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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9198388" data-attributes="member: 29398">While I personally agree with the general sentiment of this, I'm not sure it's quite so cut-and-dried for everyone.To be devil's advocate for a moment: there's some to whom playing an RPG is akin to playing a boardgame, only with fewer confinements and more variability in play as the game proceeds.&nbsp; Characterization and imagination are a distant second (if present at all) to meta-tactics, strategies, and problem/puzzle-solving at the player level.&nbsp; Pawn-stance play at its extreme is a version of this, where the player's character is seen as nothign but a pawn on a very big board.That depends.&nbsp; If the ruleset is being written with the specific intent of promoting extreme-pawn-stance play, then it has not failed - and in fact has succeeded - if extreme-pawn-stance play is what generally results when that system is used.Most RPG rulesets are (thankfully!) not written with this intent.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9198388, member: 29398"] While I personally agree with the general sentiment of this, I'm not sure it's quite so cut-and-dried for everyone. To be devil's advocate for a moment: there's some to whom playing an RPG is akin to playing a boardgame, only with fewer confinements and more variability in play as the game proceeds. Characterization and imagination are a distant second (if present at all) to meta-tactics, strategies, and problem/puzzle-solving at the player level. Pawn-stance play at its extreme is a version of this, where the player's character is seen as nothign but a pawn on a very big board. That depends. If the ruleset is being written with the specific intent of promoting extreme-pawn-stance play, then it has not failed - and in fact has succeeded - if extreme-pawn-stance play is what generally results when that system is used. Most RPG rulesets are (thankfully!) not written with this intent. [/QUOTE]

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