Characters: Using Characters in role plays have advantages and dis advantages, on the plus side it serves as a better focus point and helps bring the role play to life and helps with better visualization and connection, They take on quarks trade marks and personality traits,and it is those very things which can work on the negative factor, Well my character wants this or wants that, and that in turn causes a great deal of the situations we are discussing here, A Character is a beneficial to the role play it adds substance and believability to a role play there fore its beneficial to the role play and to all involved in the role play, But when that character becomes demanding and starts wanting everything its own way then it is no longer a beneficial tool to the role play it becomes a problem which does the exact opposite and becomes the destroyer of a role play arguments break out and situations become heated, it is for this reason above all else that people need to learn not to let the character totally control the role play, But to always remember what the whole root of the role play is.
Example lets take Baby sitter vore example in this example we have two primary objectives The female playing the part of the babysitter who has one goal to swallow and to digest a kid, while the person playing the part of the kid is to be swallowed and digested, When you look at it from that perspective the role play is very simple and straight forwarded and if you stay with that general guideline there should be no problems, But when you bring in a character who has all kinds of personality traits and wanting everything its own way then you have a recipe for nothing but trouble...
as far as the dictionary's example of role playing lame at best and most likely created by someone who had not real concept of real role playing is all about, Real role playing in a nutshell simply means to become that which you are role playing to the point where you the player actually experience it, the best example I can give it to think back when you had your last erotic dream and how you were a total part of that dream that's pretty much the goal of real role playing to attempt to make so real it becomes real anything else is nothing more then words...
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