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<blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 5308645" data-attributes="member: 92305">For me, the game is not about playing a superior build.&nbsp; Not at all.&nbsp; That is for computer games.&nbsp;D&amp;D is about playing characters.&nbsp; Characters have flaws.&nbsp; Characters are not perfect.&nbsp; Characters have strange, but intriguing interests.&nbsp;Most of all, characters are INTERESTING.&nbsp;They're what the game is all about.&nbsp;I'm much more interested in following the exploits of a boy human fighter, with STR 11, who loves to play the harp and sing, than I do a sterotypical taciturn dwarf that is maxed out both Feat-wise and Stat-wise for fighting goblins.&nbsp;Think of the role playing situations of that boy, who has trouble wearing armor and lifting weapons, trying to be a fighter, but loving to stop along the side of the road and strum a few verses before he breaks camp rather than the grumpy old dwarf, who we've all seen 1000 times, that is super-human (super-dwarf!) and killin' wads and wads of enemies.&nbsp;Yeah, I'd much rather have the interesting character in my game than the killing machine.&nbsp;This isn't a video game we play.&nbsp; It's a world we escape to.&nbsp; There is no &quot;right&quot; and &quot;wrong&quot; way to play it, but, for me, the way to play it is to escape to the place and actually live there while you're gaming--rather than having an experience that you can have playing WoW.&nbsp;That's the one thing that table top gaming has that computer gaming doesn't.&nbsp; &nbsp;Almost total immersion.&nbsp;My advice to you:&nbsp; Keep playing your characters.&nbsp; Be a roleplayer.&nbsp; Not a rollplayer.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Water Bob, post: 5308645, member: 92305"] For me, the game is not about playing a superior build. Not at all. That is for computer games. D&D is about playing [I]characters[/I]. Characters have flaws. Characters are not perfect. Characters have strange, but intriguing interests. Most of all, characters are INTERESTING. They're what the game is all about. I'm much more interested in following the exploits of a boy human fighter, with STR 11, who loves to play the harp and sing, than I do a sterotypical taciturn dwarf that is maxed out both Feat-wise and Stat-wise for fighting goblins. Think of the role playing situations of that boy, who has trouble wearing armor and lifting weapons, trying to be a fighter, but loving to stop along the side of the road and strum a few verses before he breaks camp rather than the grumpy old dwarf, who we've all seen 1000 times, that is super-human (super-dwarf!) and killin' wads and wads of enemies. Yeah, I'd much rather have the interesting character in my game than the killing machine. This isn't a video game we play. It's a world we escape to. There is no "right" and "wrong" way to play it, but, for me, the way to play it is to escape to the place and actually live there while you're gaming--rather than having an experience that you can have playing WoW. That's the one thing that table top gaming has that computer gaming doesn't. Almost total immersion. My advice to you: Keep playing your characters. Be a roleplayer. Not a rollplayer. [/QUOTE]

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