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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dremmen" data-source="post: 3119585" data-attributes="member: 30977">So one needs to be playing Exalted to get in depth with their role-playing? From my experience it comes down to the players you got together. To some degree the DM/GM can prod those players that are on the fence between playing a "what" and a "who" to go one way or the other (in my case, the "who"). Like you mentioned above buzz, I think the folks on the fence may start out as "what"s, their character a class and race and little else, but with prodding from the DM/GM, with injections of side stories and background and such, some downtime, they may develop a "who" for their "what". However, if you have a whole group that is primarily into playing "what"s, and with little interest in backstories or even names (the paladin does this, the elf does this, etc), then the DM/GM should run a game that caters to that or risk losing the group's interest.Not my cup of tea, mind you, but one needs to keep in mind the end goal, which is to have fun. And I promise you, if you try to run a game assuming the players are "who"s, when they are "what"s, they will quickly take out a comic book or magic cards to kill time while you go in depth about going ons in the game world and details about events that affect their lives. They just won't care. They are looking for the next leg of the mission, the next step towards completing the quest and getting their XP/gold. So a DM/GM needs to run a game geared for that. At the same token "who"s will quickly get irritated if they are just going from encounter to encounter without time to explore the other PCs, or talk to NPCs, or simply explore one of their characters hobbies completly disregarding their present quest.I don't believe the carrot/stick method works well - most intelligent players will roll their eyes while you reward extra XP to Maria's Barbarian with the Proffession (seamstress) skill for taking the time to make a particularly handsome shawl for her lesbian life partner. I've also observed that if you have such a reward system in the game "what"s will try to abuse it, trying to squeeze the GM/DM for XP and then arguments rise over the subjective nature of such a system. Groups that are "who"s will find the game play that caters to that reward unto itself, while the "what'"s find reward enough as they see their PCs level up efficiently as they move forward in the game.</blockquote>

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