A thing I noticed (with a diagram)
Aaron Baker:
Dan and Simon,
An experience I had in DnD, that I still struggle with.
I consider my wife to be a "better roleplayer," than I am, because she immerses herself in character, that said, the two best examples I can give are both situations she thinks she did "wrong," and because of them, she avoids joining more games with me.
The first was a warhammer fantasy roleplay, where she was playing a cleric who was new to adventuring. The DM described the dusty cobwebbed cave entrance, and shortly after entering, my wife decided that her character would sneeze from the dust. I thought it was great roleplay, but the other characters looked at her oddly, and she felt she had done something wrong.
The second time we were fighting giant rats, rat swarms, and the were-rats leading them. She entered a room, saw a lump under a pillow, and attacked it with her mace. Glass shattered, and the party got mad at her because they thought she smashed a potion (it was whiskey, worth 10 gold as treasure...).
In my opinion, in both cases the other players were meta-gaming, but because my wife was new, she didn't realize she was right and they were wrong. I still can't convince her of this...
Aaron
greyorm:
Aaron, neither your wife nor your friends were "wrong": both simply have very different styles of play. Your wife was playing according to one style, one with specific priorities of play that your friends did not share. You might be interested in GNS and Other Matters of Role-playing Theory, which is an older overview of this topic.
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