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<blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1383975" data-attributes="member: 812">&quot;Hardcore&quot;?In character &quot;All the time&quot;?No. All of my players ask for someone to pass the chips, or excuse themselves to go to the bathroom, or make Buffy-related in-jokes, during any session.To me, being a great roleplayer is less about funny voices and unshakeable personality displays and more about allowing a character to be a PERSON -- somebody with flaws who can grow and make mistakes and change over the course of the campaign. Not just become tougher, faster, better. I really like DMing players who let their characters fail, who look for opportunities for their characters to have emotional reactions to events around them.Not necessarily in terms of histrionic displays of amateur acting. It doesn't have to be &quot;first-person&quot; or &quot;in character&quot; -- there just has to be something to the character other than the stats on the page. Just because for me, those kinds of stories are more interesting.There's lots of ways of having fun, though, and telling one kind of story is just one way to do that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="barsoomcore, post: 1383975, member: 812"] "Hardcore"? In character "All the time"? No. All of my players ask for someone to pass the chips, or excuse themselves to go to the bathroom, or make Buffy-related in-jokes, during any session. To me, being a great roleplayer is less about funny voices and unshakeable personality displays and more about allowing a character to be a PERSON -- somebody with flaws who can grow and make mistakes and change over the course of the campaign. Not just become tougher, faster, better. I really like DMing players who let their characters fail, who look for opportunities for their characters to have emotional reactions to events around them. Not necessarily in terms of histrionic displays of amateur acting. It doesn't have to be "first-person" or "in character" -- there just has to be something to the character other than the stats on the page. Just because for me, those kinds of stories are more interesting. There's lots of ways of having fun, though, and telling one kind of story is just one way to do that. [/QUOTE]

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