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<blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 2581887" data-attributes="member: 18832">That's why I call it a false dichotomy - because you are falsely assuming that anything which isn't &quot;Bob the Player pretending that he is Bill the Fighter&quot; is not role-playing, and labelling that &quot;wargaming&quot;.I don't pretend that I am the characters I play. I don't think like them, I don't put myself in their shoes, I don't identify myself or parts of myself with them, I don't play translated versions of myself with or without idealisation, I don't play the person I wish I could be . . . but I do speak for them (not as them), make decisions for them that they themselves would make based on my absolute knowledge of their personality and motivations (not by imagining how I would react in their situation), portray them to the other players and to the DM - in short, I roleplay them.Roleplaying is not just pretending to be someone else. This pseudo-Method idea that &quot;you are your character&quot; is a widespread but limited and faulty assumption.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mhacdebhandia, post: 2581887, member: 18832"] That's why I call it a [b]false[/b] dichotomy - because you are [b]falsely[/b] assuming that anything which isn't "Bob the Player pretending that he is Bill the Fighter" is not role-playing, and labelling that "wargaming". I don't pretend that I am the characters I play. I don't think like them, I don't put myself in their shoes, I don't identify myself or parts of myself with them, I don't play translated versions of myself with or without idealisation, I don't play the person I wish I could be . . . but I do speak for them (not as them), make decisions for them that they themselves would make based on my absolute knowledge of their personality and motivations (not by imagining how I would react in their situation), portray them to the other players and to the DM - in short, I roleplay them. Roleplaying is [b]not[/b] just pretending to be someone else. This pseudo-Method idea that "you are your character" is a widespread but limited and faulty assumption. [/QUOTE]

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