Mr. Nice Guy may be his outward persona: a jovial character with tousled brown hair, bushy beard and thick glasses.
The central innovations of D&D were (1) the bringing of games and stories together, (2) the idea that a game's action could happen in an imaginary space rather than needing a board or map, and (3) the idea of creating and developing a character as an outward persona of the player, one with which they would develop a kind of kinship.
Whether looking inward or outward, their characters talk a blue streak, but words ultimately fail them.
But the outward-directed character of others prior lapses allows us to dodge the ego-puncturing nature of our own.
Desdemona and Emilia, for example, are "to outward appearance, characters of common life, not more distinguished than women generally are, by difference of rank and situation".
If he tones down the emotional temperature of his characters' outward expression and keeps his image-making within a narrow spectrum of visual variety, it's to heighten the power and scope of nuance.
Despite the characters' outward differences, they all turn out to be in the same existential boat, an intention of the playwright that is underscored by their often speaking at the same time, rendering each of their plaintive voices indistinguishable in the overall cacophony.
PHYSIOGNOMY, the art or science of predicting inward character from outward form, has had its ups and downs over the years.
We speak of "voice" as an expression of character, the outward sign of the inner self.
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