Posted by Polemachus on April 6, 2000 at 12:57:01:
In Reply to: Does it take a fucked up person to rp a fucked up person?nt posted by Anony on April 6, 2000 at 09:34:22:
Does it take a fucked up person to roleplay a fucked up person? No Does it take a fucked up person to roleplay a fucked up person WELL? Yes, probably. Why? Because, even though minor, roleplaying a truly fucked up person when you the player are not a truly fucked up person probably leads to some low-grade cognitive dissonance. That is, how you really feel, and how you think your character would feel clash inside your mind leading to one of two situations. You break away slightly from the "fucked up" person role, or you create a new personality for yourself in which case you make yourself fucked up 'cause you now have MPD. So, you either become a poorly roleplayed fucked up person or a real life fucked up person. Fun eh? I'm one to think that the truly fantastic roleplayers(especially those that do evil well) are probably slightly psychotic players. Who knows though.