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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 4494777" data-attributes="member: 957">I don't think that it is possible for a game to make roleplaying your characters difficult.Of course this truth applies just as well to Descent as it does to GURPS, 3E, 4E, Hero, Mutants and Masterminds, Burning Wheel, you name it.As my sig notes, roleplaying is not between the covers of a book.  However, a good roleplaying game (by my defintion) is one in which the mechanics do justice to reflecting the world's reaction to the activities that are being role played.  I can roleplay superman.  If I make a 1st level 3E rogue and declare him superman, I can easily roleplay him as superman.  I will fail to perform like superman in just about every way.  As a superman RPG, low level 3E is a total failure.  The total inability of it to inhibit my roleplaying of superman does not offer one bit of compensation for this failure.  It fails, right in the middle of my awesome roleplaying.  End of discussion.4E does a vastly better job of modeling fantasy heroes than low level 3E does of modeling superman.  But by my standards it is still only fair to middling.  There are vastly better games out there.I can roleplay a fantasy hero precisely the same in any of these games.  I'd be just as baffled if someone said I could not.  But feeling that the mechanics are living up to the roleplaying I am doing is a completely different matter.</blockquote>