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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 6857454" data-attributes="member: 6787503">Once again, you're taking this quote out of context. Gygax is saying, "players should try to become that person they are imagining during the course of the game, and conduct the actions of their characters accordingly," in place of "stilted attempts to act the part of some character." So rather than try to "act the part" of a stupid character (because the character's Intelligence is 5), the player should identify and conflate him or herself with (become) the character, as he or she imagines it, conducting the actions of the character in accordance with that identity and conflation. Unless you imagine your character as stupid, there's nothing here that says you should pretend to be stupid when playing your character. In fact, this is the approach to the game that Gygax says, "tends to make playing out an adventure more of a children’'s 'let'’s pretend' activity."Then why did you assert several times that a passage that says nothing about tournament play only applies to tournament play?I don't disagree, but this seems like an odd thing to say after having claimed that it supports your opinion.(edit: Maybe it's just that I find it amusing that you became dismissive of the article only after its support for your position was called into question.)</blockquote>