Switchaholics Anonymous

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My best advice is to take a character that is like yourself in many ways. The closer to yourself a character is, the easier it will be to get "in-character".

tl;dr longass unneeded rant ahead

Eh, I'd take this with a grain of salt. Roleplaying for a lot of people is about escapism, and sometimes it is more interesting to play a character very different from yourself. I also tend to find projecting too hard onto a character can in some ways make you care a bit too much about them- though this is more relevant in situations where death, for example, is important. However, it still means you may be less inclined to take risks with them, which is part of the fun of roleplaying on a site like this. So I figured I would mention that this should be kept in mind.

That's not to say play a character you hate or have no attachment to at all. Of course not, it's your character, you should probably like them. Just try not to get so attached to your character you've preplanned their entire life story and would be completely crushed and upset OOC if anything bad happened to them at all. (again, a little upset is one thing, but at some point you as a player need to be able to take a step back and separate yourself from the character. this was a huge mistake i made as a new roleplayer.)