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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DanteHayes" data-source="post: 900610" data-attributes="member: 8880">I have been active in that thread because, it's an issue that I feel somewhat strongly about.I've just been in too many games where one person would use "role-playing" as a vehicle to cop out of helping the party as a whole or any individual within it achieve any goals. I wouldn't tolerate a friend who motivations were so counter-intuitive to my own, I don't know why so many people find the D & D world to be one where that would be acceptable behavior.As for how we deal with that during character creation; we always have the players submit three character concepts which include class, race, alignment, of course. Also, a brief background on their proposed history and, an idea as to what that characters goals might be. Then, the DM, after recieving three concepts from each player, decides which ones to use.That way, we always have a balance party in terms of classes, motivations and our ethical/moral compasses all generally point the same direction. Although, there are sometimes still inner-party conflicts, they are never very serious.I would advocate this system to anyone who was looking for an answer to this dilemna.Dante</blockquote>