One of the greatest blessings and curses of roleplaying is
that every writer has an audience. Whether it’s posting the character sheet or
responding to the roleplaying thread the character is in, each person expects
what they’ve written to be read. On the one hand, this is great because it
gives writers a real, living experience for their creations to live in. But on
the other hand, this also means that even the people who really aren’t writers,
at their cores, can still play creative fiction on their unsuspecting victims.
In practice, what you end up getting is a pretty steady
demographic with roleplaying. Every roleplayer I’ve met has fancied themselves
a fairly intelligent, rational person in their own minds. That may very well be
the case, and there’s nothing particularly wrong with it, but it does have some
serious implications for the sorts of characters you run into in your
adventures. As we have already long since established, people are inherently
drawn (usually unhelpfully) to write portions of themselves into characters. You should tread lightly.
