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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Shadow" data-source="post: 4095268" data-attributes="member: 16760">Really?  Where's the fun in a group marching in lockstep against the BBEG?  Ethical dilemmas and friendly intraparty squabbling can make for GREAT games.  I can't even imagine letting it spill over into OOC relationships;  why on earth would anyone do that?Good grief, one of the most fun adventures I've ever played is where I colluded with the GM to have my gnomish thief/illusionist play a colossal, elaborate practical joke on the party, involving several high-level councilors to the king, who was visiting our baronetcy.  The whole adventure was the joke;  the BBEG was an illusion.Another hugely fun adventure involved one of the players deciding to have his character actually *give in* to the whisperings of the evil tome in his backpack and betray the group in the clutch.  As characters, to be sure, we wanted his head on a pike!  But as players, we had a blast!  Memorable quote:  "Kill him, save the world... kill him, save the world... I'm THINKING, dammit!"  Why would anyone have hard feelings over such a thing?  It made the game at least twice as interesting, and we still talk about it fondly 15 years later.My best friend and I often establish something our characters *argue* about IC.  And our DM very often creates NPC's to adventure with the party who are bound to get under a certain character's skin.  It's fun!The actual action, while important at the time, is one of the things I remember least from sessions past.  There are campaigns from years ago where I couldn't tell you anything about how the fights went (clever plans to avoid fights, more), but I can tell you all about the cool exchange of words between my character and the villain amidst the fray, or the heartbreak of having to kill an innocent child warped into a monster, or the fun dispute between two characters (in a modern superhero game) about whether magic exists or not - when the guy who denies it is a telepath and the guy who affirms it is a wizard.</blockquote>

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