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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9484475" data-attributes="member: 23751">You're conflating in-game with in-fiction.If we can't decide it in real life, a lot of people believe that characters shouldn't be able to decide it in the fiction.&nbsp; For example, I had no ability to choose my gender or what race I was born into.&nbsp; In the fiction my PC has no ability to choose his gender(other than some very specific elves) or race what race he is born into.&nbsp; Your example above of feeling terrified above is the same. If I here in real life encounter something terrifying, I might be terrified, or I might choose to overcome that fear and push forward anyway.&nbsp; In the fiction that is exactly what the PC is doing as well. There is no effective difference between the game fiction and what happens in real life.&nbsp; That there is a player deciding for the PC doesn't change that.&nbsp; It's a game, the player has to decide for the PC, but in the fiction it will 100% be the PCs decision or indecision, depending on what the player decides.In-game =/= in-fiction.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 9484475, member: 23751"] You're conflating in-game with in-fiction. If we can't decide it in real life, a lot of people believe that characters shouldn't be able to decide it in the fiction. For example, I had no ability to choose my gender or what race I was born into. In the fiction my PC has no ability to choose his gender(other than some very specific elves) or race what race he is born into. Your example above of feeling terrified above is the same. If I here in real life encounter something terrifying, I might be terrified, or I might choose to overcome that fear and push forward anyway. In the fiction that is exactly what the PC is doing as well. There is no effective difference between the game fiction and what happens in real life. That there is a player deciding for the PC doesn't change that. It's a game, the player has to decide for the PC, but in the fiction it will 100% be the PCs decision or indecision, depending on what the player decides. In-game =/= in-fiction. [/QUOTE]

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