Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Dannyalcatraz]

Or skeeter bites.

Or, as one of my friends found out, a fire ant sting.

Just one, but that was all it took.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Weirdly, in over 40 years of playing and running RPGs with lots of people I've yet to meet a single person who's actually good at both. A lot of people online say they're good at both, but I've never actually seen it in the real world.

I think I’m good at both; I’ve done each exclusively* for at least a decade.

But I tend to avoid “roll playing” because I prefer “role playing, and IMHO, the former gets in the way of my enjoying the latter.



* I’d been playing for 15+ years before I really discovered the fun of roles in roleplaying.

 

[RealAlHazred]

*exacerbates

*expatriates

No, wait...
*excoriates

Oh, wait...
*expropriates

Sorry, I just like 4-syllable words that start with "ex-".

 

[payn]

*expatriates

No, wait...
*excoriates

Oh, wait...
*expropriates

Sorry, I just like 4-syllable words that start with "ex-".

Its getting exhausting.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

*expatriates

No, wait...
*excoriates

Oh, wait...
*expropriates

Sorry, I just like 4-syllable words that start with "ex-".

 

[Mannahnin]

*expatriates

No, wait...
*excoriates

Oh, wait...
*expropriates

Sorry, I just like 4-syllable words that start with "ex-".

Exfoliates!

Exsanguinates!

 

[RealAlHazred]

I'm still waiting to use antidisestablishmentarianism in a sentence, organically.

 

[gnarlygninja]

Weirdly, in over 40 years of playing and running RPGs with lots of people I've yet to meet a single person who's actually good at both. A lot of people online say they're good at both, but I've never actually seen it in the real world.

This seems like one of those times a lot of the differences in opinion come down to the fact that people don't all define role play the same way. I have a friend who would insist he's good at both, and several people who have played with him would agree, because he'll come up with a voice for the character and put some thought into their personality. But I noticed that whenever playing that role would negatively impact the character, that personality would vanish and they'd consistently take whatever course of action seemed the best from a 3rd person view of the situation with information the character wouldn't have. To me, that's not good RP but it seems a lot of people disagree.

 

[Mannahnin]

I'm still waiting to use antidisestablishmentarianism in a sentence, organically.

It's not quite the hot subject of debate that it once was.

 

[overgeeked]

This seems like one of those times a lot of the differences in opinion come down to the fact that people don't all define role play the same way. I have a friend who would insist he's good at both, and several people who have played with him would agree, because he'll come up with a voice for the character and put some thought into their personality. But I noticed that whenever playing that role would negatively impact the character, that personality would vanish and they'd consistently take whatever course of action seemed the best from a 3rd person view of the situation with information the character wouldn't have. To me, that's not good RP but it seems a lot of people disagree.

That's where I am, too. In the end, one takes priority. And it's (almost) always optimization. The player who's built an optimization monster might have a few scenes where they RP really, really well...but when faced with a situation where they have to pick one or the other, they'll (almost) always pick optimization over RP. You can't serve two masters and all that. It's like multitasking. People think they can do it and are great at it, but every bit of research shows the literal opposite. You don't do both well, you do both really badly.