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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8488506" data-attributes="member: 42582">[USER=85870]@innerdude[/USER], you description of &quot;neotrad&quot; fits my understanding. I should add that my understanding is second-hand - I've never played in this style - but is an attempt to honestly make sense of what I've read about it.I'm currently participating in a <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/roleplaying-in-d-d-5e-it%E2%80%99s-how-you-play-the-game.684670/" target="_blank">&quot;what is roleplaying&quot;-type thread</a> on the 5e subforum. Quite a few of the posts seems to be coming from a neotrad perspective: eg that it is permissible and expected that a player will imagine their PC independently of the mechanics of character build, and that imagining should survive the vicissitudes of actual play; one resolution technique used to support this is reducing the roll of dice rolls/checks in non-combat, non-spell casting adjudication - so the upshot seems to be a style of play which (to me, presumably not to its practitioners!) is quite surprising: Gygax-style skilled play based on adjudication of the fictional positioning, but in the fiction with all this stuff being done by this motley assortment of charming barbarians, muscly wizards, halflings whose small size is largely set-dressing, etc.A very pejorative way of describing this sort of play, that I have come across, is &quot;cosplay and combat&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 8488506, member: 42582"] [USER=85870]@innerdude[/USER], you description of "neotrad" fits my understanding. I should add that my understanding is second-hand - I've never played in this style - but is an attempt to honestly make sense of what I've read about it. I'm currently participating in a [url=https://www.enworld.org/threads/roleplaying-in-d-d-5e-it%E2%80%99s-how-you-play-the-game.684670/]"what is roleplaying"-type thread[/url] on the 5e subforum. Quite a few of the posts seems to be coming from a neotrad perspective: eg that it is permissible and expected that a player will imagine their PC independently of the mechanics of character build, and that imagining should survive the vicissitudes of actual play; one resolution technique used to support this is reducing the roll of dice rolls/checks in non-combat, non-spell casting adjudication - so the upshot seems to be a style of play which (to me, presumably not to its practitioners!) is quite surprising: Gygax-style skilled play based on adjudication of the fictional positioning, but in the fiction with all this stuff being done by this motley assortment of charming barbarians, muscly wizards, halflings whose small size is largely set-dressing, etc. A very pejorative way of describing this sort of play, that I have come across, is "cosplay and combat". [/QUOTE]

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