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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Shaman" data-source="post: 5291994" data-attributes="member: 26473">Good heavens, why?!Merkuri, I don't want you to think I'm picking on you specifically here; I did read your following paragraph, but I'm trying to understand this concept, and you're not the first nor the only gamer to express this.Okay, with that out of the way, I am perpetually mystified when players adopt this mindset toward the game. From an in-character perspective, your character is an adventurer, right? Isn't seeking out adventure part-and-parcel of living the life of an adventurer?Even the simplest of motivations - kill things, take stuff, purchase ale and whores, repeat - should, in my opinion, lead an adventurer to seek out the means of achieving one's goals. Do you need to know where the treasure is? Talk to wizards and priests and sages and captains and traders - hells, buy the oldest guy in the tavern a flagon and ask him about the area. If the referee has anything on the ball, the game-world should be full of information sources the adventurers can tap. But the adventurers should at the very least possess enough initiative to buy an old geezer a drink first. That's not asking for the world, is it?And if an adventurer's goals are even a little more advanced than that - gain wealth and power, build a stronghold, purchase really good ale and expensive whores - then all bets should be off. Become a knight and marry a princess - how do I join an order and who's daddy do I need to impress? Found a school of wizardry - start collecting a library of magical tomes and pick up henchmen/cohorts as pupils. Build a tample - find a community in need of a priest to serve them, build a shrine, train acolytes. Again, if the referee is anything more than a bump on a log, the game-world should present opportunities to those who seek them.As far as out-of-game goes, I've heard more than a few players - and I'm expressly not including you in this, Merkuri, so please don't assume I'm attributing any sort of motives or behavior to you -  the idea that this is too much like work; usually it's expressed something along the lines of, "I just want to throw dice and move my guy around the table for a couple of hours." (A surprising number of referees - surprising to me, at any rate - accept this and cater to it.) I think this is an unfortunate mindset - in my opinion, playing a roleplaying game like it's Talisman or Descent misses some of what makes roleplaying games a unique form of entertainment. (Let the accusations of "badwrongfun" commence.)Again, this is a mindset I just don't get, so if someone would like to take a stab at explaining it to me, then please, by all means, lay it on me - the floor is yours.</blockquote>

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