I'd never done any, actually! When I did those cameos with you, that was actually the first time I'd ever done anything re: games. I built the character for Salle d'Armes at basically the same time I built the character for the game I'm doing with Stephan, although the game with Stephan started a little earlier than Salle d'Armes. The character I built with Stephan is a lot more like me (actual, real-life me), and I'm finding her a ton easier to play then Claude, who I'm still having a hard time figuring out how to make work, honestly. If I were doing it over again, I would have made a different kind of character who was easier to role play and fit better into the group, especially since I don't know all of y'all that well and don't know how you guys work exactly (the game I do with Stephan is 2/3rds people I knew well pre-game, which made it more natural to play with them). But it's still a lot of fun, and fun to do!
But yeah, this was my path into playing games: Stephan would come home from the game you guys did and tell me stories about what happened, I got all invested in the plotline and into the story, Steph/you invited me down to do those two cameos, and now I am doing these two games with you. But that is the sum total of my experience heretofore.
The character I built with Stephan is a lot more like me (actual, real-life me), and I'm finding her a ton easier to play then Claude, who I'm still having a hard time figuring out how to make work, honestly.
That one kind of surprises me, because your playing of Claude has seemed perfectly natural. Yes, he's having some difficulty relating to the other characters-but the other characters are having difficulty relating to each other; at least Claude didn't try to punch anyone, or pull a knife on them! And his trying to be the voice of reason, and calm things down, seemed very much in character.
I don't think you should worry about whether Claude fits in with the other characters or not. Steph's character Gianni was a misfit among the other characters in Whispers, but that was part of what made him fun to watch.
Anyway, thanks for the answers. I've been interested in how accessible RPGs are as a narrative medium to people who aren't familiar with them, and it appears that you have less experience than any of my other new players has had, but were still able to figure it out, which I find encouraging. I certainly have been enjoying having you as a player! So that's a useful bit of evidence.
But yeah, this was my path into playing games: Stephan would come home from the game you guys did and tell me stories about what happened, I got all invested in the plotline and into the story, Steph/you invited me down to do those two cameos, and now I am doing these two games with you. But that is the sum total of my experience heretofore.
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That one kind of surprises me, because your playing of Claude has seemed perfectly natural. Yes, he's having some difficulty relating to the other characters-but the other characters are having difficulty relating to each other; at least Claude didn't try to punch anyone, or pull a knife on them! And his trying to be the voice of reason, and calm things down, seemed very much in character.
I don't think you should worry about whether Claude fits in with the other characters or not. Steph's character Gianni was a misfit among the other characters in Whispers, but that was part of what made him fun to watch.
Anyway, thanks for the answers. I've been interested in how accessible RPGs are as a narrative medium to people who aren't familiar with them, and it appears that you have less experience than any of my other new players has had, but were still able to figure it out, which I find encouraging. I certainly have been enjoying having you as a player! So that's a useful bit of evidence.
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Hogwash! You are nowhere near as morally ambiguous as Katja, nor as quick to judge.
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