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<blockquote data-quote="Harr" data-source="post: 4785845" data-attributes="member: 47190">Yep, the word is ambiguous. Nice one.However, note the subsequent clarification which you didn't quote for some reason. Do your players make a &quot;background&quot; for their characters? Do they care what place in the world their character &quot;comes from&quot;? Is the character's race taken as anything more than a packet of stat bonuses and special abilities? Could you have a character that is &quot;afraid of fire&quot;? Or that &quot;hates dwarves&quot;, or has a mortal enemy from his past, or anything like that?For my players, answers would be &quot;no way&quot;, &quot;hell no&quot;, &quot;huh???&quot;, and &quot;dude seriously stop being weird&quot;. There's the difference.Edit -&gt; I guess another way of describing the difference (since there's never any shortage of people to line up and try to emphazise how ambiguous the word &quot;roleplaying&quot; is one more time) would be to ask, is any of your players aware of the difference between &quot;character knowledge&quot; and &quot;player knowledge&quot; in any way, shape or form, and would they laugh in your face if you tried to explain it? To which in my group, the answer would be a resounding NO, following by a resounding OF COURSE.Clearer now?For sure.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Harr, post: 4785845, member: 47190"] Yep, the word is ambiguous. Nice one. However, note the subsequent clarification which you didn't quote for some reason. Do your players make a "background" for their characters? Do they care what place in the world their character "comes from"? Is the character's race taken as anything more than a packet of stat bonuses and special abilities? Could you have a character that is "afraid of fire"? Or that "hates dwarves", or has a mortal enemy from his past, or anything like that? For my players, answers would be "no way", "hell no", "huh???", and "dude seriously stop being weird". There's the difference. [B]Edit ->[/B] I guess another way of describing the difference (since there's never any shortage of people to line up and try to emphazise how ambiguous the word "roleplaying" is one more time) would be to ask, is any of your players aware of the difference between "character knowledge" and "player knowledge" in any way, shape or form, and would they laugh in your face if you tried to explain it? To which in my group, the answer would be a resounding NO, following by a resounding OF COURSE. Clearer now? For sure. [/QUOTE]

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