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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Campbell" data-source="post: 8807961" data-attributes="member: 16586">Here's what personally hinders my sense of inhabiting a character in the situations they find themselves in:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Social pressure to pursue some adventure or investigate some lead that really does not have anything to do whatsoever with the aims of the characters I am playing.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The feeling that by playing a character who has a complex emotional life and might sometimes do things that are not in their best interest I am hindering group success at the scenario. Rules can ameliorate this feeling by relieving the tension between playing to a character's emotional state and playing to achieve one's goals,</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If it feels like a given NPC or PC is being played in a way that is the result of a player or GM trying to achieve some sort of story outcome rather than playing with curiosity.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Other players playing characters that are basically self inserts with maybe some personality quirks.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The GM addressing the group rather than individual characters. The whole PC Voltron thing.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If it feels like the setting is being manipulated to ensure player characters have these big shining hold my beer moments. </li> </ul></blockquote>