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<blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 4960672" data-attributes="member: 5143"><p>Well, we played for nearly an hour just to do the spoilered parts. I paraphrased, but it took him an hour to describe me sneaking down to the camp.</p><p></p><p>When he described the people bathing in the waterfall, my first thought was "I'm an assassin. I could probably take them out before they called for help. Then we'd have less guards to deal with and I could lure some people out of the camp as they came to look for the missing people and pick them off too."</p><p></p><p>I opened my mouth shortly after he finished the description of the pool and the waterfall to say that. But he continued the description of my going down to the camp, having a flashback, the sun dropping below the horizon, and warning us that time was passing as we thought up what to do before I could even interrupt him to say "If there are people in the pool before we even get to the camp, I take them out."</p><p></p><p>He didn't stop talking. And I've been trained by previous DMs NOT to interrupt the DM while speaking. When a DM is ready for your input he'll stop talking. So, I waited. He described my character as being disgusted by the slavers and angry at them and wanting to get revenge on the guy who killed me. All without asking me whether my character actually was disgusted or whether I wanted revenge.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I just feel that roleplaying requires...you know, actually PLAYING your role. If I don't get to make choices, I'm not roleplaying. I'm just listening to a story about my character.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Majoru Oakheart, post: 4960672, member: 5143"] Well, we played for nearly an hour just to do the spoilered parts. I paraphrased, but it took him an hour to describe me sneaking down to the camp. When he described the people bathing in the waterfall, my first thought was "I'm an assassin. I could probably take them out before they called for help. Then we'd have less guards to deal with and I could lure some people out of the camp as they came to look for the missing people and pick them off too." I opened my mouth shortly after he finished the description of the pool and the waterfall to say that. But he continued the description of my going down to the camp, having a flashback, the sun dropping below the horizon, and warning us that time was passing as we thought up what to do before I could even interrupt him to say "If there are people in the pool before we even get to the camp, I take them out." He didn't stop talking. And I've been trained by previous DMs NOT to interrupt the DM while speaking. When a DM is ready for your input he'll stop talking. So, I waited. He described my character as being disgusted by the slavers and angry at them and wanting to get revenge on the guy who killed me. All without asking me whether my character actually was disgusted or whether I wanted revenge. I just feel that roleplaying requires...you know, actually PLAYING your role. If I don't get to make choices, I'm not roleplaying. I'm just listening to a story about my character. [/QUOTE]
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