"You're a half elf? Really?" From the P.A. Podcasts

[Hussar]

...because they aren't playing up the stereotype of their race

HOLY CRAP. How many times do I have to repeat myself? Do people even bother reading? I already posted upthread a bit how you could portray yourself as a half-elf without resorting to a SINGLE stereotype. Not one. Not a single one.

Yet every bloody post begins with me somehow saying that everyone should play stereotypes.

WTF :[

 

[Thasmodious]

For what it's worth, Hussar, I've just seen this thread, read it, and agree with you pretty much completely, and identify with the elf problem. Have some xp to soothe your head bruises from banging against a wall for 11 pages.

Edit: You must spread some XP around before giving it Hussar again. Well, good intentions and 3.95+tax and I can buy a latte.

 

[Umbran]

No, Inyssius, I'm saying you're not roleplaying the character that's on the sheet. IOW, you aren't roleplaying as well as you could be.

I would venture to say that is better said as, "IMHO, you aren't roleplaying as well as you could be".

Let us be straight here - "role playing" is not a well-defined, objective thing. We here, all gamers, do not generally even agree on a definition of what it is! The ability to gauge how "well" a person undertakes the activity is entirely subjective.

There is no strong enough authority on what role paying is to pass judgment in general on who is doing it well. Gygax himself could not get everyone on board that there's only one way to go about it, so darn tootin' nobody here is going to be able to do it.

So, I'm going to strongly suggest that people stop talking as if they know the One True Way, and all other Ways are lacking, lesser, or insufficient.