Anyone played interesting, flawed characters? No, not a flaw as in "lol this flaw makes him funny/cute...

Anyone played interesting, flawed characters? No, not a flaw as in "lol this flaw makes him funny/cute, look at this Bard who flirts and beds every woman XD" but a character with a flaw that's central to the character and not liked by others. Something that can be highly detrimental.

I have played a character who had gone insane with grief during a post-apoc game. I really get into character, and it was stressful, exhausting, and I wouldn't play it again.

I'm currently playing an elderly woman who might be somewhat senile. Does that count?

I had a character a while back who was blind, but frequent abuse of detect magic spells almost completely mitigated the effect.

I am slowly working towards it.

The best I could do with my last character, is make him similar to pic related.

I'm playing an idiot, illiterate, doesn't get sarcasm kind of fighter. It's pretty fun not being responsible for planning out the party's next move and doing stuff based on my characters own beliefs.

My only problem is I tend to use my flaws and it just feels like I'm playing more myself than an actually different character

Every character should be flawed, it's kind of in the definition of a personality.

My "main" who I still refer to when talking about any kind of "your character" thread is dumb, volatile, easy to anger, amoral, loyal to a fault, with authority issues. I guess those count as flawed traits.

I played an orc who was an "ethical cannibal" and didn't see a problem with Torturing the bad guys for information - after all they did just try to kill us.

I also played an LE chelish noblewoman who was 1/4 Efreet, and worshipped th3 god of civilization and was working to keep the evil artifacts out of the public, and secretly funneling them to the chelish military for keeping the peace and defending their borders and stopping pirates when the group wasnt looking.

I also played a shadowrun elven mystic adept who was super racist against orcs, whom he didnt hate, but literally saw as useful animals who "deserved just as much respect as a working dog and therefore should not be abused". In the heat of a firefight he once shouted at another party member to "save the orc puppies". Because of him the group fell in with an elven supremacist organization until we learned they were planning genocide, them we immediately flopped to helping interpol, whom we had determined were spying on us. Feargus' orc racism was not liked by our troll doctor (whose name I dont remember).

So uh.... Frequently.

my minotaur character has one eye and nearsightedness, and is too curious for his own good.

If I think about, the most flaws my characters have are more kind of a spleen or a annonying attitude or weakness, like beeing kind of snobby or a know-it-better or endlessly monologuing about the style of architecture of the city the party is in, but no one of the characters is interested. But there are some flaws, that could be more dangerous.

For example, one of my characters is fairly patriotic and kind of arrogant against less developed kingdoms and actually rascist against most of the southern lands of the continent. To be fair, the most citys there are highly criminal and corrupt slavetrading shitholes, but he assumes these traits to most peoble who are from their, in his mind most of them are simply bad peoble and sees only the bad things they do. And blames then for most of the problems of the continent, even if his conclusion is fairly inaccurate. Not as extreme as "((they)) are turning the frogs gay" but still enough to cause problems with the most characters from there, we deal with.