a big part of the enjoyment of role playing for me is seeing my characters grow and change. If a character changes in a way you didn't anticipate, its part of the joy of roleplaying, and a sign that you are doing a good job of inhabiting your character.
I've been thinking (and yes it hurt ).Recently I read Shiff's post http://forums.layonara.com/general-discussion/256212-fessing-up.html, and well it got me thinking about the way we play and devolope our characters.It seems that there are two ways we can use our PC's. Do we remain faithful to the characters own personal devolopment or do we focus on our enjoyment? Simple put, if you had say, a netural good dwarven fighter that went through some dramtic unpleasent changes in their life, and the only logical out come was an alignment shift to true netural or even netural evil, would you do it? This can of course go the other way. With my own character Jehoram (netural evil corath weapon master) I have a particular series of events in mind, that if they ever occured IG, I would follow them up and start to shift his alignment back up the scale to NG. I would then of course retire the character and roll a new one (I avoid good characters the way most people avoid evil ones, call me old fashioned but I need major personaility defects to keep me interested :rolleyes: ).That said, we play this game for our own enjoyment, and some people (myself included) don't enjoy role playing characters a certain way. So I'm asking you, what comes first for you personally? Enjoyment or character devolopment? (Remember that there is no right answer here).
I'd never lose interest if I failed a quest or CDQ
(oops, mentioned that twice - maybe I have issues?)