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<blockquote data-quote="roguerouge" data-source="post: 3964714" data-attributes="member: 13855">In my experience, it depends. Some players I've played with ALWAYS play deliberately weak classes with the mistaken idea that that's good role playing. Some players fall in love with a mechanic and want to play it, then struggle with the RPing of it. (I have that problem with Dragon Shamans and Druids.) Some players play it consistently in and out of combat, some don't. Some metagame relentlessly, making it so that it's like their first level characters have Rary's Telepathic Bond with the rest of the party. Some simply can't think tactically, but are brilliant socially.To my mind, you can justify a character being more tactically savvy than he would ordinarily be. First, there really are some people who are at their absolute best in pressure situations and it's fair to argue that your PC's one of them. As one example, soldiers, firefighters and cops can have trouble balancing their heroic and personal lives. As another example, there are plenty of pro athletes who are absolute jokers and fools who become deadly serious when the game starts. They hide their intensity and will to win more successfully than others in their field, perhaps. Or perhaps their foolishness off the field blows off steam and allows them to focus when winning means everything.For low level characters, I can definitely see starting to role play their inexpereince in combat. Later, when they become higher level characters, I think it's fair to argue that if they've lasted this long, player tactical expertise is a proxy for that experience.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="roguerouge, post: 3964714, member: 13855"] In my experience, it depends. Some players I've played with ALWAYS play deliberately weak classes with the mistaken idea that that's good role playing. Some players fall in love with a mechanic and want to play it, then struggle with the RPing of it. (I have that problem with Dragon Shamans and Druids.) Some players play it consistently in and out of combat, some don't. Some metagame relentlessly, making it so that it's like their first level characters have Rary's Telepathic Bond with the rest of the party. Some simply can't think tactically, but are brilliant socially. To my mind, you can justify a character being more tactically savvy than he would ordinarily be. First, there really are some people who are at their absolute best in pressure situations and it's fair to argue that your PC's one of them. As one example, soldiers, firefighters and cops can have trouble balancing their heroic and personal lives. As another example, there are plenty of pro athletes who are absolute jokers and fools who become deadly serious when the game starts. They hide their intensity and will to win more successfully than others in their field, perhaps. Or perhaps their foolishness off the field blows off steam and allows them to focus when winning means everything. For low level characters, I can definitely see starting to role play their inexpereince in combat. Later, when they become higher level characters, I think it's fair to argue that if they've lasted this long, player tactical expertise is a proxy for that experience. [/QUOTE]

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