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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5750725" data-attributes="member: 22779">Oh, hey, I've stated repeatedly that so long as the player is actively trying to portray the character, I'm pretty happy.Which somewhat blows my mind when Janx pretty much pulls a 180 on his entire line of reasoning with this:This is 100% completely, utterly, what I've been saying since this all started.  You are agreeing with me.  So, what is the difference here?  I've said that if your character is a low stat character with no actual knowledge of whatever he's trying to do, then he probably shouldn't be doing that.  I would hope you wouldn't call my way of DMing poor, since it's completely identical to your own.I have never stated that a player should be bound by the DM.  I've actually repeatedly stated the exact opposite.  That the player should determine what is reasonable for portraying a character.My problem comes when the player completely ignores the character sheet and then portrays something that is NOT SUPPORTED IN ANY WAY by the character he's created.In The Shaman's example, I'd have no real problems.  The character is cowardly and acts so.  His hands shake, he doesn't jump into danger, he probably dreads actually having to act in any way.  Great, that describes a cowardly character.  Fan-freaking-tastic.My issue would come if the player took a cowardly character, never actually described himself as cowardly, was first in line every time combat broke out, jumped at ever chance to put himself in danger and juggled live grenades for fun.  All at the same time.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />So, what in the name of small furry animals are you guys actually on about?  If the character sheet matters and informs the play of that character, I'm perfectly content.  How about you?</blockquote>

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