Questions tagged [roleplaying]
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How to use charisma in role play mechanics? [closed]
The scenario:
We've been playing a DnD 5e campaign for over a year. I'm playing a L8 tiefling sorcerer with dragon ancestry. We finally confronted a White Dragon, between Young and Adult age (it was ...
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What should I do? My GM seems very dismissive of my choices and is not giving good reasons for it
Summary of the Problem
My GM does not like the name of my character but gives poor reasons for not liking it and is gung-ho to change aspects of my character for little reason. What do I do to protect ...
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How can I as a player handle the NPCs in a campaign stealing the spotlight?
To preface this, I'll start by saying that I've been playing D&D for years! I've been a player in plenty of campaigns, and have ran a couple 5e campaigns of my own. My point is, I have quite a bit ...
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How to provide opportunities for role playing in a single player campaign focused on travelling and wilderness survival?
I am preparing to run a single person campaign for a friend and I'm not quite sure how to provide them enough roleplaying opportunities, especially since a big part of the campaign will involve ...
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How to introduce a dangerous looking character to the rest of the party?
So, I am running a DnD campaign, and we have another player joining. Not really in the middle of the campaign, but the party already played a few sessions without him.
Now the problem is, that the new ...
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How to make a session that doesn't have combat, NPC's or dialog? [closed]
My group will be heading into a strange, alien wilderness that will have no NPC's, no dialog and no combat.
Without the back and forth or dialogue, meeting new characters, etc. I'm having trouble ...
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How to role play a character with low constitution in DND [closed]
So I have rolled up stats for a new character in one of my friend's campaigns. I am a ranger, and the party is stuck in a forest. As such I am "the leader of the party". As it stands the ...
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My Character feels useless compared to the party
We’re playing Tomb of Annihilation.
Three of us are goliath brothers.
Me and another are barbarians and the other is a druid.
Our newest player is an elf ranger.
My backstory is that I come from a ...
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How would you deal with an (actual) etymology that makes no sense in-game?
In mythical worlds (such as, but not limited to, D&D) languages are a thing.
People often speak two or more of them.
Yet, for the sake of simplicity, players and DMs tend to speak and play in ...
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How to involve a PC who just waits to be talked to?
Our group is running through a campaign setting where, among other things, Inquisitors are universally feared persecutors of magic users. (Shocking and original, I know.)
The GM's girlfriend has just ...
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How to role-play monsters with Diplomacy ranks?
I see a lot of monsters have diplomacy ranks on their sheet, and some of them even have a pretty high rank of it. I assume that means those monsters should be able to (and would likely tend to) use ...
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DM is asking me to drop my character because it is from A Song of Ice and Fire
Background
I have started playing with a new group in a new D&D campaign.
I have been reading the A Song of Ice and Fire books and really liked the Greyjoy plotlines, so I decided to make my ...
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How do I help my player, play a cool character?
Similar to a previous question about playing smarter characters I'm looking for techniques and strategies for playing badass characters that are a lot cooler than me.
Specifically I'm asking for a ...
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How do you LARP highly observant characters?
I'm designing a character for a World of Darkness parlour LARP who's supposed to be highly perceptive and observant. (A tad beyond human capability, at character creation.)
What are your strategies ...
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My group says my roleplaying style is incorrect. How do I roleplay correctly for them?
I'm currently playing in a 5th edition forgotten realms campaign and I keep getting comments on how I don't role-play correctly. My character is a tiefling rogue hellbent on becoming a god but I can't ...
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