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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 1542269" data-attributes="member: 15651">Hi, I'm Dave and I'm a recovering roll-player<group> Hi, Dave!For the first 12 or so years of my gaming life, I was a roll-player.  I didn't want to admit it and I was sure that I was one of the best gamers on the planet.  Why?  Because I could quote rules, reference page numbers of the books and come up with creative uses for spells and magic items in order to confound the DM.I finally admitted to my problem 13 years ago when my ENWorld namesake, Thornir Alekeg, came to be.  A new group in college had some very dynamic roleplayers.  I was impressed and wanted to be like them, to have the fun they were having playing.  These were the cool geeks and I wanted to be just like them.  They taught me by example, not through XP coersion or DM reprimands.  Thornir Alekeg became one of my most cherished characters.  Friends I played with then, that are part of my current group still hold him up as a shining example of roleplaying.I, to this day, struggle to not fall back into my roll-playing ways.  I realize that roll-playing is not wrong or bad..and rolling those dice and scoring a critical is SUCH a THRILL...but I find that after the sessions where I slip back into my old ways, I feel a little...empty.  It feels good at the moment, but it doesn't last.  My current group has many new players.  Most did not roleplay much to start.  I, along with two other experienced players, have tried to be an example to show the new players how much fun it can be to really get into a character.  I have my days where I slip, but I have seen the growth of the new players, the ways their own characters have developed into something more than numbers on a character sheet and it keeps me going.  The ENWorld forums and story hours have also become part of my support network, helping me to both develop my roleplaying, and to understand and accept the roll-player within me and others.<voice-over> Tomorrow on Dr. Phil: Continuing our RPG week theme,  we'll help some RPGers see that a "munchkin" is a doughnut hole, not a bad gamer.</blockquote>

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