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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7392566" data-attributes="member: 29398">A PC joining an army isn't likely to provide the most interesting of adventuring or role-playing opportunities regardless of whether the game is story now or DM-driven or pretty much anything else. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />One thing common to pretty much all PCs in all RPGs is that they - or at least the parties they are in - are somewhat independent free-thinking entities operating (while adventuring) largely on their own initiative.&nbsp; Even when they're sent on a mission for someone else (which frequently happens) it's almost universally done as &quot;Here's what needs doing, it's up to you as to how it gets done&quot;; and in non-mission situations it's still up to the PCs to determine how they achieve their goals/beliefs/etc.&nbsp; Extremely rare that any of this will happen for a PC that sticks itself in an army and stays there.Lan-&quot;ye gods - I think I've had more 'mention' tags come from this one thread than from the entire rest of my EnWorld history put together&quot;-efan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7392566, member: 29398"] A PC joining an army isn't likely to provide the most interesting of adventuring or role-playing opportunities regardless of whether the game is story now or DM-driven or pretty much anything else. :) One thing common to pretty much all PCs in all RPGs is that they - or at least the parties they are in - are somewhat independent free-thinking entities operating (while adventuring) largely on their own initiative. Even when they're sent on a mission for someone else (which frequently happens) it's almost universally done as "Here's what needs doing, it's up to you as to how it gets done"; and in non-mission situations it's still up to the PCs to determine how they achieve their goals/beliefs/etc. Extremely rare that any of this will happen for a PC that sticks itself in an army and stays there. Lan-"ye gods - I think I've had more 'mention' tags come from this one thread than from the entire rest of my EnWorld history put together"-efan [/QUOTE]

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