Fair or Foul: Restricting Roleplay?

Here's a question dug from my GMing archives. In a previous modern occult campaign, there were two players, Dan and Sarah, that played two characters, Drake and Shayla. Dan was very much into roleplaying and being "in character", while Sarah found roleplaying awkward and preferred to refer to Shayla's actions in the third person. Prior to the campaign, it was established between Dan and Sarah that Drake and Shayla would be madly in love ...

Hot Button: Roleplay vs. Rollplay

Heh, that title alone should probably spawn 50 comments :-) In the early days of RPG when AD&D was king, my groups eventually crawled out of the dungeons and started running more soap opera style games. Rather than clear out an orc infestation, we were more likely to be found courting maidens (or men, if one of us were in "drag"), running fiefs, and forging alliances. This being AD&D ...

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