I'm bad at the role playing part, suggest a character or trait to separate the P from the C - eviltoast

Title. Friend group and I play regularly but most of us are bad at the role playing part of it to the point where it’s hard to tell when the player or the character are speaking in some scenes. Conversations are stiff. We can’t use too heavily modified voices because we’re playing remotely. My character is about to die (probably!) so help me pick a character or trait of my new character that someone not comfortable roleplaying can stick to without feeling weird about it!

  • Mr PoopyButthole@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I’ve only done a little time as a DM, but myself and all of my players were diversly nuerodivergent.

    Some of them just did not have a performative bone in their body and I considered making or buying some kind of button that simply lights up while holding it down, as a visual indicator that they’re speaking as their character.

    Probably not for everyone, but seemed helpful to a couple of people.

    • Case@unilem.org
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      1 year ago

      I can’t speak to the neurological state of my last group, but we had a lot of people new to TTRPGs, so we had similar issues.

      We house ruled that making a gesture over your head meant it was OOC.

      This was to help separate thinking outloud as a player, from something involving the character. It had become an issue for one of our players with a low int score, lol.