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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ptolemy18" data-source="post: 3808876" data-attributes="member: 24970">Well, sure, it's not possible to "really" put yourself in the mindset of an INT 6 Barbarian. It's not possible for the DM to put himself/herself in the mindset of a Green Dragon or a Lich or a Hobgoblin either. Or for a fantasy writer to do it either, so obviously all fantasy movies, novels and stories must be unnecessary and pointless.The point is to attempt it, because it's a ROLE-playing game. It's fun to solve a challenging puzzle, and it's fun to get in tactical fights, but I basically play RPGs to lose myself in the experience of character acting (with dice and craziness added). If that character is an INT 4 moron, then I can have fun playing an INT 4 moron. If that character is a WIS 4 fool, I can play a WIS 4 fool. Alternately, I can give it my best shot at playing  someone with an 18 WIS or 18 INT, although this may be a little harder. I don't play RPGs to win or lose (well, of course I *do* want to win, but... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ); I play them to experience far-out stuff and to do interesting things with my characters in a group of people.(Oh yeah, and gain XP and magic items.) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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