>> You're an elitist bastard too. There's only one truth about playing
>> RPGs: if you have fun doing it, you are doing it right.
>
> Well, yes and no IMHO. The point of roleplaying games is to have fun (it's
>a game after all) *roleplaying*. Otherwise there is no reason to call them
>RPGs, no?
>
> If you play a RPG as you'd play a boardgame, or a wargame, you're not
>roleplaying, but you are... Boardgaming? Wargaming? If you and your friends
>meet each Friday evening to tell jokes you are not doing "true" roleplay,
>you are telling funny jokes.
>
Oh dear, why is this still going on?
<Graham proceeds to ignore his own advice, and prolongs it a little longer...>
I don't know about anyone else, but I find this whole "level 3 is better" "no no level 2 is better" crap very strange. The group I play with now, and every group I've played with for the past ten years or so, have alternated freely between levels 1, 2 and 3, occassionally touching on level 4.
I've run and played Runequest (and other rpgs) the length and breadth of britain, including national conventions, and never come across a group this isn't true of. And everyone seemed to have been enjoying it at the time.
I personally don't believe anyone does this - yes immersion in the character is a good thing, and highly enjoyable. But don't tell me you don't get a level 1 thrill when that desperate last ditch dice roll lands on 01...
Graham
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein
End of The Glorantha Digest V7 #467
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