Great character development happens during random conversations in chat RP, I’d expect that from tabletop RP as well… unfortunately I have only played a very few games of D&D itself. I guess I need to find a group to help inject some of that fervor for just talking about the little things (that quite often are not that little after all), if this “I don’t know what my character would talk about” thing is commonplace. Of course, actually speaking the RP words is a different animal from typing them where the words can be edited until satisfactory… but yeah, it’s still good practice and quite often the small talk words my chat characters say get little or no editing before they go live.

Sometimes I and whoever I’m playing with will scheme up a plot point to move the story itself on further when the characters have run out of things to talk about… which sounds like almost the exact opposite of what’s being discussed in the episode. I’m not saying we never have plot-heavy RP in chat, in fact there are sooo many situations where it’s plot-plot-plot-plot with a smattering of downtime/small-talk character building here and there. But yeah, there’s quite often a whole lot of little stuff, and then we’re like “…these guys need some forward momentum now.” Ironically, the character building itself feels like forward momentum, and the heavy dungeon crawl player is perhaps missing out on that aspect of RP.

Heffe weizens are also good for non-bitter beers.