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Message: <blockquote data-quote="5ekyu" data-source="post: 7359756" data-attributes="member: 6919838">False, within the context of RPGs at least.Role-playing is playing your character, making decisions based on the character's viewpoint and in-game-world elements as opposed to or contrasted with making those decisions based on player knowledge and outside the in-game-world elements.Acting out those decisions IRL that your character is doing is a wholly different thing and is not normally required by role-playing. game mechanics can handle the resolution stages and narration is sufficient for the descriptive elements as the standard assumption for role-playing. But actually "performing" in person IRL is not normally at all a part of the thing called role-playing.Your character can be strong anf flip a table without you doing so to your gaming table - acting.Your character can swing a sword of cast heal spells without you acting those things out.Your character can give a rousing speech to inspire troops and all that assumes without you giving such a rousing speech IRl.and all of those can then be resolved with the specific game's rules.I myself try to always keep character specifics in mind when "tasks" are attempted in game and i do not normally let the player's "performance skills" have any weight at all - although there are edge cases. So, a player giving some rousing speech in his own irl persona is fine... and if it is a cool scene that fosters good outcomes i might give that some meta-game token (like inspiration if that is used) that we use for "oh cool" within the system *or* i might give it some story-based edge that comes into play as a more "personal" reward... not talking temporary hit points or advantage on first rounds or first morale checks or whatever but more like after events the speech is remembered and a degree of fame or renown gets tagged to that character (for better and for ill.) The *player* added flavor and cool and so they get flavor and cool after for it - not *more plusses*. "More plusses" comes from character capabilities and performance... at least for me.But of course that does vary a bit with the rules in play and the system being used. have definitely played games where the aspect of taking "player cool" into "in game action" in a more direct way is more a hard coded thing - swashbuckling or toon for instance.</blockquote>

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