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Message: <blockquote data-quote="demetri0us" data-source="post: 5336096" data-attributes="member: 70085">Ditto. Totally.I've played and run 100's of games from my FLGS, to my parents basement to Gencon and I never see roleplaying of the caliber people talk about online.I once went to a game where the GM's out of town buddy showed up to play. After discovering what my character was, he proclaimed "I don't find cheesy characters like that very interesting because I'm a roleplayer."His version of roleplaying? An uselessly weak halfling fighter that undermined every party decision. His "roleplaying" was to be contrary in every possible way.News flash. Roleplaying has nothing to do with what is on the paper. Pun-pun can be roleplayed just as effectively as a peasant with one arm and a drinking problem.I actually believe most folks who think they prefer a rules light game are actually just terrible at rules theory, rules retention, character optimization, strategy and tactics. The way many of these folks seem to cope with this is to tell everybody how they play isn't in the spirit of the game. They tell us that roleplaying is the correct way to play the game.Well, at least that's been my milages.</blockquote>