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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 9057342" data-attributes="member: 6801845">So let me get this straightgets the response<img src="https://media3.giphy.com/media/xULW8jvwhvl6BD0ig8/200.gif" alt="Daffy Duck No GIF by Looney Tunes" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Because this is really starting to sound like you just have an issue with me, personally, not what I'm saying.  I've repeatedly explained that I try to approach the game from the perspective, with knowledge of, motivations of my PC. Think about what it would actually be like to be that PC. In other words "...think from 'inside' the character".As Wikipedia would describe method acting, I try to play my character "...identifying with, understanding, and experiencing a character's inner motivation and emotions."  But somehow, that's not good enough for you because you go off into tangents about Meisner and Stanislavsky, somehow getting around to [emphasis added]Which seems to mean that I would have to think of the first time I fought a troll which is of course impossible.  I seriously doubt that Heath Ledger thought back to when he became a sociopathic anarchist mass murderer in order to play the Joker. Yet he was still considered a method actor. If you're insisting that I think back to the time that as a player I played a PC that fought a troll ... that isn't relevant at all.  Even if I did remember, they were completely different PCs coming from completely different mindsetsIf you're defining method acting as thinking about some situation I tried something and it didn't work for reasons I didn't understand?  That's something I can do.  I also take into consideration the personality of the PC when I do that.  We're playing Curse of Strahd where we were invited to dinner.  So I imagined what my PC would feel based on situations where I've been in a position where someone else had all the power and was potentially a threat to some goal of mine (in D&D, of course, the stakes are a bit higher).  Then I try to put myself in their frame of thought.  How my PC would respond to that emotion and context to role play accordingly.If that isn't similar to the approach used by method actors, I don't know what else would qualify.  No, I don't care about Stanislavsky or Meisner.  As you said above, the definition of method acting is too vague and [edit to add: most] people don't care or know about specific subtypes of method acting.Last, but not least, I never said I was a consummate method actor when I role play.  I just attempt to use some of the techniques associated with the style.  That includes occasionally imagining what it would be like if a troll kept coming back from the dead because we didn't burn it with fire.  It has nothing to do with solving the puzzle of why the troll doesn't die, it's about that moment of "Why the f*** didn't that work!" panic or "Huh. Guess it's time to try somethin' else." pragmatism or "Can we just leave now?" fear.  All based on how the PC approaches the world and how they think.  In other words, trying to get into the mind of the character I'm portraying. AKA something like method acting.</blockquote>

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