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Pure role-playing vs team work

Started by Varaj, March 06, 2006, 11:54:09 AM

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Gunhilda

#30
March 07, 2006, 11:52:17 AM
We are tired of D&D games where the characters would have no reason to ever even speak to each other, much less try to work as a team.  We have no desire to contrive a reason for them working together.  If the players insist on playing an angsty good drow outsider, a paladin, a samurai, and a tinker gnome, the players can damn well come up with a reason why they are working together.
 

BillyBeanbag

#31
March 10, 2006, 09:38:29 AM
I must be lucky to play with a group who tries to find those kind of connections up front in a game. Often the GM will let us know in advance to find a connection to at least one other player in the game before the start of play. Other times a character concept will make another player say "hey, that's cool maybe we worked together in the militia last year in the goblinoid incursions! or something like that.
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eCK0

#32
March 10, 2006, 09:51:32 AM
The way I see it, it's very much like real life.  You can't try to make a character who is completely independant with no flaws.  You have to accept that each character is going to have disadvantadges and work together with the other players to make a well rounded team.
 

obryn

#33
March 10, 2006, 01:24:26 PM
The "organization" game structure goes quite a ways towards getting players who have a reason to be working together.

For my CoC game, I was up-front with the players.  (1) Everyone now works for the Order.  (2) Something happened to them, or they're crazy enough, that fighting supernatural threats for a living somehow seems like a good idea.

I like my players' characters to be pretty team-oriented, but intra-party conflict is a big part of what makes role-playing fun.

-O
 

Maddman

#34
March 10, 2006, 01:42:41 PM
I'm pretty tolerant of conflict and drama.  I see my job as creating and facilitating drama, if they players are going to do it for me - hey, less work for me.  There is a breaking limit though.  While PCs should have a lot of freedom, that should not include the freedom to drive the campaign off a cliff.

In my Buffy game for instance, I presume that when the PCs are confronted with the Supernatural they're going to want to do something about it, not just pretend it doesn't exist.  If they do, well that player probably needs to make a new PC.
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