Good" reasons for doing good, but just because she's probably every bit as vitriolic and mean as she comes across it doesn't mean she isn't doing things more or less as she believes to be in everyone's overall best interest (with her own interests being in the forefront, of course). She may never be a noble champion of heroic deeds, but that's the character. I like flawed, somewhat reluctant heroes. It's easier and more interesting for me to write, which is what this is all about for me really - an opportunity to force myself to write a bit.</blockquote>

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