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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zappo" data-source="post: 1532264" data-attributes="member: 633"><p>Roleplaying, for me, is having your character do what he would actually do. If you're playing a cowardly thief and charge into battle, that's poor roleplaying. If you're playing the INT 6 half-orc and say to the wizard "why don't you cast grease in front of the charging cavalry?", that's poor roleplaying. If you leave your loved ones alone in the dungeon, that's poor roleplaying, even if it's a sensible thing to do. Real people have weaknesses, and real people make mistakes because of their emotions (sometimes knowing full well that they are doing them!). A character that's always behaving like some kind of mixture between Sun Tzu and a borg is unrealistic.Don't let yourself be drawn into the usual dichotomy between combat and roleplaying. Combat can BE roleplaying. People who dislike combat saying that they like roleplaying are missing something, or they are poor roleplayers. Combat is extremely dramatic and emotional, people get killed, your friends are in danger... chatting with an NPC about the weather isn't half as good an opportunity for good roleplaying as a nice tough fight.At least until you do kill the baby, thus collapsing the field. Only after that, you will either lose or not lose your paladin powers, and thus find out whether it was evil. Schroedinger morality. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

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