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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6161258" data-attributes="member: 1465">I thought that &quot;acting your PC's dialogue&quot; was just intended as detailing what your character says in an interaction contest, as opposed to just say &quot;I roll a Diplomacy check&quot;. But maybe by &quot;acting&quot; Mearls really meant staging the speech theatrically. I don't think it's bad for a gaming group to reward that, if everybody likes that sort of thing. But I agree it's bad for D&amp;D to encourage everybody to stage or perform, because this is something that easily alienates A LOT of players who just hate that way of playing the game. Although, IMHO the problem is not so much with people staging their roleplaying, but rather with people who suck hard at that*, and don't realize it. Doing &quot;funny voices&quot; is not acting, it is LAME acting (unless the whole wanted context is clearly comedic, in which case funny voices can be part of it).*which is really the vast majority of the gamers who tryEdit: and yes, I totally agree that roleplaying is not so much about acting but rather about having your PCs make choices of free will that describe who their are as individuals (as opposed to only making tactically optimized choices, which is what an artificial intelligence would do)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 6161258, member: 1465"] I thought that "acting your PC's dialogue" was just intended as detailing what your character says in an interaction contest, as opposed to just say "I roll a Diplomacy check". But maybe by "acting" Mearls really meant staging the speech theatrically. I don't think it's bad for a gaming group to reward that, if everybody likes that sort of thing. But I agree it's bad for D&D to encourage everybody to stage or perform, because this is something that easily alienates A LOT of players who just hate that way of playing the game. Although, IMHO the problem is not so much with people staging their roleplaying, but rather with people who suck hard at that*, and don't realize it. Doing "funny voices" is not acting, it is LAME acting (unless the whole wanted context is clearly comedic, in which case funny voices can be part of it). *which is really the vast majority of the gamers who try Edit: and yes, I totally agree that roleplaying is not so much about acting but rather about having your PCs make choices of free will that describe who their are as individuals (as opposed to only making tactically optimized choices, which is what an artificial intelligence would do) [/QUOTE]

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