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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5812402" data-attributes="member: 8835">Outside of the internet, anybody I've ever talked to who plays RPGs, would classify those type of players as "roleplayers".It's a double-use of the word.  Sure, we are all playing a role in a game categorized as Role Playing Game.  But not all of us are "Role Playing" as in behaving a certain way because of the personality of your character, rather than the stats of our character.So, when you ask me what's Role-Playing, I give you the definition of "behaving a certain way because of the personality of your character, rather than the stats of our character."If you want to make Role Playing be something more broad, I would ask that you give me a decent word that means what I meant, so I can use that instead.Acting was one such word.  I think that has negative connotations, as in people who get into 1st person speech-only and have dreams of melodramtic thespianism.  It's certainly something [MENTION=177]Umbran[/MENTION] alluded to.I think "behaving a certain way because of the personality of our character, rather than the stats of your character" can also means saying that my PC is very protective of women and will rush to their defense if he sees them mistreated or disrespected.  A player does not need to speak with a fake accent or speak everything in the first person as his character to follow this trait he has defined.  All he has to do is consistently help women when he sees them being beaten, etc.  The player who defines that trait for his PC and follows it is doing something extra that another player who just moves his PC around the game space and does whatever is optimal is not doing.</blockquote>

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