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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 7580764" data-attributes="member: 158"><p>“Roll-play versus Role-play” has always been around - this is maybe the seventh long-running thread I can remember on these forums on the topic? I feel like it’s one of those kinds of topics that absolutely NEED to get discussed if ANY group is gathering for the first time, along with things like “house rules” and “sensitive subject matter/X Cards.”</p><p></p><p>Both groups I game in enjoy a fairly large amount of role-play, to the extent that in one of my groups our last session was probably spoken half the time at the table in-character. If there is table acting, like @S’mon says, it needs to contribute to the other gamers at the table, and not be merely for personal attention - a fun back-and-forth, being ready to “lose” the exchange or have it be at your expense, or to enhance somebody else’s spotlight, and being ready to give up your spotlight when needed.</p><p></p><p>For those at the table who don’t like first-person interactions, we should be able to work with them, too - but it do try to coax a little more out of them when I DM, if nothing more than being more descriptive of the content of their words.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Henry, post: 7580764, member: 158"] “Roll-play versus Role-play” has always been around - this is maybe the seventh long-running thread I can remember on these forums on the topic? I feel like it’s one of those kinds of topics that absolutely NEED to get discussed if ANY group is gathering for the first time, along with things like “house rules” and “sensitive subject matter/X Cards.” Both groups I game in enjoy a fairly large amount of role-play, to the extent that in one of my groups our last session was probably spoken half the time at the table in-character. If there is table acting, like @S’mon says, it needs to contribute to the other gamers at the table, and not be merely for personal attention - a fun back-and-forth, being ready to “lose” the exchange or have it be at your expense, or to enhance somebody else’s spotlight, and being ready to give up your spotlight when needed. For those at the table who don’t like first-person interactions, we should be able to work with them, too - but it do try to coax a little more out of them when I DM, if nothing more than being more descriptive of the content of their words. [/QUOTE]
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