If I've decided Jinxx will be defeated, then I focus on RP. For me, the easiest way to quell my competative juices is to have some notion of whether I'll win or lose going in. This can be particularly true in PvP, where it can be easy to feel it's a test of your ability to wage NWN against a human opponent. As a character grows from concept or even an assemblege of stats, that person will feel more real and it will be easier to empathize for him or her.Īs far as the need to 'win,' I suspect that comes less from being overly identified with your PC as misdirected competitiveness. I suspect it's hard to keep distance from a PC you play a lot and have that PC develop into a believable (or at least complex) person.

However, my natural instinct is to identify with my character, so that overtime, I've lost a lot of the distance I had from Jinxx at the beginning. While M had my sense of humor, Jinxx has almost nothing in common with me: in many ways, she's the anti-me (except I'm just gosh-darn sweet and so is Jinxx ). How do you all feel about this? Am I alone in my thinking here? Challenge yourself by making a character that is nothing like you in RL. I find it much better to make a character and play that role.

I have even seen players give the advice that making a character that reflects your beliefs is a good idea. I find this RP flawed because players take many thing personally and some don't understand that others are not preforming actions based on what they would do, but rather what their character would do. If the loose they are embarrassed or angry and if they win they are elated.

These players seem to take PVP and other things very seriously. I have come across many players in this game that make their characters to reflect themselves as if they were an IG Hero or villain. I was thinking about something and thought it would be interesting to discuss.

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