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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5610904" data-attributes="member: 19675">My initial phase of gaming- 1977-1982- was driven by my love of genre fiction, but most of my early PCs were warriors of some kind.  I wanted to play combat guys, and the RP, while there, was not very nuanced.  Even in Traveller, I mostly played PCs with Space Marine backgrounds.With the release of Champions, I got to stretch a bit more, since I was a comic book junkie.  Exploring superheroic PCs whetted my appetite for FRPG PCs who used magic.  From that point on, most of my FRPG characters had access to some kind of spellcasting or similar powers.  But while i was a pretty good RPer, I was still focused mainly in the combats.  That lasted until 1990.In 1990, I went to Law School, and happened to find a game group that played HERO (as Champions was now called) and D&D, but also a host of other games, including a smattering of playtesting.  We played so many different systems that I began to focus less on combat and more on RP...and PC design to support the RP.  Why?  Well, it takes time to master all those different combat systems, but RP is internal and mechanicless.  All you need to do is analyze the PC in depth.And that has been my style since then: I play PCs I find interesting.  While I still love the combats, I get as much- if not more- joy from PC design and RP.  And by PC design, I don't mean mechanical optimization (though that may occur), but rather, using the mechanics as best I can to make the PC as much like the ideal version of him/her/it floating around in my head.</blockquote>

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