Recent content by newrange

This is exactly my point. Saying that my character "wouldn't" secretly pocket unclaimed items would be completely denying everything that makes him who he is as a character. It doesn't matter what the other actors think; my character is a thief, and their characters have no idea that he is...

If everybody wants to play a nice, pleasant game where the characters all help each other out, The DM should just require his/her players to roll either lawful good, chaotic good, or neutral good characters. If a DM allows pure neutrality, chaotic neutrality, or any variation of evil, he/she...

It's a game in which people roleplay characters. JUST like actors, the players must thoroughly portray their own characters. If people truly feel that upset about good roleplaying, they probably shouldn't be playing a roleplaying game.

This guy gets it. :) Everyone else is basically saying, "Roleplay... but not really."

That's the problem. Nobody should ever make assumptions in a game with so many different playstyles. The group didn't openly declare that we were going to equally split any found loot - not even the players. If they had put any forethought into loot distribution in the first place, they would...

I can't bring myself to classify my actions as "stealing loot from the party," since nobody in the party took the time to check the contents of any of the containers. In my eyes, the loot was completely up for grabs, since none of the other characters had even bothered to check out what the...

Playing a rogue today on Roll20, I didn't pickpocket a PC; however, I did something equally questionable. All of the other PCs left my character - a known thief - alone in a room full of as-of-yet unidentified and unclaimed loot. I simply whispered to the GM that I was searching containers for...