| From: | TopCat <topcat@******.net> |
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| Subject: | Re: Metamagic/gaming philosophies |
| Date: | Wed, 8 May 1996 17:18:05 -0500 |
>> play for roleplaying, and to me, that's always meant that character
>> development is important.
>Yay! Its nice to see other people with similar ideas as mine. In our
>current campaign (just starting), we had to justify everything. We had
>to write up a history of the char, family etc... we had to answer the
>"Twenty questions" in the SRII. Our contacts were to be defined people
>with names and personalities, not just stats on a page. Our eq had to be
>justified if it wasn't in the std SRII book. Sure, at first I didn't
>like it, but now that I think about it, it works really well. Sorry,
>I've been rambling... I guess I'm more of a role-player than anything
>else... heh heh heh...
Should see what we do... Aside from one group (which has a lot of people who
don't quite know the game well enough to do so yet) all of our characters
have a minimum of 5 pages of background (I'm talking typed here, not written).
In most this exceeds 10, in a few this exceeds 25 pages (in one over 45).
At first, this sort of thing was rewarded with tons of karma, so people
began writing up huge amounts of info on their characters. Which was great,
but a few of us became really powerful really fast (actually just really
in-depth as most karma was spent on background skills, and appropriately so)
and the rest moped along and complained because it wasn't their thing to
write like that.
So it got limited to 2 karma per page (30 karma max). You could write as
much as you wanted and it was encouraged that you did, the reward was still
there and all was cool even it is is for less karma. Now it's at 15 max
karma award (1/page up to 15) and it hasn't detracted any from the amount of
background we put out. If I don't feel myself wanting to write a ton about
a character, then I know I won't want to play him. The more experienced
gamers of our groups feel the same.
Anyway, I felt like I might've been bashed there for not providing
background for characters or demanding it and decided to throw out my two
cents. I won't even GM characters without written-out in-depth backgrounds.
Most importantly, we stick to those backgrounds and play the character based
on what we've created. More than once I've seen characters with long,
intricate backgrounds that end up playing like a character that could never
be the one they described before.
So just because I favor equality in the game doesn't mean I don't roleplay
or that I don't ask for it. How anyone could assume that equality in the
game meant this is just short of ludicrous.
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