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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5809777" data-attributes="member: 8835">there is the crux of our disagreement.To me role-playing is playing according to the definition of the character.Even the kinky form follows this pattern.  When your girlfriend puts on the naughty nurse outfit, there is a definition of character.  if she acts like herself (assuming she is not normally a naughty nurse or porn star) or like a construction worker, she is not role playing.There can be a grey area if you have not pre-established/defined your character that you may define it through game play.  But eventually, a sense of that character should form as something that your portrayal of him is consistent, barring character growth in the game.It's not even about the GM.  The PLAYER should be asking, what is this PC like, and then playing that PC according to the answer.Otherwise, you are just making stuff up and doing whatever seems like a good idea.A PC should not run 10 levels being Lawful Good and the next day, start commiting CE crimes.  That isn't who the character is, unless the PC was really evil all along or has had a character changing event occur that makes him embrace evil.A player who says "I'm going to start doing evil stuff now, because we had 3 new evil PCs join the party" is not roleplaying.Obviously, there are other styles of playing.  I follow my definition, which anything less strikes me as incomprehensible per the defintion of the term roleplaying or acting.  My key observation is that at some point, your PC is defined a certain way.  If you keep playing him that way, perhaps adjusting as life events happen, you are roleplaying.  If you keep moving him around the board as a game token, you are not roleplaying.</blockquote>

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