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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 3736746" data-attributes="member: 3887">I prefer to accommodate players. I'm not so interested in telling them what to play --outside of the few broad parameters. Besides, it's interesting to watch the 'wrong' characters stumble around like bulls in an enchanted china shop. In all seriousness, why? How does that make the game more enjoyable? Again, I'm out to entertain my players, not teach them the consequences of wanting to play the game with the character of their choosing. Hence, I seek to accommodate, and after that, encourage participation during actual play.Some PC's in my current campaign come pretty close to that array...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> To clarify, I'm only talking about ignoring a character's flaws on occasion, and specifically with regard to player participation in planning or social encounters. I wouldn't let someone do it all the time. It's simpler to just acknowledge that the character is as smooth as Cary Grant on occasion. I'm a huge fan of simple. I can think of a number of reasons why not, the simplest being that the player didn't have a firm idea of their characters personality at the start of the game. Or they did, and then decided to change it. Or that even though they enjoying playing a certain type of character most of the time, sometimes they like to break out of that (consistency being the 2 hit die hobgoblin of little minds and all that...).It my experience that 'going with the flow' leads to a more fun game. You could say my DM'ing philosophy is best summed up by the classic scene in Animal House, where Bluto gives a moving, yet factually incorrect speech invoking the German attack on Pearl Harbor, which is to say, more often than not when confronted with a player's actions don't neatly match up to their characters abilities, I say 'Forget in, he's rolling'.</blockquote>

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