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<blockquote data-quote="Lyxen" data-source="post: 8482917" data-attributes="member: 7032025"><p>My perspective is that 5e is minimalist in many ways, enabling it to propose a version of D&D which is streamlined in many ways, easy to read, and therefore interesting even to non-geeks, and that has been confirmed by its popularity. These "definitions' of roleplaying, like many parts of the rules are actually very vague and extremely open, and just giving general guidelines about what roleplaying could be when you are a beginner, and it's actually not necessarily an easy concept to grasp, today there are many videos like Critical Role who at least give some views as to what it could be. Moreover, like the rest of the rules, its completely subject to a table and a DM's interpretation. I just think it's a fine thing that D&D actually insists that it's a roleplaying game and that roleplaying permeates every part of the game, including combat.</p><p></p><p>That being said, like almost all the rules in the game, there will be people who try to use simple sentences out of context to try and justify OneTrueWayism (and I've seen people on some forums do exactly that saying that by definition in D&D, roleplaying was only "how your character thinks, acts, and talks"). Like all these attempts, it's actually a rather pathetic attempt at controlling others and "being right", but I don't think that this thread is about this so it's fine.</p><p></p><p>That being said, I would argue that "the players decide what they do" is not really about roleplaying, because it's exactly the same thing in a board game. Even the "how your character thinks, acts, and talks" is not necessarily about roleplaying, especially if it's not consistent from one moment to the next for various reasons. It could be argued that the "playing our a role" is actually the only part of the original post that actually speaks about roleplaying. There are however a few complements in the rules, such as "<u>Drawing on your mental image of your character</u>, you tell everyone what your character does and how he or she does it." or "When you use active roleplaying, you speak with your character's voice, like an actor taking on a role. " But note that these two sentences from from alternative sections about how to roleplay, once more showing the real open nature of the game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lyxen, post: 8482917, member: 7032025"] My perspective is that 5e is minimalist in many ways, enabling it to propose a version of D&D which is streamlined in many ways, easy to read, and therefore interesting even to non-geeks, and that has been confirmed by its popularity. These "definitions' of roleplaying, like many parts of the rules are actually very vague and extremely open, and just giving general guidelines about what roleplaying could be when you are a beginner, and it's actually not necessarily an easy concept to grasp, today there are many videos like Critical Role who at least give some views as to what it could be. Moreover, like the rest of the rules, its completely subject to a table and a DM's interpretation. I just think it's a fine thing that D&D actually insists that it's a roleplaying game and that roleplaying permeates every part of the game, including combat. That being said, like almost all the rules in the game, there will be people who try to use simple sentences out of context to try and justify OneTrueWayism (and I've seen people on some forums do exactly that saying that by definition in D&D, roleplaying was only "how your character thinks, acts, and talks"). Like all these attempts, it's actually a rather pathetic attempt at controlling others and "being right", but I don't think that this thread is about this so it's fine. That being said, I would argue that "the players decide what they do" is not really about roleplaying, because it's exactly the same thing in a board game. Even the "how your character thinks, acts, and talks" is not necessarily about roleplaying, especially if it's not consistent from one moment to the next for various reasons. It could be argued that the "playing our a role" is actually the only part of the original post that actually speaks about roleplaying. There are however a few complements in the rules, such as "[U]Drawing on your mental image of your character[/U], you tell everyone what your character does and how he or she does it." or "When you use active roleplaying, you speak with your character's voice, like an actor taking on a role. " But note that these two sentences from from alternative sections about how to roleplay, once more showing the real open nature of the game. [/QUOTE]
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