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<blockquote data-quote="innerdude" data-source="post: 8502635" data-attributes="member: 85870">This plays into a key point for me. At surface glance, having another character to play off of is helpful because it helps me take my character out of a vacuum and into the actual &quot;space within the fiction.&quot;Character development can only go so far within a vacuum. All of us recognize that the &quot;self&quot; we perceive when we're alone versus the &quot;self&quot; we perceive in a work context, versus the &quot;self&quot; we perceive in a social context are different. Perhaps not fundamentally different in most areas, but different.There's sooooo much nuance to taking a character's starting persona / basic beliefs and motivations, and then projecting them into how that individual actually acts toward other people and situations.Barring any form of psychosis (alcohol, drug-induced, implicit, or otherwise), in real life we are far more self-aware, calculating, discerning, and measured in our approaches to other people than what I see from most RPG characterizations.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="innerdude, post: 8502635, member: 85870"] This plays into a key point for me. At surface glance, having another character to play off of is helpful because it helps me take my character out of a vacuum and into the actual "space within the fiction." Character development can only go so far within a vacuum. All of us recognize that the "self" we perceive when we're alone versus the "self" we perceive in a work context, versus the "self" we perceive in a social context are different. Perhaps not fundamentally different in most areas, but different. There's sooooo much nuance to taking a character's starting persona / basic beliefs and motivations, and then projecting them into how that individual actually acts toward other people and situations. Barring any form of psychosis (alcohol, drug-induced, implicit, or otherwise), in real life we are far more self-aware, calculating, discerning, and measured in our approaches to other people than what I see from most RPG characterizations. [/QUOTE]

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