I, in turn, respectfully disagree with this. I think it's a perfectly valid way to play RPGs, but I don't think putting yourself in the shoes of the main character is necessarily the point. The point is that you're taking on a role. To always have to make decisions that you would personally make in that position is unnecessarily limiting yourself, in my opinion. I doubt any of us here are truly evil, so right there you miss out on all the fun content that results from making the more evil choices.Ulfros wrote...
I respectfully disagree. The point of a true RPG game is that you become one with your character, after playing it for a while. He is your avatar. I know many would disagree, but I for one wouldn't start a second character in a game without considering it an extra char for benefits OOC, or to see aspects of the game I could not with my "main".
I imagine a personality for my characters, then try to stay faithful to THAT, more than to what I would personally do. My main character is a sort of idealistic/naïve City Elf at the beginning, then gets a hell of an education over the course of the game. Although he shares some characteristics with me personally (he made mostly "good" choices, as I like to think I would do), he's not modeled after me. Then I have a power-hungry and arrogant mage who is most DEFINITELY not like me. The City Elf is my main character because I loved his story the best; not because he is me.
Now if we turn our attention to Hawke, well...we know absolutely nothing about his personality. We know he (or she) is a human, and that he lived in Lothering, and that he ran to Kirkwall at some point. None of that tells us anything about the PERSON. All these people claiming that Hawke is "pre-made" seem to be missing that point. We are free to shape and mould his personality to our whims...surely that is the essence of role-playing.
Modifié par SirOccam, 12 juillet 2010 - 12:02 .
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