I always encourage my players to paraphrase if they're trying to be more than they are in real life. It's totally fine to be like "I tell him with a lot of big words that he's a doodyhead"
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I know this is a joke, but if you really want to improve your character play, I highly suggest taking a full week, spending 20 -30 mins a day roleplaying to imagined scenarios, replying to them out loud.
As most actors can tell you, if you want to nail down a character all you need is practice, once you gain that confidence you'll be the most interesting character at the table
My most controversial/unpopular D&D opinion is that high CHA characters should only be played by high CHA people.
What if an awkward person wants to have a power fantasy about being a smooth talker? What if they want to play a warlock or bard?
Counter-hot-take: Rip the charisma stat and its skills out of the game. It's half-baked as it is. The cha classes can be moved to int or wis.
I had a 3 CHA character and I struggled to actually be that low of a charisma irl because I kept talking normally, so I had to fake stutters and be extremely creepy to make up for it. Oh and I was schizophrenic. Didn't plan for it. GM made me do it.
Pretty accurate for high INT esp with low charisma and/or wisdom.
Sputtering angry nerd is super valid.
I say "fuck you, you big asshole" in smartese. Or is it smartlish. My character would know. 😞