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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Warpiglet" data-source="post: 6955923" data-attributes="member: 6689161">I could not agree more strongly with the idea of a continuum.  In fact, being a behavioral scientist, I could not help but entertain the idea of making a questionnaire for describing playstyle which could be used to match up "perfect" groups (of players that is--characters are secondary).The dial has been sliding on my scale for some time.  I know where I fall and it is not at an extreme end.  As to your limitations with race and class combinations: I have chosen to move past them for the most part.  However, some of the limitations made for novelty when someone found a way to get around them in some way.  I still like the idea of strength rogues, tough wizards and so forth because expectations create opportunity for novelty.I just realize that I had started to buy into more of an emphasis on roleplaying than I really enjoyed.  It seems high minded, different, serious.  But at the end of the day I want to succeed in tasks too.  Roleplaying helps me to do so with style.  But I really stay with characters who have both.  I like the bonds, flaws and traits a great deal.  Of all the fun I have had, the most has been with real character for characters.  In the AD&D (1st edition) days, there were no that many knobs to turn in comparison with feat and skills and so forth (hell even with point buy options!).  We went through lots of characters....but the ones that had legs had personality and maybe the lucky find of a magic axe that took things in new directions.That all being said, I still like to be effective in some things, to have options...sometimes the fun of those choices helps me make a character.  Sometimes the character helps me make those choices.  So even in character development I am all over the place.The end result is not right or wrong of course, but should be one of enjoyment.  From age 7 to now, in my forties, I find it interesting that I have moved from one extreme to the middle back and then to the middle again.  And I am guiltless unless for some reason I were to reduce my friends' enjoyment with my choices, of course.</blockquote>

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