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<blockquote data-quote="ivocaliban" data-source="post: 3771964" data-attributes="member: 17596"><p>My first response to this thread was "What's wrong with acting?" For me (as a DM) many of the best moments in my games occured when everyone at the table was "in character." Then I realized what you were aiming at here. It isn't acting...it's overacting. It's that sort of overacting that borders on insanity. You know...like LARPing...only without the funny clothes. (I kid.)</p><p></p><p>Seriously, though. I remembering roleplaying in a <em>Vampire: The Masquerade</em> game back when I was in college. There were four or five of us involved, but one of the gamers took things just a little too seriously and too far. He was playing a female Malkavian (for those of you who don't know that's a crazy vampire) who had been embraced during adolescence (these facts alone should have been enough to tell us what we were in for) and spent an entire scene perched on a barstool. At one point, he eventually leapt from the stool at another player (all "in-character," of course)...and that was pretty much the end of that game. And the end of that gaming group, I might also add.</p><p></p><p>So, yes. Call it "method overacting" if you will, but I have known people who refuse to divorce themselves from their characters once the game has started. Whether they're leaping from the furniture while bearing their fangs or just refusing to acknowledge the existence of coca-cola in the Hyborian Age, this is intolerable. But I agree with GreatLemur in that the phrase "thespian acting" is both redundant and (possibly) inaccurate for what you're trying to get across.</p><p></p><p>Either way, trust me...it could be worse. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ivocaliban, post: 3771964, member: 17596"] My first response to this thread was "What's wrong with acting?" For me (as a DM) many of the best moments in my games occured when everyone at the table was "in character." Then I realized what you were aiming at here. It isn't acting...it's overacting. It's that sort of overacting that borders on insanity. You know...like LARPing...only without the funny clothes. (I kid.) Seriously, though. I remembering roleplaying in a [I]Vampire: The Masquerade[/I] game back when I was in college. There were four or five of us involved, but one of the gamers took things just a little too seriously and too far. He was playing a female Malkavian (for those of you who don't know that's a crazy vampire) who had been embraced during adolescence (these facts alone should have been enough to tell us what we were in for) and spent an entire scene perched on a barstool. At one point, he eventually leapt from the stool at another player (all "in-character," of course)...and that was pretty much the end of that game. And the end of that gaming group, I might also add. So, yes. Call it "method overacting" if you will, but I have known people who refuse to divorce themselves from their characters once the game has started. Whether they're leaping from the furniture while bearing their fangs or just refusing to acknowledge the existence of coca-cola in the Hyborian Age, this is intolerable. But I agree with GreatLemur in that the phrase "thespian acting" is both redundant and (possibly) inaccurate for what you're trying to get across. Either way, trust me...it could be worse. ;) [/QUOTE]
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