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<blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 1997290" data-attributes="member: 7240">Hey guys,I know that it is tempting to fall back on a good old chestnut like roleplaying versus metagame knowledge and the appropriateness of either approach. But I think it is a mistake to view the person with whom Hannibal is having the dispute as a representative of the &quot;roleplay&quot; school or Hannibal as a representative of the &quot;metagame&quot; school. A person from the &quot;roleplay&quot; school would never declare that if the player of the deceased character rolled-up a new character instead of being resurrected that whoever that character turned out to be should not be admitted to the party.Similarly, a person from the &quot;metagame&quot; school would have taken one of the half-dozen or more potential solutions to this dilemma that have been offered here as alternatives to temporarily nationalizing the problem player's character. Neither of these two basic, equally valid approaches is being represented in this situation. Hannibal's proposed solution does not deserve the support of the metagamer faction here. I consider myself to be a member of this faction and I have zero patience with the idea of nationalizing a character when other, far less invasive solutions are available.Despite the thread's title, this is not actually a debate about whether role playing should get in the way of people's enjoyment. This thread is about trying to explain to a GM that he needs to find an alternative to nationalizing people's characters when he doesn't like their decisions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fusangite, post: 1997290, member: 7240"] Hey guys, I know that it is tempting to fall back on a good old chestnut like roleplaying versus metagame knowledge and the appropriateness of either approach. But I think it is a mistake to view the person with whom Hannibal is having the dispute as a representative of the "roleplay" school or Hannibal as a representative of the "metagame" school. A person from the "roleplay" school would never declare that if the player of the deceased character rolled-up a new character instead of being resurrected that whoever that character turned out to be should not be admitted to the party. Similarly, a person from the "metagame" school would have taken one of the half-dozen or more potential solutions to this dilemma that have been offered here as alternatives to temporarily nationalizing the problem player's character. Neither of these two basic, equally valid approaches is being represented in this situation. Hannibal's proposed solution does not deserve the support of the metagamer faction here. I consider myself to be a member of this faction and I have zero patience with the idea of nationalizing a character when other, far less invasive solutions are available. Despite the thread's title, this is not actually a debate about whether role playing should get in the way of people's enjoyment. This thread is about trying to explain to a GM that he needs to find an alternative to nationalizing people's characters when he doesn't like their decisions. [/QUOTE]

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