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<blockquote data-quote="Otterscrubber" data-source="post: 220462" data-attributes="member: 4588">In my experience &quot;role-playing&quot; means different things to different people.&nbsp; The key here is to try to understand what everyone involved wants to get out of a game like D&amp;D when they play it.&nbsp; As a DM I find it is key to understand what each of your players wants out of sitting down for a few hours and rolling some dice.&nbsp; Some characters like to solve puzzles, others like to treat it like a video game.&nbsp; I have seen some roleplayers play D&amp;D without even having read the core books simply because they are so creative they like to wing every scenario without rules holding them back from a good story.&nbsp; Still others are rules lawyers who try to argue with DMs about every little detail, spending much energy trying to find a loop in the rules to get out of a tricky situation rather then think that perhaps it is a puzzle to be solved instead of an out of game rule to be researched.&nbsp; The one common thread is in all this is that eveyone thinks they are role-playing very well.&nbsp; Whether it is the puzzler, the min/maxer, a hack-n-slasher, a player who like to antagonize other players or DMs or someone who craves deeper plots rather than disconnected dungeon crawls they all beleive they are acting &quot;in-character&quot;.&nbsp; The important thing here is that whatever their role that they enjoy themselves and enjoy the game according to their particular tastes as long as the other players are game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Otterscrubber, post: 220462, member: 4588"] In my experience "role-playing" means different things to different people. The key here is to try to understand what everyone involved wants to get out of a game like D&D when they play it. As a DM I find it is key to understand what each of your players wants out of sitting down for a few hours and rolling some dice. Some characters like to solve puzzles, others like to treat it like a video game. I have seen some roleplayers play D&D without even having read the core books simply because they are so creative they like to wing every scenario without rules holding them back from a good story. Still others are rules lawyers who try to argue with DMs about every little detail, spending much energy trying to find a loop in the rules to get out of a tricky situation rather then think that perhaps it is a puzzle to be solved instead of an out of game rule to be researched. The one common thread is in all this is that eveyone thinks they are role-playing very well. Whether it is the puzzler, the min/maxer, a hack-n-slasher, a player who like to antagonize other players or DMs or someone who craves deeper plots rather than disconnected dungeon crawls they all beleive they are acting "in-character". The important thing here is that whatever their role that they enjoy themselves and enjoy the game according to their particular tastes as long as the other players are game. [/QUOTE]

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