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It's pretty hard to tell the difference 99% of the time. Narrating your choices as being grounded in character concept and backstory is...

You need to have characters with beliefs, values, temperament etc and situations that challenge those. Which can happen in any RPG, but...

I would not GM to a player I would not trust to play their character properly and I would not play with a GM who did not trust me to...

It happens very rarely in games that I run, and is incredibly rare for me, but I have been known to do it. Sometimes the options are so...

As I've said elsewhere in this thread (you really need to learn to read 1,500+ posts most carefully, and remember who said what, ok?) I...

Yeah...no. Nobody knows what a PC "would do" as well as the player.

But certainly better than other people at the table.

Oh, well, if we are talking XP I'll sell my agency without batting an eye. I take back everything I've said. (This was my plan all...

A PC sat down to negotiate with an NPC in Sigil. The NPC attempted to read the PCs mind and find some specific tidbit of information...

What business is it of yours or WotC's if that table over there in Wyoming is playing the game and making choices based on player...

I can't speak for @hawkeyefan, of course, but since we seem to be fairly aligned in our preferences, I would say for me the impact of...

Yes, really. And largely for the exact reason you site… it’s used as an example because everyone’s familiar with it rather than because...

Because most of the time, I don’t feel the events of play the way my character does. Certainly not to the extent or depth that they do...

Sure. I mean… a lot of the conflict in this discussion seems to come from trying to do this in D&D… which is ill-suited for it and isn’t...

You can play people that are different from you. But most interesting differences are not about capability, they are about temperament...