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<blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 3605481" data-attributes="member: 18832">I voted Psychodrama with the caveat that I would delete the &quot;No one should try to interfere with your vision&quot; bit. Whatever enjoyment I get out of figuring out how my characters would react to their stressful lives and how to portray that at the table is always in the context of the game as a group activity where everyone is responsible for making sure that everyone else is having fun too.Still, I will admit that I am irritated when a GM assumes that they know what my character is &quot;all about&quot; and therefore throw in inappropriate or irrelevant events or challenges - why not just ask me? It was that sort of thing which left a sour taste in my mouth at the end of my favourite game ever.I enjoy tinkering with the system to make characters who are fun to play and mechanically evocative of their concepts, and I love exploring fictional worlds and all that, but a lot of the action and adventure of the game is more valuable to me as an interesting and unusual backdrop for the &quot;psychodrama&quot; - a way of throwing the issues and attitudes I like to think about into stark relief.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mhacdebhandia, post: 3605481, member: 18832"] I voted [b]Psychodrama[/b] with the caveat that I would delete the "No one should try to interfere with your vision" bit. Whatever enjoyment I get out of figuring out how my characters would react to their stressful lives and how to portray that at the table is [b]always[/b] in the context of the game as a group activity where everyone is responsible for making sure that everyone else is having fun too. Still, I will admit that I am irritated when a GM assumes that they know what my character is "all about" and therefore throw in inappropriate or irrelevant events or challenges - why not just ask me? It was that sort of thing which left a sour taste in my mouth at the end of my favourite game ever. I enjoy tinkering with the system to make characters who are fun to play and mechanically evocative of their concepts, and I love exploring fictional worlds and all that, but a lot of the action and adventure of the game is more valuable to me as an interesting and unusual backdrop for the "psychodrama" - a way of throwing the issues and attitudes I like to think about into stark relief. [/QUOTE]

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