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<blockquote data-quote="Incenjucar" data-source="post: 1798848" data-attributes="member: 6182"><p>Doesn't mean that they're competing, or should be. When I play an RPG, at worse, I'm competing to be the best roleplayer (if only because I love playing bards, and bards are an excuse to talk more than anyone else, so I can RP more)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No, that would be one of the play style options. I do RPGs for the RP first, the slaughtering second. Heck, I've been doing that free trial on EQ lately, and will let my character take damage so I have a chance to type something IC while I fight. Almost gets me killed on occassion, heh. I also used to freeform, which pretty much -is- improv, but rules let me avoid the situations I ended up in with powergamers trying to one-up each other.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Or the ref. When I DM, I'm the ref, not the foe. I'm just in it for the story.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The DM gives you something to do. If you were trying to -defeat-'em, he'd throw the terrasque at your 1st level characters.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Also known as "cooperating" with them.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That would be cooperation again. Not competition.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes. This is called an 'option'. My last PC was more than happy to pretend that he respected the power of the other people in the party. He didn't need to compete with them, because that would just cause party conflict which wouldn't help him achieve his ends.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>What, you never save the princess with the sole intention of saving the princess?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sounds repetative.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yep. Unless they have the ranks for it, heh.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The two are unrelated. Some -characters- may well have a strong RP excuse to hyper-specialize. Some -characters- have an equal reason to go JOAT. I, for instance, am a JOAT IRL. I know science, math, literature, history, languages, psychology, philosophy, a bit of mechanics and computers, and, heck I ride horses and hunt things too. I'd never specialize. My role in life is as the person who can bring up obscure information in a myriad of topics. Works for PCs too.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Stereotyping hardly helps anyone.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Then why the bloody are you even saying this?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Incenjucar, post: 1798848, member: 6182"] Doesn't mean that they're competing, or should be. When I play an RPG, at worse, I'm competing to be the best roleplayer (if only because I love playing bards, and bards are an excuse to talk more than anyone else, so I can RP more) No, that would be one of the play style options. I do RPGs for the RP first, the slaughtering second. Heck, I've been doing that free trial on EQ lately, and will let my character take damage so I have a chance to type something IC while I fight. Almost gets me killed on occassion, heh. I also used to freeform, which pretty much -is- improv, but rules let me avoid the situations I ended up in with powergamers trying to one-up each other. Or the ref. When I DM, I'm the ref, not the foe. I'm just in it for the story. The DM gives you something to do. If you were trying to -defeat-'em, he'd throw the terrasque at your 1st level characters. Also known as "cooperating" with them. That would be cooperation again. Not competition. Yes. This is called an 'option'. My last PC was more than happy to pretend that he respected the power of the other people in the party. He didn't need to compete with them, because that would just cause party conflict which wouldn't help him achieve his ends. What, you never save the princess with the sole intention of saving the princess? Sounds repetative. Yep. Unless they have the ranks for it, heh. The two are unrelated. Some -characters- may well have a strong RP excuse to hyper-specialize. Some -characters- have an equal reason to go JOAT. I, for instance, am a JOAT IRL. I know science, math, literature, history, languages, psychology, philosophy, a bit of mechanics and computers, and, heck I ride horses and hunt things too. I'd never specialize. My role in life is as the person who can bring up obscure information in a myriad of topics. Works for PCs too. Stereotyping hardly helps anyone. Then why the bloody are you even saying this? [/QUOTE]
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