Do you ever see aspects of your friends in their characters?

>heavily religious "nice-guy" almost always wants to play CE serial killer or other insane character
>dudebro is always himself, whatever class is most related to the main character of whatever anime/tv show/movie he's into right now (it's fairy tail right now)
>girl who always argues ooc always wants to play good-aligned mediator type characters

Got a Gunslinger in the party while their player is a Texan

Self-proclaimed MMA fighter plays as Clint Eastwood

Brazilian neo-nazi plays melee-specialist

Brit hoodlum plays Ork-fucker

Eh...

How sincere and benevolent, and which state do you live in? We can help you hide/eat the body if he turns out to be a full-on Sociopath. Does he ever talk about running for office?

>creative but stoic artsy guy always plays loud and hardy dwarves
>depressed kinda mean girl play High Dex Optimists
>Femine looking Nazi Weeb friend plays Black, Fit, Gay Trap Monstergirls
Last one makes perfect sense to be fair.

The only aspect of my friends I see in their characters is that they want to fuck their characters.

Remember folks, playing your waifu will ruin your laifu.

Almost every character I've ever played has been a particular aspect of myself expanded into an entire character, so I'd rather hope so.

>IT friends play stat blocks
>shut-in, socially awkward, artist friend plays off-the-wall goofballs with more social energy than skill
>acerbic, creative, obsessive friend plays comic relief supporting characters draped over stat blocks

I want less friends that play stat blocks. ;_;

If I'm ever stuck when making a character, I like to take a single positive aspect of my personality and base a character around it.

e.g. I'm pretty honest (sometimes too honest) so I made a character who never lies and went from there. I'm usually stoic so I based a character around keeping their composure. After I had a baseline I figured out what the character's quirks and backstory would be that would lead to being chill when most would flip their shit, or why they wouldn't lie to get out of a bad situation.

You could do this with negative aspects of your personality as well if you're comfortable enough with who you are to do so. I've made characters based off my propensity towards greediness, etc.

what if the character is so furry that it looks like a snowflake

>artsy autist
>always ends up playing a not-so-intelligent character that still has more common sense then everyone else IC and OOC

Idealistic people tend to play sweet, heroic waifus.

Cynical people tend to play edgy, anti-heroic waifus.

That's about the extent of it in my experience.

>I'm an incredibly boring man obsessed with gathering information on things I'm interested in and completely disinterested in other people
>play a true neutral wizard
sounds about right

Oh yes.
>Somewhat abrasive dude with cruel ideas of social reform always plays assholes with no empathy.
>Nice guy with a bit of a temper and authority problems and a bad way with words play experts with a temper and authority problems
>Quiet, thoughtful teacher plays quiet, thoughtful, intelligent characters
To name a few.

What's a stat block?

a (usually) min-maxed character who is built with the game's rules in mind, as opposed to playing a role and being an interesting character

>new people always base their characters off pop culture
>"what class is most like batman?" "Oh your character is from supernatural too?"

>dudebro guy can never have sex with a dude ever
>every time he's played a chick, they've always been lesbians
>90% of his characters are dual wielding fighters, because Troy?

>new people always base their characters off pop culture
>"what class is most like batman?" "Oh your character is from supernatural too?"

I always just let new people do this. "I want to play a Terminator lol" "Oh cool check out this warforged race they're like terminators but magically brought to life rock statues instead of metal robots."

I mean half the time they get bored of their character mid campaign and change a huge aspect of its personality or ask to abandon it altogether.

That's why I think new people should always start with a oneshot or a super short campaign. Unfortunately, the other players/DM have already told everyone about how they should be a part of our exciting pirate adventure, which we've been running for 8 months, that now has to include fucking batman and harley quinn.

I don't like the addition of the new couple.

>Rude, interrupting, loud-mouth plays strong, macho barbarians/fighters/paladins who like to take charge of the party

>Student who's studying dentistry and is rather snobby plays intelligent magic users who torture in the most creative ways

>Really nice, friendly guy plays a vareity of characters, all of them being some level of bro

>Quiet, snarky guys plays cold, reserved self-centred rangers or rogues

In my other group

>One guy who we all joke is a psychopath always plays characters with no empathy/highly pragmatic, although they always work with the party

>Brooding, intellectual, cultured writer plays very detailed, pain stakingly created, characters who are rather edgy

>Cheerful, if naieve and sometimes obnoxious guy always plays charismatic types, normally with some womanizing along the way

As for me

>I play a variety of characters, although I normally choose what to play based on what others are going to play/party balance, and not what I want to play. Although online I'm more willing to play what I want to play. Read into that if you want.

In that case I'd just assemble a roster of pre-made characters for them to pick.

But what do you want to play?

It really does vary, I like playing a whole bunch of different characters, although I tend to lean towards moral, sensible characters. Not the leader of the party, but one to plan things out and try and get the party working together.

>Ladies man, metal head, nerd friend always plays Rob Zombie titty girl witches.
>Military Nerd friend always plays backwards lawful good paladins
>Normal guy with temper plays movie characters or characters from cinematic games.
>black friend always plays black characters

Mine seem normal enough and unrelated to their quirks. Except the first one. He sure does love titty witches.

Ah thank you user.

All of my characters are homosexual. Doesn't matter much usually though. They often become leaders tho.

>Cop plays by-the-book, LN Paladin prone to fits of anger.
>Weeaboo plays a N Ranger based on Geralt of Rivia.
>Party comedian plays mostly CG good-hearted prankster/joke characters.
>Other Cop plays hedonist with a drinking problem.
I encourage them to play as something they (the players) are not, to try to get them out of their comfort zones. This is their first experience with TTRPG's so things are going slow.

>I encourage them to play as something they (the players) are not, to try to get them out of their comfort zones. This is their first experience with TTRPG's so things are going slow.

This all reminds me of this guy I met at the D&D club in college. If you saw the Full Frontal Assault post I made, I'm the same guy, it was the same club, and I met him the same year.

He was Either Oman or Saudi Arabia, and D&D just fucking knocked his socks off. He was, for some reason, amazed at the idea of using his imagination to play a game, and not having to play himself.

His first role up (and only one I know of) was as distant from him as he could possibly be. A female gnome paladin. He was ungodly excited to play her and so happy to be a useful member of the team. After our only adventure together, he just went on and on about how amazing it was to be totally free and limited only by his imagination. Almost brought a tear to my eye ;_;

He later went on to fuck a slut in club who was studying Arabic (in more ways than one), and she eventually was in the same party as me, where she started dating the rules lawyer.

Oh man, that's great (the Saudi RP guy part, no the slut part). I'm foreverDM but if I could, I'd play a female character, just as a RP experience. I'm still trying to find my footing when it comes to female NPCs tho.

Who doesn't?

>quiet guy always plays the caster that doesn't know how social interaction works, even if they're supposed to be a high-ranking member of the clergy
Yep
>That Guy always plays a Human Male Fighter on a sliding scale of Guts to Geralt, and in every instance is a blatant self-insert power fantasy character
Yes, and I hate it
>Based Forever GM tosses a non-combatant healer DMPC to round out the party and provide newcomers with a waifu to get invested in the game
Yes, but they can still pull off NPCs of other personalities, obviously.
>fun guy plays shy blondies that just want to be supportive but can still beat the tar out of half the party if they really needed to.
Haven't known him that long, but I can still answer Yes to that.
>I play immature oddballs with no regard for social norms and a wicked sense of humor
Definitely, but I'm trying to branch out in archetypes.

We all pray for twenty innocents

>mfw when no hellbilly themed campaign