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    Barbarian in the Playground
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    May 2009

    Default Re: [3.5] How do you roleplay a mute character?

    I played a mute fighter in GURPS who would get people's attention by snapping his fingers. Generally, he would let others discuss matters, and when someone said something that he strongly agreed with or strongly disagreed with, he'd snap for their attention and then nod approval or wave his hand back and forth to express disagreement.

    And that was pretty much the extent of his communication. Agreeing or disagreeing. Sometimes we'd even have fun with it, and the other characters would ignore him while he was snapping his fingers furiously (and eventually stamping his feet, or banging his weapon against his shield), trying to get his opinion noted.

    He'd do the occasional bit of pantomine, like pointing at a weapon he wanted and then at himself, but was far more likely to just walk over and take what he wanted (and dismissively wave off the rest).

    In his introduction to the game, himself and another character were intended to be found as prisoners, but the party ignored the door to the jail and was moving on, so the GM said, "You hear someone calling for help." and we were like, "Who? You said the mage was unconscious so he couldn't shapeshift his way out of the chains, and Ogre is mute..."

    "Fine, you hear someone loudly clanging chains against the wall!"

    He was also illiterate, and a party member convinced him that the shield he was carrying, which had his name 'Ogre' across it in big red letters, actually said 'Dumb***,' leading to him throwing it away. Fortunately, we never returned to the town where he bought it, or he was going to beat up the man who sold it to him...
    Last edited by Set; 2009-11-09 at 04:55 AM.