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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 6866059" data-attributes="member: 6775031">The point of pretending that you haven't read the adventure is that you're supposed to pretend that you are your character, and your character has not read the adventure. That's all there is to it. That's what you've signed up for. That's why everyone decided to play a role-playing game in the first place - so they can pretend to be their characters for a while. It's not about drama. Drama is subjective, and what you think is dramatic may not be seen as such to anyone else at the table, nor would it necessarily be appreciated. Your character probably doesn't want drama, so you should not want drama while you are pretending to be your character.It's not about challenge. Your character will have goals, and you may achieve those goals or fail to achieve those goals, but that's not a metric for success or failure in the game. It's not possible to win or lose an RPG, in that sense.It's not even about the narrative. Your characters aren't just characters in some story; for all intents and purposes, within the game world, they are real people while you are playing the game. They see themselves as real people, certainly, so you must treat them as real people while you pretend to be one of them.   It's about role-playing. You sit around a table, and give your honest best effort to play your character to the best of your ability, and everyone else does the same, and together you have shared the experience of role-playing. As long as everyone does their best to role-play, by doing what their characters would do, then you have succeeded at role-playing. And if you don't do that, then you have not only cheated yourself out of the experience, but you've also hurt the game for everyone else at the table - who are forced to suffer through the inconsistencies and poor characterization of someone they interact with on a regular basis.It sounds like you're not much a fan of role-playing, as a process, just for its own sake. You want to overcome challenges, or tell a dramatic story. And that's... fine... if you're into that sort of thing. But it's not really useful or applicable advice, in this thread about how to role-play, if your suggestion is to not.</blockquote>

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