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DM question: how much do you incorporate PC backgrounds into the campaign?
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<blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 7943845" data-attributes="member: 6785785"><p>This one I'll give you, because that player has a challenge before them, and they've acquired an unfair advantage to defeat that challenge. In this case, sure, I'd agree that this is a form of cheating, and I wouldn't advocate for it.</p><p></p><p>But this kind of example wasn't really what we were discussing.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Okay.....how does a DM not contrive drama for the players? Do your characters all remain on the farm and you play out their weekly trips to market? </p><p></p><p>You act as if coincidence is bad......but it'd all be coincidence, wouldn't it? Oh, you guys showed up in a new town.....there just so happens to be a bandit problem here! Oh, you went on to the next town.....my, my there are some ruins nearby where strange things are happening....imagine that!</p><p></p><p>You're making up stuff for the players to engage with. It's all made up.....it is not a real world.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Right! Here you yourself explain that role-playing is a tool. It is the means used and the goal is to understand someone else. Understanding is the goal of therapy, not inhabiting a role.</p><p></p><p>The point of playing a game.....any game....is entertainment. For a RPG, adopting a role is one of the ways that you achieve that goal.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And here's where your bias shows. Even if you don't agree that they are role-playing, they are still players in a game....your insistence to refer to them as "players" is a bit much, no? </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Words can also have multiple meanings. You've shared what you think role-playing is. You've brought up out of hobby uses, and none of those have actually fit your description, so I don't know why you introduced them to the topic.</p><p></p><p>Obviously, people have disagreed with your insistence that your definition is correct. People has asked you to cite where you get this definition. You have not done so.</p><p></p><p>So at this point, I think that it is on you to explain why we should all accept your rather specific definition of role-playing. </p><p></p><p>And that's one more little veiled insult....."weasel". This is a third time I'm going to ask you to please be respectful.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That may be <em>a point </em>to roleplaying, but that doesn't make it <em>the point. </em>Perhaps I role-play to spend some time with my friends and have fun. That's the point of it all, to me.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Hey, I'm glad that your immersive approach to roleplaying works for you. Keep on doing it. Just stop telling others who don't adhere to that approach that they're cheaters, or weasels, or that they don't know what "true roleplaying is" and so on. Because all of that is really pure nonsense.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hawkeyefan, post: 7943845, member: 6785785"] This one I'll give you, because that player has a challenge before them, and they've acquired an unfair advantage to defeat that challenge. In this case, sure, I'd agree that this is a form of cheating, and I wouldn't advocate for it. But this kind of example wasn't really what we were discussing. Okay.....how does a DM not contrive drama for the players? Do your characters all remain on the farm and you play out their weekly trips to market? You act as if coincidence is bad......but it'd all be coincidence, wouldn't it? Oh, you guys showed up in a new town.....there just so happens to be a bandit problem here! Oh, you went on to the next town.....my, my there are some ruins nearby where strange things are happening....imagine that! You're making up stuff for the players to engage with. It's all made up.....it is not a real world. Right! Here you yourself explain that role-playing is a tool. It is the means used and the goal is to understand someone else. Understanding is the goal of therapy, not inhabiting a role. The point of playing a game.....any game....is entertainment. For a RPG, adopting a role is one of the ways that you achieve that goal. And here's where your bias shows. Even if you don't agree that they are role-playing, they are still players in a game....your insistence to refer to them as "players" is a bit much, no? Words can also have multiple meanings. You've shared what you think role-playing is. You've brought up out of hobby uses, and none of those have actually fit your description, so I don't know why you introduced them to the topic. Obviously, people have disagreed with your insistence that your definition is correct. People has asked you to cite where you get this definition. You have not done so. So at this point, I think that it is on you to explain why we should all accept your rather specific definition of role-playing. And that's one more little veiled insult....."weasel". This is a third time I'm going to ask you to please be respectful. That may be [I]a point [/I]to roleplaying, but that doesn't make it [I]the point. [/I]Perhaps I role-play to spend some time with my friends and have fun. That's the point of it all, to me. Hey, I'm glad that your immersive approach to roleplaying works for you. Keep on doing it. Just stop telling others who don't adhere to that approach that they're cheaters, or weasels, or that they don't know what "true roleplaying is" and so on. Because all of that is really pure nonsense. [/QUOTE]
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