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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8200376" data-attributes="member: 29398">This......is quite different from this:The latter is very important.&nbsp; As for the former, and going back to the difference between stage acting and RPGing for a minute, just because the character's your own and doesn't have to follow scripted lines doesn't excuse you-as-its-portrayer from paying attention to the guidelines established (in the script notes///on the character sheet) for/around said character and having those guidelines inform your portrayal.&nbsp; Wilfully ignoring those guidelines falls, IMO, into pretty much the same bucket as wilfully ignoring the dice on those occasions when you don't like what they roll.Put another way: honour what's on the character sheet as established fiction, because it is.&nbsp; It's backstory, in a way, and falls under the same aegis as the backstory the DM has established for the setting: that being a reflection of what was in place before play began.&nbsp; It's kind of a brute-force mechanical summation of the results of what you'd have got if you had long-form-roleplayed this character through all of the x-many years of its life before joining the adventuring crew.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8200376, member: 29398"] This... ...is quite different from this: The latter is very important. As for the former, and going back to the difference between stage acting and RPGing for a minute, just because the character's your own and doesn't have to follow scripted lines doesn't excuse you-as-its-portrayer from paying attention to the guidelines established (in the script notes///on the character sheet) for/around said character and having those guidelines inform your portrayal. Wilfully ignoring those guidelines falls, IMO, into pretty much the same bucket as wilfully ignoring the dice on those occasions when you don't like what they roll. Put another way: honour what's on the character sheet as established fiction, because it is. It's backstory, in a way, and falls under the same aegis as the backstory the DM has established for the setting: that being a reflection of what was in place before play began. It's kind of a brute-force mechanical summation of the results of what you'd have got if you had long-form-roleplayed this character through all of the x-many years of its life before joining the adventuring crew. [/QUOTE]

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