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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bleys" data-source="post: 1822667" data-attributes="member: 12367">I'm not a big one for mincing words, so if I didn't say it, then I didn't mean it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />What I did mean is that the gaming groups I've had the pleasure of being a part of have had people (regardless of age, since there were some huge disparities in some of them, like the one group where the youngest player was 15 and the oldest was in his late 40s) who were excellent at keeping what happened in character separate from their out of character opinions and were more than willing to work things out using the personality of the character involved.Any of the various methods that have already been discussed make perfect sense, as well, especially if that's how the characters are played.  Everyone tends to put bits and pieces of themselves into the characters they play, and one part of me that tends to spill over the most is my laid back, easy-going attitude.  Because of that I'm perfectly content to go with things however the party wants to do them (unless I happen to be playing a character who is much more rigid, but I don't tend to do that too often <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=";)" />), and everyone I currently game with approaches things from the same point of view.  We're all quite happy to just distribute things as people need them and not really worry the details.Of course, the next game we start we might all decide to play characters who would rather not see things done that way, and we'll take a comletely different approach to dividing things up... but based on the last few years, the odds of that happening from a total party point of view are probably slim.  I'm guessing there might be at least one of us who will play a character who is a bit more selfish, though <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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