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<blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 8191622" data-attributes="member: 2629">The full quote: Roleplaying is, literally, the act of playing out a role. In this case, it’s you as a player determining how your character thinks, acts, and talks.You decide how your character thinks, acts and talks to playing out that role. That role is defined.&nbsp; You build the definition, under the rules, during character creation.&nbsp; Not playing that role is not playing this role playing game, as described by the books.&nbsp; It can still be fun, but ignoring the character limitations you built into the PC during character creation - well it is just as fair as having your 6 Strength PC life a boulder weighing 300 lbs. The DM does not spontaneously say that sentence.&nbsp; They feel the need to do so when immersion has been broken by a PC not playing their character.&nbsp; It might be the DM feeling it by themself, or it may be the entire table.&nbsp; Again - if you don't want to play a character as it is defined by the rules, and the people at your table don't care - you can have a lot of fun ignoring what the rules say about your PC. However, if your 6 intelligence PC is allowed to exhibit abnormally high levels of intelligence, it is very similar to a 6 strength PC lifting that boulder - you didn't &quot;buy&quot; the capability during character creation - but you're using it anyways.&nbsp; Many players and DM object to it just as much as they object to a player lying about die rolls.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jgsugden, post: 8191622, member: 2629"] The full quote: [i]Roleplaying is, literally, the act of playing out a role. In this case, it’s you as a player determining how your character thinks, acts, and talks.[/i]You decide how your character thinks, acts and talks to playing out that role. That role is defined. You build the definition, under the rules, during character creation. Not playing [I]that[/I] role is not playing [I]this[/I] role playing game, as described by the books. It can still be fun, but ignoring the character limitations you built into the PC during character creation - well it is just as fair as having your 6 Strength PC life a boulder weighing 300 lbs. The DM does not spontaneously say that sentence. They feel the need to do so when immersion has been broken by a PC not playing their character. It might be the DM feeling it by themself, or it may be the entire table. Again - if you don't want to play a character as it is defined by the rules, and the people at your table don't care - you can have a lot of fun ignoring what the rules say about your PC. However, if your 6 intelligence PC is allowed to exhibit abnormally high levels of intelligence, it is very similar to a 6 strength PC lifting that boulder - you didn't "buy" the capability during character creation - but you're using it anyways. Many players and DM object to it just as much as they object to a player lying about die rolls. [/QUOTE]

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