Whenever I hear about D&D more often than not it seems like people go to great lengths to stay in character and roleplay
This is great and makes for some very interesting stories but I tend to find myself more interested in just going on an adventure with a group of friends, solve a few puzzles win a few fights, complete a few quests etc
I’m also a big fan of character optimisation and mechanics but get the feeling that can be frowned upon by much of the community
Difficult to describe what I mean here but as an example in baldur’s gate I barely roleplay at all, my character has no personality except for the fact they make the decisions I would make, but I find that more fun, not having to worry about what my character would do and just making the decision I want to make
I realise not having a fleshed out character in D&D detracts from the immersiveness of the story because the DM can’t weave your character into the story but at least at the moment that doesn’t sound too bad to me.
Just wondering if there are people out there who run lighter roleplay campaigns
Sure! I’ve run plenty of them over the years. It’s good fun.
It can be hard to get a group together that all have the same preferences, but you’d be surprised how many people want at least an occasional “hack n slash” session, even if they don’t want it every session.
I gotta say that I tend to prefer the more role play than roll play most of the time, even as forever DM. But I still enjoy just breaking open a random encounter chart and going ham, or pulling out my heroquest stuff for a more board game one-off session.
This is reassuring to hear
Don’t get me wrong I like a good story and I’m happy to roleplay as if I were in that situation and not metagame, I just worry sometimes that people seem to take roleplay very seriously and that scares me off a little not really wanting to or being able to keep up