Do you really Role-Play, or do you Character-Assume?

JLV · 07-06-2018, 11:39 AM

That's been my experience too. In my original group, back in the '80s, we had one really good "actor" type and a couple of purely "tank" types, and one good "curmudgeonly Wizard" type, plus one utility outfielder who, while not as good an actor as our actor was, still could drift between archetypes pretty easily. As a result, we had two soldiers who thought with their weapons, one grumpy Wizard type (sort of like Belgarath before there was a Belgarath), a guy who played a pretty good rogue, and the actor who could do any kind of character (elf, dwarf, nobleman, dragon, whatever) and really get into it.

They actually made a pretty good team for just about any contingency you could imagine!

07-06-2018, 11:39 AM	#1
JLV Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Arizona	Re: Do you really Role-Play, or do you Character-Assume? That's been my experience too. In my original group, back in the '80s, we had one really good "actor" type and a couple of purely "tank" types, and one good "curmudgeonly Wizard" type, plus one utility outfielder who, while not as good an actor as our actor was, still could drift between archetypes pretty easily. As a result, we had two soldiers who thought with their weapons, one grumpy Wizard type (sort of like Belgarath before there was a Belgarath), a guy who played a pretty good rogue, and the actor who could do any kind of character (elf, dwarf, nobleman, dragon, whatever) and really get into it. They actually made a pretty good team for just about any contingency you could imagine!