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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwoSix" data-source="post: 6203137" data-attributes="member: 205">Well, like I mentioned in a thread last week, there's a lot of goals when you roleplay, and my desire to fulfill any one of them is not infinite compared to the other priorities.  I'm happy to be a responsible gamer who takes initiative in creating stories and opportunities for the DM to challenge us.  Driving the story is great fun.  But that doesn't mean I don't ALSO enjoy building a competent, capable character.  In an ideal world, I can play my character as optimally as possible without worrying that I have to restrain myself to respect the story.  For example, my character in my Dresden Files game could pretty reliably generate fire blasts that inflicted 7 stress, which is enough to severely injure any enemy that isn't way out of my league, power-wise.  But I can only do that maybe twice before the mental stress I generate gives me serious consequences.  And anything more than a mild consequence doesn't get resolved until at least a session has passed.</blockquote>