From:	Bert Van de Merckt <Bert.VandeMerckt@****.be>
Subject:	Re: Roleplaying? Good? Bad? Indifferent? Don't care?
Date:	Tue, 14 May 1996 22:51:22 +0200

LOGGING V wrote:
> Sure putting up rules about how to roleplay is shit....
> BUT
> I'm a GM and there's nothing more terrible than munchkins,players without
> initiative,players who lack even the imagination to describe themselvel-let
> alone imagine what anybody else looks like etc.
> I think there is a certain justification for the discussion about roleplaying.
> Naturally there can't be such a thing as The Universial Codex of Good
> Roleplaying which many people would like to constitute,but a certain set of
> prerequisites is important for players <of one group>.Those who play next door
> may have an entirely different way of thinking about what's good or bad

BUT maybe you like to roleplay a lot, and just don't find any really motivated
players around you (or only a meager few (2)). Is it acceptable you deal with
the munchkins, the rulefuckers, the quiet ones, the bored girlfriends :), ...
and maybe _try_ to have fun???

It gets on your nerves after a while though. That's when you join mailing lists :)

Just my 2 belgian franks. (I hate that expression :)

Bert

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