How do you choose your role?

[annelidsquisher]

I recently had the opportunity to play in a game recently, which is a big deal for me as I end up DMing some 90% of the time. Now, I usually tend to come a bit late to the party, and as such just go with whatever niche needs filling. However, this time I was first (!!!), and free to choose whatever role suited my fancy. It was so mind-bogglingly

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[jlsgaladriel]

I tend to go for a good role-playing role, with a little teeny allowance for my interior min-maxer -- I find I'm frustrated with a character who isn't very good at something!

I've discovered, though, that I need to play high-charisma characters. My biggest failure in terms of my own enjoyment was an elven druid I created with a fairly low charisma, a character who was racist (not out of meanness, but out of total lack of familiarity) and awkward with people. I found that the people I was playing with -- the same folks with whom I'd happily gamed a charismatic aasimar bard/wizard for more than a year -- those same people started not to like *me,* to see my character's in-role choices as *me* being difficult. I guess I role-play too well?

[falkreon]

suave elvish rogue. Every time man. Every time.

[jlsgaladriel]

pah, you make a fairly roguish jawless forsaken, too.