Steve wrote:Whether it matters to you or not Rhifox, the first 2 sentences I quoted from the above, I also RP for, AND FIND, with my adventuring-focused RP. I may be reading you wrong, but it seems that you're implying I don't or can't share the same interests as you, the Player, if I don't allow ERP into my Game on BGTSCC.
I was not trying to imply that at all, and I apologize if I was giving off that impression. I was just trying to describe what I look for in RP, and why that leads me to feel the way I do on this subject.
I have to correct an implication of your own, though: I do adventure RP as well. Hell, it's the main reason I started up playing NWN again. The previous game I was RPing in focused too much on simple chatting and socializing. I came to NWN for the adventure, for being able to have my characters grow from their exposure to trying circumstances. I'd hope that people don't see my previous posts as some argument against adventure, because that isn't what it is. My only thing against adventure, is that I believe adventure is, like anything else, something that needs to serve a point in the story. If I'm in a dungeon, I want to be there because it will have some impact on my characters' stories.
The thing I want to stress, is that I don't view it as some binary topic, where you have only one or the other. I believe in having a
fuller range of experience, and that is what I argue for. I've been RPing and writing for almost all of my life. I've a degree in writing. When I consider these things, I think of what they add to the overall story, what they say about the characters. I like to explore all aspects of humanity in my characters, including their sexuality. While this doesn't always need to be RPed, and indeed,
usually doesn't (I again want to stress this... I do not at all believe that it is
necessary, and certainly
not something that should be RPed all the time), it is still something I think about when I develop my characters and something I feel is lost when OOC limitations are put in place. It is a
small loss, but still a loss in my eyes.
For me there are very few things that I'd view as too discomforting to RP, because I
want to explore the darker, grittier, horrifying side of humanity. Ironically, of the things I
do find very uncomfortable, one of them actually exists in someone's RP on this server. I won't speak against the person who does it, though, because I don't view it as my place to tell them what they can and cannot do in their RP, and my being bothered is not and should not be a concern for anyone but myself. It's also not something that anyone other than myself are likely to see any issue with.
PCs are not people, mate. They are fabrications and fantasy of Real People. There is NEVER any instance in which a PC thinks for itself, feels for itself, or makes autonomous choices—this is all Player, acting, and we as Players have/take this responsibility.
Acting, yes. I, for one, prefer to do
method acting. By getting into your character's head, feeling what they feel, living their life, you can give them a more convincing portrayal. By allowing yourself to feel the same emotions as the character, you better understand what someone in their position might do in response to various in-character stimuli. I mean, the first time I ever did drugs, or drank alcohol (two things that I had stayed clean of for most of my life), was because I had RP characters who were addicts and I wanted to able to better portray them by experiencing it myself. I'm quite active when I RP; I'm constantly getting up, moving around, acting out what they are doing. For me, the character does drive the story, because by letting myself feel their emotions I can understand how they will react to the situations they are in.
But, none of that was really the point here. The point was that who the player behind the character is shouldn't mean anything, because it is your character responding to the actions of their character. I don't care if the player behind the other character is a man, woman, child, the elderly, white, black, gay, trans, whatever. I don't care if their player is someone that I've had an argument with, or dislike. All that matters is who their character is, what that character is doing, and how my character would respond to it.
