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<blockquote data-quote="Greylock" data-source="post: 3860040" data-attributes="member: 19056">I guess our group is lucky. I consider everyone in it to be a roleplayer, and each a good one in their own ways. I can think of a couple right off that would deny it, simply because they sometime let &quot;meta&quot; thoughts get in the way, or can't talk in interesting accents. Of the latter, our group usually has one that can pull that off, but honestly, in most cases where I've heard folks in other groups use funny accents, I've considered a poor substitute for roleplaying, and think of it as a mask. Folks who think saying &quot;Yar, I slay it with meh axe&quot; in an Scottish brogue is roleplaying. It's not.*&nbsp;What the folks in my group can do, and do often, and do excellently, is inhabit their characters, and are consistent in acting like their characters. Understanding their motivations, their wants, their little bits of humanity or demi-humanity. Even if they, and I, often play our characters using the third person voice, the characters are always played true. And that's what counts.&nbsp;*[Now, the one guy in my group who plays Glorin the Dwarf with a Scottish brogue? If you are reading this, I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about the fatbeards at that place in Bartlett.]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Greylock, post: 3860040, member: 19056"] I guess our group is lucky. I consider everyone in it to be a roleplayer, and each a good one in their own ways. I can think of a couple right off that would deny it, simply because they sometime let "meta" thoughts get in the way, or can't talk in interesting accents. Of the latter, our group usually has one that can pull that off, but honestly, in most cases where I've heard folks in other groups use funny accents, I've considered a poor substitute for roleplaying, and think of it as a mask. Folks who think saying "Yar, I slay it with meh axe" in an Scottish brogue is roleplaying. It's not.* What the folks in my group can do, and do often, and do excellently, is inhabit their characters, and are consistent in acting like their characters. Understanding their motivations, their wants, their little bits of humanity or demi-humanity. Even if they, and I, often play our characters using the third person voice, the characters are always played true. And that's what counts. *[Now, the one guy in my group who plays Glorin the Dwarf with a Scottish brogue? If you are reading this, I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about the fatbeards at that place in Bartlett.] [/QUOTE]

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