Paradox: I like to roleplay. I'm a bad actor. At least, a bad improv actor. I don't do funny voices. No one, least of all me, is going to be convinced that I (a short middle-aged nerdette) am Fastlane (a tall male construction worker and part-time superhero). Nor do I want to be (and that's a whole nother paradox... #4, right now). PBeM solves most of this for me; I'm a much better author than actor (whether that brings me up to the level of "good" I dunno; at least my own writing doesn't make me wince, where my acting does). And yet... I like getting friends around the kitchen table and roleplaying. Not much more to this paradox, I guess. Except sometimes I wonder if my tabletop roleplaying would work out better if I narrated it third-person past-tense instead of trying to (verbally, anyway) act it out. I'm pretty sure it would be. -- Karen J. Cravens silver@phoenyx.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
