Does anybody here play D&D?
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Quote:Ugh, not to belittle your achievement (taking a look right now) But I have *always* hated the assumption that someone who wants to optimize their character automatically dosent want to roleplay. Wanting a character who dosen't get his butt handed to him by a CR 1/8 Arthritic Kobold does not imply that the only thing I care about is being a combat monster. Hell, the moment you decide as a player that "Hmm, I guess I'll put my highest stat in INT for this Wizard" your optimizing/roll-playing.

The two things have almost nothing to do with each other, and any deficiency on "role-playing" is on the fault of the player, not the system he uses.
I've always gone under the assumption that roll-playing meant doing a dice check for every little thing. Stuff like:
player: "I'm walking through the woods"
dm: "spot check"
player rolls d20
dm: "listen check"
etc. -- and you take about 2 minutes to walk 5 feet and realise you hear the wind blowing through the leaves. It's never had anything to do with how much a character is tweaked; whereas role-playing meant you spend time telling your story and the dm basically does a judgement call on whether they want someone to hear something or whatever.

On a side note, I used to be a part of a 3e campaign (several, actually) that was conducted via an AIM chatroom. Maybe if there's enough interest we might be able to start a casual one of those (i.e. meeting once a week for a few hours).
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Does anybody here play D&D? - by Taem - 07-07-2006, 01:48 AM
Does anybody here play D&D? - by --Pete - 07-07-2006, 05:47 AM
Does anybody here play D&D? - by pakman - 07-07-2006, 12:33 PM
Does anybody here play D&D? - by Taem - 07-07-2006, 05:26 PM
Does anybody here play D&D? - by Urza-DSF - 07-07-2006, 05:54 PM
Does anybody here play D&D? - by Mithrandir - 07-07-2006, 09:11 PM
Does anybody here play D&D? - by pakman - 07-07-2006, 09:24 PM
Does anybody here play D&D? - by Wyrm - 07-10-2006, 05:35 AM
Does anybody here play D&D? - by Taem - 07-10-2006, 07:22 AM
Does anybody here play D&D? - by Urza-DSF - 07-10-2006, 10:06 AM
Does anybody here play D&D? - by Xiuhcoatl - 07-10-2006, 03:00 PM
Does anybody here play D&D? - by pakman - 07-10-2006, 03:23 PM
Does anybody here play D&D? - by Wyrm - 07-12-2006, 02:58 AM
Does anybody here play D&D? - by kandrathe - 07-12-2006, 03:44 AM
Does anybody here play D&D? - by Taem - 07-12-2006, 03:48 AM
Does anybody here play D&D? - by pakman - 07-12-2006, 12:37 PM
Does anybody here play D&D? - by Xiuhcoatl - 07-12-2006, 07:04 PM
Does anybody here play D&D? - by Wyrm - 07-13-2006, 07:51 AM
Does anybody here play D&D? - by Urza-DSF - 07-13-2006, 12:19 PM
Does anybody here play D&D? - by pakman - 07-13-2006, 01:29 PM
Does anybody here play D&D? - by pakman - 07-13-2006, 02:09 PM
Does anybody here play D&D? - by Zarathustra - 07-13-2006, 07:45 PM
Does anybody here play D&D? - by Wyrm - 07-14-2006, 08:40 PM
Does anybody here play D&D? - by Taem - 07-20-2006, 04:10 AM
Does anybody here play D&D? - by Taem - 07-20-2006, 04:38 AM
Does anybody here play D&D? - by Urza-DSF - 07-20-2006, 08:16 AM
Does anybody here play D&D? - by kandrathe - 07-21-2006, 04:37 AM
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