Bill Zebub
“It’s probably Matt Mercer’s fault.”
Another way of saying this is: the amount of "you" in a character can be anywhere from 0 to 100%. (One of my arguments is that it's impossible to reach 0%, but for the sake of this particular argument, I'm willing to pretend it is possible.)
So the question is, how much "not you" is necessary for a character to become interesting, both to you and to others? I don't think it's very much, and by far the larger factor is what you do with the parts that are different.
However, the argument I seem to be hearing (maybe I'm misunderstanding it?) is that "real Roleplaying is 0% you". And I just don't get how that could possibly be true. I do get that some people think it's a fun exercise to strive for 0%, and if that's your goal then that's your metric, and you should have fun with that. But that doesn't make it "real" or even "better" roleplaying.
In some ways I guess I'm critiquing Colville's argument...which admittedly I'm getting translated through the OP...that "2 dimensional roleplaying" is one-concept schtick, but suddenly "3 dimensional roleplaying" is not even you. In my book that would be "infinite dimension roleplaying", and there's a whole lotta gradations between 2 and infinity.
So the question is, how much "not you" is necessary for a character to become interesting, both to you and to others? I don't think it's very much, and by far the larger factor is what you do with the parts that are different.
However, the argument I seem to be hearing (maybe I'm misunderstanding it?) is that "real Roleplaying is 0% you". And I just don't get how that could possibly be true. I do get that some people think it's a fun exercise to strive for 0%, and if that's your goal then that's your metric, and you should have fun with that. But that doesn't make it "real" or even "better" roleplaying.
In some ways I guess I'm critiquing Colville's argument...which admittedly I'm getting translated through the OP...that "2 dimensional roleplaying" is one-concept schtick, but suddenly "3 dimensional roleplaying" is not even you. In my book that would be "infinite dimension roleplaying", and there's a whole lotta gradations between 2 and infinity.