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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bill Zebub" data-source="post: 8981160" data-attributes="member: 7031982">There was some back-and-forth on the Shadowdark Discord* about roleplaying in OSR, and I realized partway through that people were using "roleplaying" interchangeably to mean:a) Acting out the persona of your characterb) Interacting with NPCsCertainly both of those things can happen simultaneously, but each can also happen independently of the other: you can roleplay swinging your sword, and you can interact with an NPC without expressing your character.No real insight here, just pointing out that the word can carry both meanings.*The kind we've all seen, where somebody with 40+ years of experience...like so many of us...comes in thinking that everybody else is just a kid who needs/wants to be edified by a veteran, and proceeds to tell us all how the game "should" be played.</blockquote>