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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8160143" data-attributes="member: 29398">I disagree, for several reasons.First, you don't have equal agency across all tables to "play act" what you want how you want.  Look no further than the recent thread re playing characters not of one's own gender; or any thread regarding allowance of evil characters; or anywhere someone denigrates doing something "because it's what the character would do" even though following the character wherever it leads you is the purest form of RP.These kind of arbitrary limitations IMO hammer player agency far harder than most of what's been discussed in here.Second, to blanket-declare that role-play isn't required by the game and-or isn't necessary to the game is in error; in that some systems (e.g. 1e D&D and some LARPs) actively reward "good roleplaying" (in 1e this is done via added XP, and faster/cheaper training at level-up).Third, to say that role-playing isn't necessary in a role-playing game is...well, let's just say it's a bit much. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />That said, in the grand scheme of how various systems are written and intended this type of agency is probably more or less a wash, yes.  But that it's a wash is no reason to discount RP-agency from consideration here; if for no other reason than not every table plays their system as written or intended and some tables/GMs in fact do deny RP agency on a regular basis.</blockquote>

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