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<blockquote data-quote="F4NBOY" data-source="post: 3782194" data-attributes="member: 54553">You are correct.The game is the rules, the mechanics, everything &quot;gamist&quot;(i hate this term)about it. RP for me is just a &quot;spice&quot; you put in it to appease your taste while playing the game. It's like invinting your friend to eat pasta at your place. Each one puts the amount of sauce he sees fit, and the kind of sauce he likes most. You can put a lot, or a just a little and sometimes it's good to eat it without sauce at all.If you serve the pasta with an amount of sauce already on it, some people will like it, but some won't. You can't force them to like it, you can't prove them that's the right way to enjoy pasta, and if you say that's how it's gonna be from now on, you will lose some companions for dinner or you will force some people to eat it but not enjoy it properly.Of course RP is part a part of the game, but IMO it's a product, a consequence of the game. The immersion in the story and in the character is not what helps and leads me to reach a desired state of the game or a &quot;perfect&quot; RPG experience. The desired state that I enjoy and want to reach is exactly that immersion in the story and character. It's a natural by-product of the game, the rules, the checks, rolls, mechanics. It's not a &quot;requirement&quot; of the game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="F4NBOY, post: 3782194, member: 54553"] You are correct. The game is the rules, the mechanics, everything "gamist"(i hate this term)about it. RP for me is just a "spice" you put in it to appease your taste while playing the game. It's like invinting your friend to eat pasta at your place. Each one puts the amount of sauce he sees fit, and the kind of sauce he likes most. You can put a lot, or a just a little and sometimes it's good to eat it without sauce at all. If you serve the pasta with an amount of sauce already on it, some people will like it, but some won't. You can't force them to like it, you can't prove them that's the right way to enjoy pasta, and if you say that's how it's gonna be from now on, you will lose some companions for dinner or you will force some people to eat it but not enjoy it properly. Of course RP is part a part of the game, but IMO it's a product, a consequence of the game. The immersion in the story and in the character is not what helps and leads me to reach a desired state of the game or a "perfect" RPG experience. The desired state that I enjoy and want to reach is exactly that immersion in the story and character. It's a natural by-product of the game, the rules, the checks, rolls, mechanics. It's not a "requirement" of the game. [/QUOTE]

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