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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Saeviomagy" data-source="post: 1491620" data-attributes="member: 5890">So what you're saying is "the rules to the game don't matter at all, because we avoid using them"And what about those extremely long combats where you could not contribute?Roleplaying has nothing to do with rules. It happens in every game system, regardless of how awful the system is.Stop bringing it up - the same roleplaying which is possible in rifts is possible in white wolf, D20, or even the <a href="http://www.criticalmiss.com/issue1/bribe.html" target="_blank">bribe</a> system.If my character is totally hopeless and unable to contribute to anything the party does - I can still roleplay. Even if every time I say "I do X", someone else says "No - my character will do it. I'm much better at X than your character", I could still roleplay.Hell - even if the GM gives my character absolutely no spotlight time, I can still roleplay.But I don't want to. I want to take part in the story. Otherwise I might as well go home and sit in the corner roleplaying on my lonesome.Balance, either GM-enforced or systemic, lets me take part.And if the GM doesn't have to constantly think about how in hells name he's going to balance his game, he has a lot more time left over for actually running it.</blockquote>