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I'll make an arguement that character death can be less disruptive in many ways than playing a character sufficiently out of character...

Though this gets confusing in some games because some skills are used for task-based resolution, which can look a lot like damage...

That tends to be true outside of class systems as far as combat (though you have odd cases like the Hero System, but that's as much a...

In classless, skill based systems, some character concepts have large skill overlap (police detective, sleazy paparazzi photographer and...

I'm just saying that it seems odd to be bothered by some characters being driven by money for its own sake, when there are very...

Yep. There are reasons I never played Paladins in editions where Paladins could Fall. I don't mind having to walk a line-- but I object...

I generally agree with this, but I do have to note its possible for someone to find themselves in a situation where to play their...

"It's what my character would do" is, in fact, entirely sufficient justification for any reasonably in-character action you assign to...

That's largely because the majority of jobs the majority of humans do (at least in the modern world) have no intrinsic fulfillment for...

Most of my action declarations are because that's what the character would do. Like, that's playing a role, right? But then, most of...

I'm just saying the fact something does not feel rewarding to you says nothing about it not being rewarding to a character. The former...

Oh, there's elements of it. But, to be self-insert, the character still has to be recognizable as the author.

So by that light is not Aragorn Tolkien's Mary-Sue? He's certainly more perfect than Conan. Or maybe Beren, whose name Tolkien had put...

Well, you can have a "thief" or a "warrior" in those systems too; its just its then become a description of the particular skills each...

Conan isn't Howard. It seems pretty straightforward. He doesn't look like Howard or talk like Howard, he doesn't have Howard's name or...