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<blockquote data-quote="buzz" data-source="post: 3119647" data-attributes="member: 6777">Man, all this use of &quot;who&quot; and &quot;what&quot; is getting confusing. <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=":)" />Anyway... maybe. The point I'm trying to make is simply that the system can either encourage you to think about the PC's personality and background or not.For example, in Heroquest, you create a character by assembling phrases and keywords. One way to do this is to write a 100-word essay. You then pick key bits from that essay that become the PC's traits, e.g.: &quot;Must kill the six-fingered man - 17,&quot; &quot;Thinks Ulric is a buffon -20,&quot; or &quot;Loyal to father - 13.&quot; Coming up with the traits that define the PC's ability to act in the game world requires the player to think about who the heck this PC is.In D&amp;D, I can plan out an entire 20-level progression knowing absolutely nothing about who my PC is (and could do the same in 1e, Basic, C&amp;C, etc). The system for chargen simply doesn't require me to think about that stuff.The former game tells me a lot about who the PC is just by looking over the character sheet. D&amp;D, otoh, does not. One way isn't superior to the other, and I'm not going to fault a D&amp;D player for not approaching the game as if he were playing Heroquest.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="buzz, post: 3119647, member: 6777"] Man, all this use of "who" and "what" is getting confusing. :) Anyway... maybe. The point I'm trying to make is simply that the system can either encourage you to think about the PC's personality and background or not. For example, in [i]Heroquest[/i], you create a character by assembling phrases and keywords. One way to do this is to write a 100-word essay. You then pick key bits from that essay that become the PC's traits, e.g.: "Must kill the six-fingered man - 17," "Thinks Ulric is a buffon -20," or "Loyal to father - 13." Coming up with the traits that define the PC's ability to act in the game world requires the player to think about who the heck this PC is. In D&D, I can plan out an entire 20-level progression knowing absolutely nothing about who my PC is (and could do the same in 1e, Basic, C&C, etc). The system for chargen simply doesn't require me to think about that stuff. The former game tells me a lot about who the PC is just by looking over the character sheet. D&D, otoh, does not. One way isn't superior to the other, and I'm not going to fault a D&D player for not approaching the game as if he were playing [i]Heroquest[/i]. [/QUOTE]

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