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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9114977" data-attributes="member: 18">But you can play it without improv-style RP, or indeed in-character talking at all.At least 30-50% of the people I played RPGs with in my teenage years just wouldn't talk in-character (the rest though, it was hard to stop them!). Even to this day one of the people in my main group rarely talks in-character (though once he gets going he can really get on a roll).The kind of improvising that's necessary is thinking on your feet - and a lot of D&amp;D (specifically, as opposed to RPGs in general) actually supports minimizing improvising even in that sense, and simply going for tactical or logical decisions. I think this is quite helpful to D&amp;D actually because people who can't deal well with sort of &quot;you could do anything&quot; RPGs can deal with a bunch of discrete actions and spells listed on their character sheet where they just have to pick one.I think this is actually part of why some players really don't like characters like &quot;simple Fighters&quot; - not are they conceptually dull to a lot of new-to-RPGs players (who usually want to play something &quot;fancier&quot;) - but they don't provide the same framework for decisions that a full caster does, for example.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9114977, member: 18"] But you can play it without improv-style RP, or indeed in-character talking at all. At least 30-50% of the people I played RPGs with in my teenage years just wouldn't talk in-character (the rest though, it was hard to stop them!). Even to this day one of the people in my main group rarely talks in-character (though once he gets going he can really get on a roll). The kind of improvising that's necessary is thinking on your feet - and a lot of D&D (specifically, as opposed to RPGs in general) actually supports minimizing improvising even in that sense, and simply going for tactical or logical decisions. I think this is quite helpful to D&D actually because people who can't deal well with sort of "you could do anything" RPGs can deal with a bunch of discrete actions and spells listed on their character sheet where they just have to pick one. I think this is actually part of why some players really don't like characters like "simple Fighters" - not are they conceptually dull to a lot of new-to-RPGs players (who usually want to play something "fancier") - but they don't provide the same framework for decisions that a full caster does, for example. [/QUOTE]

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