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<blockquote data-quote="Big J Money" data-source="post: 6809274" data-attributes="member: 70533">Actually, my statement is that role-playing is a unique medium, and that players take on the role of actors and authors equally and simultaneously.Who creates the character?&nbsp; The player does.&nbsp; Who determines what course of action the character does?&nbsp; The player does.&nbsp; Actors in plays, movies and TVs are not required to define any action, they read a script written by (often entirely) another author.&nbsp; That's why I can't agree that players in RPGs are &quot;only&quot; actors.&nbsp; If the players aren't the co-authors of the story that's being told at the table (including the character dialogue), then who is?Your assumption is that players have to be one or the other.&nbsp; My assumption is that practically speaking they have never been only one or the other.&nbsp; For a player to be 100% actor, you'd require multiple players playing each character.&nbsp; One player would determine what the PC does, and write the script.&nbsp; This would be the character author.&nbsp; The second player would act out the script.&nbsp; This would be the character actor.&nbsp; Obviously this would be an entirely different way of roleplaying than what we've been doing for years.There's no debate about whether players are authors; they always have been.&nbsp; I guess the debate is exactly how they approach the authoring and how it affects the acting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Big J Money, post: 6809274, member: 70533"] Actually, my statement is that role-playing is a unique medium, and that players take on the role of actors and authors equally and simultaneously. Who creates the character? The player does. Who determines what course of action the character does? The player does. Actors in plays, movies and TVs are not required to define any action, they read a script written by (often entirely) another author. That's why I can't agree that players in RPGs are "only" actors. If the players aren't the co-authors of the story that's being told at the table (including the character dialogue), then who is? Your assumption is that players have to be one or the other. My assumption is that practically speaking they have never been only one or the other. For a player to be 100% actor, you'd require multiple players playing each character. One player would determine what the PC does, and write the script. This would be the character author. The second player would act out the script. This would be the character actor. Obviously this would be an entirely different way of roleplaying than what we've been doing for years. There's no debate about whether players are authors; they always have been. I guess the debate is exactly how they approach the authoring and how it affects the acting. [/QUOTE]

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