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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 5336554" data-attributes="member: 2205">Of course not, you say, "oh, I'd like to be a good trombone player" then you buy a trombone, take some lessons and practice a lot.In other words, yeah... people do become good at things because they want to.  All the time.  I can name several things that I'm very good at that I used to be terrible at, but because I thought it was important for me to do for whatever reason, I practiced it, and, well, it wasn't exactly BAM, but at some point I got not only competent but even quite good at it.Well, that could be true.  I don't know what you mean by being "good" at roleplaying, though.  What does that mean?  Method acting?  Speaking with a convincing accent?  Thoughtful character introspection?My group is great at roleplaying (IMO) and certainly watching all the characters interact with each other and the setting is my favorite part of getting together to play.Well, if that's your experience then I certainly won't try to argue it.  It is, after all, your experience.  I do question to wisdom in extrapolating from that to the gamer population at large.And I'm always skeptical of any theory that hinges on people's motivations being different than what they say that they are.  That doesn't mean that people can't be mistaken about their motivations, because people are all the time.  But that doesn't mean that someone outside has a better grasp on them, especially when they're just anonymous people on the internet.  Simplicity says "go with what people actually say that they like" every time, and only in unusual situations would I give any serious attention to a theory that contradicted that.</blockquote>

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