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From: jacob@chalmers.UUCP (Jacob Hallen)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: Multiple Characters per Player
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Date: Mon, 16-Dec-85 22:09:25 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 16 22:09:25 1985
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Organization: Dept. of CS, Chalmers, Sweden
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There are many different styles of play in Fantasy Roleplaying,
from Munchkin Montyhaul to involved political scenarios.
Most of the postings on this subject are in favour of letting
players have multiple characters.
I would like to defend the view of 'one player per character/
one character per player'.
If you play multiple characters you are most often involved in
fast, free-wheeling, lots-of-fun campaign. This is ok, but to me it's
not the ultimate way of playing.
With one character per player and a really good DM you don't play a
character, you ARE that character. This turns the game from being
mainly fun to being mainly exiting. The character is no longer
'my cleric', it's me. I have to save my skin, I have to survive,
if I take a risk I won't do it with the calculation 'I can always
roll up an other one', because I can't. 

If you have experienced being, instead of playing, a character you
will never want it any other way.

Jacob