Playing a character

Just some general hints about roleplaying a character. I suggest reading the article Character Creation first to better understand how to make a character, and perhaps also Story Telling to better understand the workings of the game you are participating in. This guide will not give any hints as how to create a character, but rather how to OWN a character you have already created.  
==You already made the character, what now?==
So, you made a decent character (well, at least the GM approved it right? .. Right? If not, maybe you should go read the character creation page again)? Good. Now you want to start playing him? Well, first thing you should do is write down a few words about the characters personality, and you probably already did that, but you just need a few pointers that might be relevant. This will help you remember how your character feels about certain subjects. 
To start playing your character properly, you need to stop playing the game and start being someone else. That's an art in it's own right... It's called acting. Your character probably doesn't care about meta aspects of the game, such as level or stats. That also means that your chjaracter cannot care about the obvious fact that there happens to be a plot that the GM worked hard to create. You need to realize that your character most likely has personal goals much more interesting to him, than following some plot. This might be small things through out the game that your character takes personally and spends a lot of time on. Maybe it's an unsignificant NPC that made a serious impact on your character for reasons only obvious to you or any other obvious distractions. 
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