Quote from: Headless;982345Wait you think the OP was a troll becuase he posted something likely to get a negative reaction? Take a look through the threads, everything get a negative reation.  EVERY SINGLE THING.

Welcome to the internet.

Nah, because it was something that was pretty much 180 to he mood of the place like going to Tang and defending the Google memo. Now he might have been just naive or willing to put up with the flak for the chance o getting players. But it was similar to a "zebra" behavior, a form of trolling, See Biscuitarian's political posts, for example.

Edit: In fairness, he does appear to be a recent member and Arimus found his game online. So I'll say in light of that, his OP is most likely legit.

In-depth character roleplay?  Players who care about the story?  ...and he's running 4e?

Yep, he's trolling.

Quote from: CRKrueger;982351In-depth character roleplay?  Players who care about the story?  ...and he's running 4e?

Yep, he's trolling.

Hey. My 4e Loudwater game was pretty roleplay-heavy!
Admittedly we squeezed the roleplay in in between the 3-hour combats...

Quote from: Headless;982345Wait you think the OP was a troll becuase he posted something likely to get a negative reaction? Take a look through the threads, everything get a negative reation.  EVERY SINGLE THING.

Welcome to the internet.

True enough, the derailing of the Best RPG of 2016 thread is a great recent example of the silly levels of negativity here on almost any subject.

But we've had a number of new posters who seem to be crafted to get a response from the regulars here, I'm starting to suspect someone is datamining a new source of content for Grognards.txt.

Quote from: Nexus;982315The OP was upfront (and pretty detailed) on what he was looking for and what the game was going to be like. More of an improvisational acting set up with a premise that seems more set than most games. He wasn't like he was lying to anyone or misrepresenting his objectives. He wants people that can become immersed in pre-gen and are interested in doing so. Its how some people play. Some games assume you'll play pregens. Seems pretty straight forward to me just advertising for a game in a play style I'm not really interested in.

I agree. This is simmilar to some modules and some parlour game sessions Ive been in where you are handed a character to play. They have their own motivations and goals and its up to you to play them and further those goals. Some are pretty lose with it. So you are Johan, whos goal is to find Hitlers brain. And you are free to play him however you want. Others have you playing much more specific parts with defined personalities you have to stick to. But are otherwise free to go about your schemes however you please. Those can be pretty challenging.
Same types of approaches have been used with pregens for RPGs and LARPs. Everything from just a name, class and stats up to a detailed backstory and personality to play. Or even scripted things to do. Though Ive never seen the last.

I have my group, so this can be considered closed for now.

Sincerely, good luck with your game.