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Making a Tengu who is obsessed with things. He has a bag of stuff ranging from Jewelry to rocks and if he finds something that peeks his interest he takes something from his bag and replaces it with the thing he finds. Luckily I have a gm who is willing to put up with my shenanigans and I will not go out of my way to make the gm irritated. Anyways I was looking for ways to RP a Tengu, im great at making builds and solving puzzles but I really suck at roleplay in general. Im looking for a good outline for how to inflect my voice and act around fellow players so that im not as 2 dimensional around other characters.
Other information if that helps
Chef that will make anything into food as he has such a limited pallet that taste really dosent matter
Inquisitor (trade subdomain) (still looking for a god if you have any suggestions)
Trying to make it any form of Neutral that isnt evil.
Sorry about the format I dont post a lot but any help is appreciated!
tl;dr how do I roleplay a tengu
"Hi everyone I'm *SQUAWK!*" Should be good enough.
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First off, Abadar is the go-to deity of trade and mercantile (Lawful Neutral). The temples double as banks and trade hubs and are typically found in every major settlement in the cannon setting. That'd make for a good trade inquisitor.
As far as RP goes, it's the little quirks you give your character that really make them what they are. You already mentioned a great way to play up your character as a bit of a trinket hoarder. You're also a trade domain inquisitor. If you choose Abadar as your patron, you're basically setting yourself up as a tax collector (just one of a few different role play routes you could go with a trade inquisitor of Abadar). Maybe you work with the church to recover goods from tax evaders that use offshore accounts. Your calling card could be the various trinkets your character collects and leaves behind.
As far as voice inflection, maybe look up some videos of crows mimicking speech, and practice your inflection? Don't beat yourself up over not having a proper character voice though- I personally am a terrible voice actor and will usually only say one or two lines in the voice I imagine my characters to be in any given session- more than that and I start losing my voice. It's also a hard thing to remember to do when you're not used to it, so don't worry too much about it!
For acting, I wouldn't play it up anymore than your fellow players are for their characters. You don't want to be an annoyance and slow the session down with getting into superfine detail of what shenanigans your character is doing at every moment. That being said, there's nothing wrong with some visual descriptive role play. In a tense combat, if I score a critical hit, I might swing a sword around as I describe how I chop off the head of the enemy and blood splatters everywhere (or something to that effect; my skald gets his armor cleaned quite often for various reasons.)
Just be careful to not hit your neighbors accidentally when you show everyone how awesome that cleave was though :)