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<blockquote data-quote="Aeolius" data-source="post: 4591201" data-attributes="member: 2072">What drew you to roleplaying, rather than watching the endeavours of characters created by other people (on TV series for example)?&nbsp;&nbsp; To be fair, &quot;watching the endeavours of characters created by other people&quot; could also include reading books.&nbsp;&nbsp; As children, we are all role-players; cops-n-robbers, cowboys and indians, pirates, knights, superheroes, and more. Some people choose to grow out of&nbsp; such games, others do not. D&amp;D is a tool for collaborative explorations of our imaginations, nothing more or less. Some use their imaginations for wargaming, some for interactive story-telling. D&amp;D can be used as a commonality for both.&nbsp;&nbsp; Role-playing, in it's loosest abstraction, is simply interactive television. Instead of watching the show, we participate in it, mold it, and change it to our liking. Can one role-play in a game of WoW? Of course you can, but it isn't required. One can role-play while playing solitaire, for that matter, but best not to do so out loud. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> &nbsp;What aspect of roleplaying do you enjoy the most? (Escapism? Creating an original character? Being able to tell a collective story? Doing things you're unable to IRL?)&nbsp;&nbsp; All of the above. I see role-playing/D&amp;D as a collaborative work of interactive fiction. I set the stage; creating a world and populating it with creatures, encounters, traps, and treasures. Then the players enter, stage left, shaping our shared world with their characters. &nbsp;How do you feel about the stories that are created through playing? Do you feel a stronger connection to them, or less? Do you feel you're part of its telling, or just an audience member to the DM?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I have my own peculiarities. I am fascinated by hags and the sea. However I do not expect the same of my players. Therein lies the challenge. How to I describe the world beneath the surface with a degree of both realism and imagination in such a manner as to engage current and potential players? How are the machination of my hags affected by a party that may or may not care to partake of their schemes? DMs: How do you feel about the writing of original plots for DnD? And what drew you to DMing specifically?&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;I DM, so that my hags have someone to play with.&quot;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aeolius, post: 4591201, member: 2072"] [B]What drew you to roleplaying, rather than watching the endeavours of characters created by other people (on TV series for example)?[/B] To be fair, "watching the endeavours of characters created by other people" could also include reading books. As children, we are all role-players; cops-n-robbers, cowboys and indians, pirates, knights, superheroes, and more. Some people choose to grow out of such games, others do not. D&D is a tool for collaborative explorations of our imaginations, nothing more or less. Some use their imaginations for wargaming, some for interactive story-telling. D&D can be used as a commonality for both. Role-playing, in it's loosest abstraction, is simply interactive television. Instead of watching the show, we participate in it, mold it, and change it to our liking. Can one role-play in a game of WoW? Of course you can, but it isn't required. One can role-play while playing solitaire, for that matter, but best not to do so out loud. ;) [B]What aspect of roleplaying do you enjoy the most? (Escapism? Creating an original character? Being able to tell a collective story? Doing things you're unable to IRL?)[/B] All of the above. I see role-playing/D&D as a collaborative work of interactive fiction. I set the stage; creating a world and populating it with creatures, encounters, traps, and treasures. Then the players enter, stage left, shaping our shared world with their characters. [B]How do you feel about the stories that are created through playing? Do you feel a stronger connection to them, or less? Do you feel you're part of its telling, or just an audience member to the DM?[/B] I have my own peculiarities. I am fascinated by hags and the sea. However I do not expect the same of my players. Therein lies the challenge. How to I describe the world beneath the surface with a degree of both realism and imagination in such a manner as to engage current and potential players? How are the machination of my hags affected by a party that may or may not care to partake of their schemes? [B]DMs: How do you feel about the writing of original plots for DnD? And what drew you to DMing specifically?[/B] "I DM, so that my hags have someone to play with." ;) [/QUOTE]

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