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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blair Goatsblood" data-source="post: 4934480" data-attributes="member: 29730">Ahh, I meant it more in a "having fun is a priority over method acting" manner.I'm not in a position to judge how good a job someone is doing portraying an imaginary being kinda philosophy. Regardless of a player's racial choice, some players will assume funny voices, come up with elaborate backstories and make their character come alive. Other players say stuff like "I negotiate with the Baron to release the prisoner" or "I flatter the fair maiden" and want to the name their character Bob...and there's nothing wrong with either kind of player.I'm judging someone on their acting skills, you fail as a "role player" at my table by being (OOC) disruptive, a jerk or a poor team player. If I have a friend who want to play, and I would enjoy their company at the table, if they want to name their characeter "Richard Marx" and describe their actions in a remote, clinical style, and they have fun, everybody wins.I don't find the non-role players detrimental to a enjoyable gaming experience, if anything, they do give the gung-ho ham roleplayers more spolight real estate to showboat in. And the non-role players will porbably enjoy watching that show more than worrying about how good a job they are doing of getting into the head of and talking like a freakin' frost nobbit in a made-up world.Beside, it seems to me that the better part of a character's personality emerges through play and the character's experiences. Although, I still can't get my head around there being a "right way to role play a half-elf", i.e. "I dunno, I was raised by humans in a human community and people treated me differently becuase it was that kind of society, I grew up pretty well adjusted and was going to be apprenticed to a glassblower before I started this adventuring thing. I guess that's why I don't act very "half-elven...""BTW, in my game there are no mechanical benefits to your racial choice, aside possibly making you a viable candidate for a sacrifice in carcosan ritual suicide. (with the exception of the Cactus Man character, butt hat was becuase the player found out about they existed on the planet and was really excited about having a cactus character)And in the game "Bob the Fighter" pulls his weight and is just as important as "Thandalial Feymarchwarden the Tarot Dancer." We do spend hours in sessions "role-playing," Bob the Fighter usually just shops via. equipment lists, looks at the maps, asks questions about the world, or interacts with NPCs in his gold ole' "I ask around the town about any rumors of dungeons, monsters or treasure" style.</blockquote>

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