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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5809403" data-attributes="member: 8835">role playing, as in playing a role or character.It means defining a character, by its motivations, mannerisms, personality and traits and making in-game decisions and portrayal of the character that are consistent.If you say your character always comes to the aid of women, hates anybody who mistreats them (ala Harry Dresden in The Dresden Files), then your PC should almost always rush to defend a woman in need.  He would be hard-pressed to have a reason NOT to help her (such as knowing she was evil and just manipulating him because she is a recurring NPC who has pulled this trick on him before).Thus, in the first encounter of the game, if the PC witnesses a man beating a woman, he must intervene if he is roleplaying his character correctly.As a matter of presentation in the game, I like to speak the quoted dialogue for my character.  However, I do not consider it invalid roleplaying to describe your PC's actions in first or third person, but to avoid or minimize actual quoted dialogue.  Thus: the following exchanges with the GM are still roleplaying:PC: I politely ask the innkeep if he has any rooms for some weary travelers.orPC: "Good evening.  My friends and I have traveled a long way, have you any rooms available for the night?"or PC: Janx wearily walks up to the counter, and asks if there's any rooms for his friends.  He brushes off some of the mud that's fallen off his arm onto the counter to the floor, so as not to irk the innkeep.</blockquote>

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