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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 2206775" data-attributes="member: 158">We have a mix of players in our group.We have some players whose characters' selfishness or selflessness is based very much on the character. We have other players who are altruistic all the time, even when they try to play a selfish character. We have some who NEVER play altruistic characters, and whose PCs do not voluntarily set foot on the path without promise of some monetary reward.One player we have I keep saying is the Robin Laws textbook definition of a "Power Gamer." It's his term for a player whose primary goal for a game session is for his character to accumulate some form of wealth or power, and see it realized in-game. If the party went to rescue a penniless princess in a desert, and received NO loot from the journey whatsoever, only the satisfaction of being heroes, he'd be the most unhappy of the group. It's not "playing wrong" per se - it's just the kind of reward he plays the game for.OTOH, We have a player who has a very hard time playing anything but a basically good hero. He could set out with the goal of playing Neutral Greedy, and end up having his character have a moral epiphany, because he got tired of being an evil sod. I tend to be the same way, though I can keep playing "greedy" if I keep concentrating on it - otherwise I tend to backslide towards altruistic subconsciously. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Most of the group plays it by alignment though.</blockquote>

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