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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 6978762" data-attributes="member: 29398">Anything goes around here.As DM, if the party want to spend all session pranking each other or whatever...even killing each other, if it comes to that...I'm cool with it; I can sit back and have a beer. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  The only rule is that it stays in character: Eldrahon arguing with Tamarrik is fine, John arguing with Cindy is not.  And while the party's busy arguing the opponents are busy doing whatever they're doing that the party was supposed to be preventing...Long-term experience tells me that in any party there's always going to be a run - usually early on - where they want to do each other in, after which it (mostly) settles down.As player, any game where I was forced to play altruistic or heroic characters all the time would lose me pretty fast, as would this:As the player who invented the alignment "Neutral Greedy" for a character of mine many years ago, I have to oppose this on principle. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Even the most idealistic-seeming character can have selfish motivations.  One I've been running for quite some time now is a LN Wizard-type from a Roman-based society.  She's got herself caught up in an overarching save-the-world plot line, into which she's (to all appearances) idealistically jumped with both feet.  Why?  Because there's not much point in getting on to the Senate and ultimately becoming Empress (her personal long-term goal) if there's nothing left to rule...Think about it: in the game world the quickest - if riskiest - path to riches and fame is adventuring, and people would know this; making "I'm here to get rich" the most obvious motivation there is. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Besides, in original 1e one's motivations for adventuring were almost always personal and-or selfish in one respect: in the end you were out to amass enough resources to be able to fulfill your duties at name level - build your castle, set up your temple, start your guild, set up your research lab, whatever - depending on class.Lan-"this has to be the oldest thread I've seen around here this decade"-efan</blockquote>

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