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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pbartender" data-source="post: 5358359" data-attributes="member: 7533">You may be a bit facetious, here, but...  No.Everybody comes to the table for different things...  Some like puzzle-solving, some enjoy smashing heads in tactical combat, others enjoy collecting loot, still others revel in the minutiae of complex rules, and some like amateur acting in front of a small audience.To each his own... it's not my job as the DM to tell a player what they should or should not enjoy about the game.  And it's certainly not my job to penalize a player (by way of rewarding all the other players but him) for not enjoying any particular aspect.That said, there are plenty of ways to roleplay a character without necessarily breaking out the first person faux-medieval accents...Start with encouraging simple, basic, stereotypical motivations and personality traits.  Remember, at it's most basic, roleplaying is making decisions based on what your character would do, instead of what you would do.  Read through the section on <a href="http://www.crackmonkey.org/~nick/loyhargil/fate3/fate3.html#id9" target="_blank">Aspects</a> from the Spirit of the Century rules.  Ignoring the mechanics behind them for a moment, they are a great way for players to come up with some simple guidelines for how they should be roleplaying their characters, without having to write a three-page backstory.Encourage stereotypical portrayals...  It's the easiest sort of role to fall into, and often the least embarrassing since they're meant to be almost humorously over-the-top.  Finally, as a DM, I find it personally helpful to have an actor or actress or perhaps a character from a movie in mind whenever I really what to make an NPC memorable.  It gives me a good visualization of how the character would be acting, gives me a basis for the voice I might use should I decide to, and works great as part of the description for the players...  A recent necromancer was described as, "An especially gaunt and hunched-over Peter Lorre wearing a pristine white laboratory smock and heavy black leather gloves that go all the way up to his elbows."  And I once describe a gypsy fortune teller with, "Imagine Ernest Borgnine as a woman."Anyway, my original point was that if you reward RP with mechanical rewards, you'll end up with a power disparity.  Rewarding RP with in-game RP rewards, enhances the RP you are rewarding and makes for better encouragement by providing something that rules don't otherwise cover.</blockquote>

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