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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 2581926" data-attributes="member: 18832">I think that's an inaccurate (and kind of insulting) way to look at it.My characters aren't "puppets" in the sense that I jerk them around, having them do this and that on my whim. No, I flatter myself that I create pretty interesting characters with deep backgrounds and motivations, and then over the course of the game I play them in reaction to unfolding events in accordance with their personality, that background and those motivations.As I said, my personal desires don't really come into it - because the only thing I'm interested in from the roleplaying side of things is seeing if there's an interesting story that comes about from my character's interaction with events and the setting.They're not "pieces on a game board" or "puppets" because I constrain myself to portraying them honestly, to having them act as they would naturally act if they were real people.I don't see how the way I do things can be described as if it were a boardgame. My characters have personalities and goals and motivations. I portray them accurately - not through pretending to be them, but at a remove. How is that less a form of roleplaying?If nothing else, I guarantee you that the only difference between me and someone who does pretend to be their character, as far as anyone is ever likely to be able to discern, is that I'm not invested in the PCs' success - and that's something I've seen in people who do strongly identify with their PCs, so it's hardly diagnostic.</blockquote>

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