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For me, the most frequent use case can be summed up as "player knowledge is not character knowledge." I, as the player, may be able to...

I've got an associated player who is notoriously risk-averse. She isn't averse to getting work done, but she's always vaguely resentful...

If I had a fellow player and their character stole from me and justified it by "That's what my character would do" then I would feel...

We had a player who did the whole "I'm going to be an antisocial jerk because my favorite anime character is one." But what works for a...

I think there may be times when there's a differences between wanting to play a character who's a coward, likely because they want some...

I've got to admit ... I don't understand people who play characters that are cowards, especially when it's to the detriment of the other...

I think you've greatly misunderstood this article, which is absolutely arguing in defense of D&D (and tabletop gaming and fantasy as a...

Typically when I would use the phrase "it's what my character would do" it's because I'm about to do something that as a player I know...

For me, what my character would do is only half of the question. The other half is, what will make the people I'm playing with enjoy...

I use it when I decide that the character does something that I, the player, know to be non-optimal or unwise, but that suits the...

I run a pretty player-driven campaign but there are limits. I once told a player that their bringing in a character that didn't want to...

There's a world of difference between RPing your character's traits to the point of irritating your fellow players and RPing your...

I did this when I was younger and didn't know any better. Made characters that resisted going along with the plot. One example was a...

Do you make the same comment on every other thread on this forum that links to an external site as the source article?

Actually, it doesn't quite line up that way. I assume that our distributors (we sourced them from multiple places as the supplies...