12-03-2017, 07:28 AM | #31 |
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I've seen (in games I've played in, but not ones I've run) people justify the most disruptive actions by saying they are just playing their character realistically, then get upset when anyone else plays their character's realistic response to it. In D&D, that sort of behavior seems to be the default assumption of chaotic neutral, so if I ran that game (I don't, but if) I would be very reluctant to allow that alignment.
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12-03-2017, 07:44 AM | #32 | |
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12-03-2017, 08:02 AM | #33 | |
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The first player complained about this not being appropriate, because he was just playing his character as he had defined her. The second player said that he was playing HIS character as he had defined her: as someone who was morally opposed to theft and who didn't want a teammate stealing during missions. The argument lasted for months, because the first player simply couldn't get the idea that his character didn't have "PC immunity."
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12-03-2017, 08:14 AM | #34 | |
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12-03-2017, 08:24 AM | #35 |
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Wait, people actually expect PC immunity? I mean, I know that you cannot tell players how their characters will react, that it part of their RP, but their characters are supposed to benefit and suffer according to their actions. If a player steps in with their character to punish the character of another player, it just means that I do not have to do it as GM.
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12-03-2017, 08:32 AM | #36 | |
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You absolutely can constrain how players will RP, in many (probably most) gaming groups.
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12-03-2017, 01:10 PM | #38 |
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That's an argument, but it's not the argument that the player advanced. He was arguing that the other player's character should not do anything at all to prevent his character from doing what he chose to have her do.
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12-03-2017, 03:05 PM | #39 |
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This is a great thread. I'm really enjoying the little hints and implications about how people have really different expectations and standards when it comes to RPGs.
I've thought about this before: our hobby is really exceptional in its insularity. Over 20 years, I've played with about 25 people total, aside from a handful of one-shot convention games. That's all the people I've ever seen play a roleplaying game! An amateur jazz musician has heard hundreds of people play jazz; a soccer player's seen hundreds of people play soccer, etc., but a roleplayer has a sample of peers roughly an order of magnitude smaller, and a sample of individual performances (game sessions) maybe two orders of magnitude. We have these little, largely separate pockets of roleplaying, like isolated populations of a dispersed species, where only once every couple of generations does somebody move from one population to another and mix up the gene pool a little. And they grow really distinct from one another, on top of the founder effect of any given local rpg scene having usually been started by some specific couple of guys who happened to buy D&D long ago. Nowadays, of course, with podcasts and livestreams and whatnot, that's bound to change - people starting out today are likely exposed to and influenced by the playing style of many groups they'll never interact with IRL. That's another interesting question: what are traditions or habits that are going to spread, what's going to change. I hope there are some anthropologists or folklorists or sociologists working on documenting this stuff.
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