Made a meme about my recent D&D experience

  • itsnicodegallo@lemm.ee
    6·
    6 months ago

    Yeah, the problem with self-inserting into D&D characters is that you get personally affected by what happens to them and how they’re treated. It’s called “bleed”. Plus, if it’s a self-insert, you probably play them not too dissimilarly from how you act in real life, and they’re probably used to referring to that personality that they’re familiar with as a whatever pronoun they know it by.

    • JayJLeas@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      6 months ago

      I don’t often self-insert. This character is probably the most self-insert I’ve done in the 10 years I’ve been playing D&D and most of that is incidental (him being raised in a theocratic city was really just because the addition made his story more fun). The gender thing would just be nice, and it’s a pretty minor aspect of what your character is, I would think. Besides, I think there’s always going to be aspects of the player that leak into the character, even if you don’t start off that way, it’s the nature of the game.

    • Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      I must admit that finding groups is difficult and I’ve had one that I didn’t like too much but it fell apart anyway. Currently I’m down to one group and lots of scheduling issues :( My point is that I’d put up with quite a bit just to be able to play, even now.

      • DerArzt@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        I don’t know your group, but I would assume party members don’t do it out of malice (especially if they don’t know about your private situation).

        • JayJLeas@lemmy.worldOP
          3·
          6 months ago

          I know they don’t do it out of malice. I even sent them the meme as well. They’re (mostly) a good group, but it would be nice if they roleplayed in character more. I think a few of them are pretty new players though, which probably affects that.