Quote from: LordVreeg;768408They are good descriptors, and more importantly, it is a nice inclusion in the books.  Good to see them taking time to talk about the roleplay.

Quote from: estar;768419I generally require 1st person errr.. active roleplaying during the campaign particularly when interacting with NPCs. What I don't require is for the player to act as a distinct personae compared to their own. More power to them if they do this but the type of game I run works perfectly fine if a player roleplays the character as themselves in the setting.

I do this because I find it cut down on the meta gaming and the players are more apt to treat the setting as a living breathing place rather as a chessboard with the NPCs as pieces.

Quote from: LordVreeg;768443Also, and this is advice as much as truth...
The PCs mirror the GM, often, in terms of how they approach this.  When the GM describes then talks to the PC in first person, the Player normally does the same.  And the same is true in the opposite.  
Players take a lot of their cues from their GM.  In almost any case, if there is something wrong or 'off' with your game, look to yourself first before blaming the PCs.

Quote from: jibbajibba;768468Yeah and as a DM if your players adopt the way you interact and play things through their PCs well you could reward that behavior with some small token

Quote from: dragoner;768470Like say an inspiration point?

Quote from: LordVreeg;768471I'll bite you.  I swear I will.

Quote from: dragoner;768473lol

I take it you don't like that mechanic, but it really just names a process that has been around for years; in the old days, we called them luck points.

Quote from: LordVreeg;768478http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?t=30020

You have me right.  I, personally, don't like mechanics that actively push a player away from the IC perspective.  

But I don't bite people for it.  And I really think there are lots of ways of having fun playing RPGs, and that honestly, it's good for D&D to stretch and offer options.

Quote from: Emperor Norton;768487When describing actions, I switch between third and first person depending on whim.

When my character is TALKING though, I always say what he says. Its hard to get a personality down without first person talking to me.

Quote from: JRT;768399I remember something similar in Dragon 103 (I believe), one of the last articles Gary Gygax wrote for Dragon before his departure.  He had talked about Role Playing vs. Role Assumption, and that sounds vaguely like this--Role Playing is the active type while Role Assumption is the descriptive type.

QuoteFirst, it is important to remember that "role-playing" is a modifier of the noun "game". We are dealing with a game which is based on role playing, but it is first and foremost a game.
Games are not plays, although role-playing games should have some of the theatre included in their play. To put undue stress upon mere role-playing places the cart before the horse. Role playing is a necessary part of the game, but it is by no means the whole of the matter.
Role playing is similar to, but not the same as, role assumption. The latter term is generally used to identify the individuals acceptance of a part which he or she could actually perform. While a child might play the role of a parent, an adult would assume that role when dealing with his or her children.
This distinction is important in the context of gaming because of the stress now being placed upon role playing. Too much emphasis in this direction tends to make playing out an adventure more of a childrens "lets pretend" activity than an action-packed game which involves all sorts of fun, including the playing of a role but other fun aspects as well.

Quote from: Spinachcat;768524The one way of roleplaying is the true and proper path, laid down by the righteous as how we should all play, every game, in all ways.

The other way of roleplaying will destroy the hobby and marks you as an enemy of all that is worthy and good.

Choose carefully...