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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8155377" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>I've been primarily the DM since I restarted continuously playing with the advent of 4E (and now into 5E.) And thus I've experienced the gamut of different play styles and focuses of the people I've run games for. The parts that I really like are when the players do in fact try to roleplay to character, rather than just "be themselves" with a bunch of numbers on a sheet of paper to roll dice for but have little to no impact on how the character is roleplayed.</p><p></p><p>This preference in style is what inspires my own choices on the few times I get to play. When one of my players decided he was going to run a monthly (eventually becoming biweekly) Pathfinder game, and this would be the first longer-term campaign I was actually going to be participating in as a player... I wanted to make sure I created a PC whose mechanics would actually match up to how I knew I was going to end up roleplaying just instinctually. I knew I was going to be a talker (just because of the habit of always having to talk when I was the DM) and I knew I would constantly be playing to the highest level of my intelligence (just due to my own experience with the game). So I made myself a Bard and gave myself high CHA and high INT specifically so that the character would match up numerically to how I knew I was going to end up roleplaying him (even if a high INT was not "optimized" for a Bard necessarily.)</p><p></p><p>At the end of the day, this decision has allowed me to do my Skilled Play while maintaining my preferred Role Play. Yes, things like my CON and some combat skills have suffered by doing it like this... but I just feel better about it having worked it out this way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 8155377, member: 7006"] I've been primarily the DM since I restarted continuously playing with the advent of 4E (and now into 5E.) And thus I've experienced the gamut of different play styles and focuses of the people I've run games for. The parts that I really like are when the players do in fact try to roleplay to character, rather than just "be themselves" with a bunch of numbers on a sheet of paper to roll dice for but have little to no impact on how the character is roleplayed. This preference in style is what inspires my own choices on the few times I get to play. When one of my players decided he was going to run a monthly (eventually becoming biweekly) Pathfinder game, and this would be the first longer-term campaign I was actually going to be participating in as a player... I wanted to make sure I created a PC whose mechanics would actually match up to how I knew I was going to end up roleplaying just instinctually. I knew I was going to be a talker (just because of the habit of always having to talk when I was the DM) and I knew I would constantly be playing to the highest level of my intelligence (just due to my own experience with the game). So I made myself a Bard and gave myself high CHA and high INT specifically so that the character would match up numerically to how I knew I was going to end up roleplaying him (even if a high INT was not "optimized" for a Bard necessarily.) At the end of the day, this decision has allowed me to do my Skilled Play while maintaining my preferred Role Play. Yes, things like my CON and some combat skills have suffered by doing it like this... but I just feel better about it having worked it out this way. [/QUOTE]
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