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Renee
post Oct 27 2020, 06:06 PM
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Which do you prefer, First or Third person? I am mostly a 3rd person gamer for Bethesda titles. I'll switch to 1st occasionally, I'll do this while decorating or looking for something which is lost, for instance.

But here's the real reason I started this thread. I have this whacked-out theory, I wonder if there's any truth to it. For those who have played table games, especially long ago. There were two basic ways to approach table games.

-- 1). play-act everything, essentially you'd 'voice' your character.
-- 2). use lead figurines, such as these.

We used figurines around our table, back in the '80s. We'd see our characters at all times, just like seeing pieces on a Monopoly board. I think this has something to do with my preference for 3rd person. I wonder if anybody here was more of a play-acting type, and prefers 1st. Probably not, but I had to wonder aloud.

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post May 28 2021, 08:39 PM
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I am real surprised people attacked you @Pseron Wyrd. As I felt you were the best perfectly lenient and tastefully strict moderator I ever seen !

If you guys can't tell, I am kinda of a loose cannon, speak my mind, hate the way the new age trend of politically correct, feelings hurt, overly sensitive crowds direction is going. I'm too old school for that, AND I see the damaging pendulum swing agenda behind it, so I won't buy into it. That said I can indeed accidentally say some stuff that would be fine in the 90's (Al Bundy style) but might be considered offensive to these wimps these days. And yes therefore I have had my share of yelling at mods over the years -- BUT I say all this cause of this -

The story goes as such - I remember I mentioned how funny it was that the Summerset Isle continent kinda looked like a ran over cat. haha, cause it does ! Then after posting, I realized what year it is and there are lots of overly zealous cat lovers out there (I love cats myself, I'm just logical about it is all) and I was worried I might be flagged as some cat racist, hater, bigot or some other overused popular word.

BUT - good old Pseron Wyrd came in and laughed and added to it ! Something about a steam roller or something. And that's when I knew... this dude is cool af ! And all the time, he moderated perfectly. Things had to get out of hand for him to do something. He was tasteful about moderation. Not like them nuts that LOOK for something to be against the rules and somehow bend everything edgy to be too close to breaking the rules, etc.. He just did what should be done, and left alone things that were human and understood jokes and humor.

Anyway - I tip my hat to the great moderator Pseron Wyrd ! Who will go down in the hall of fame of moderators !

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Renee   First or Third person?   Oct 27 2020, 06:06 PM
Kane   Mainly 3rd with the occasional switch to 1st with ...   Oct 27 2020, 06:15 PM
mirocu   Feels like I've answered this before :P But ...   Oct 27 2020, 06:20 PM
Renee   Feels like I've answered this before :P I kn...   Oct 27 2020, 08:13 PM
mirocu   I couldn't figure out how to add one, which i...   Oct 27 2020, 08:16 PM
ghastley   Depends on the game: Arena and Daggerfall - first...   Oct 27 2020, 08:01 PM
Acadian   TES games are the only time I've ever had a ch...   Oct 27 2020, 08:53 PM
SubRosa   I played tabletop rpgs, and sometimes we used figu...   Oct 27 2020, 10:03 PM
TheCheshireKhajiit   I use third for looking at my characters mostly. I...   Oct 28 2020, 12:37 AM
RaderOfTheLostArk   Third person for the most part by far, but it vari...   Oct 28 2020, 01:06 AM
TheCheshireKhajiit   I would like to add that I’d rather play ESO in ...   Oct 28 2020, 01:27 AM
haute ecole rider   I've never played tabletop RPG games - mostly ...   Oct 28 2020, 02:35 PM
RaderOfTheLostArk   Something I just thought about that might be inter...   Oct 28 2020, 04:25 PM
macole   Hmmm, never thought about it before that the my pr...   Oct 29 2020, 05:35 AM
ghastley   Is it time to ask "Who's on first?" ...   Oct 29 2020, 02:07 PM
Renee   Thanks for you answers, folks. :cake: These are fu...   Oct 29 2020, 03:27 PM
Decrepit   My preferences haven't changed to any apprecia...   Oct 29 2020, 06:22 PM
Grits   Put me down for mostly third person. I use first f...   Oct 29 2020, 10:20 PM
Infa Red   I am the same as you Renee, oh and btw, great thre...   May 23 2021, 08:20 AM
Pseron Wyrd   I play exclusively in third-person (except for Obl...   May 23 2021, 08:54 PM
ikonomov   I play exclusively in third-person (except for Ob...   May 24 2021, 05:35 AM
Lena_Wolf   I'm with Pseron - 3rd person only, except wher...   May 23 2021, 09:35 PM
Renee   Nobody so far subscribes to my silly theory in pos...   May 24 2021, 01:19 PM
mirocu   There should be a poll. :unsure: *Hrrm* Shoul...   May 24 2021, 03:40 PM
Pseron Wyrd   You've ever played BG1, or just Shadows of Am...   May 24 2021, 04:28 PM
ikonomov   I played both. I prefer Shadows of Amn though. ...   May 24 2021, 05:47 PM
Adella   Hello everyone😁, Ah wonderful....My first posty...   May 24 2021, 06:24 PM
Pseron Wyrd   My first posty. Welcome, Adella!! :salu...   May 24 2021, 06:31 PM
Adella   Thank you for the welcome sweetie...Oh gosh, so ma...   May 24 2021, 07:23 PM
macole   Thank you for the welcome sweetie...Oh gosh, so m...   May 24 2021, 08:24 PM
ikonomov   Talking of which I must get this avatar pic thing...   May 25 2021, 03:18 AM
Infa Red   Nobody so far subscribes to my silly theory in po...   May 25 2021, 04:35 AM
Renee   I think I ate the last one. Being such a newb. ...   May 25 2021, 07:10 PM
Infa Red   Yikes, we're supposed to eat those things? :l...   May 25 2021, 07:53 PM
Renee   Welcome here, Adella, glad you made it over. I w...   May 24 2021, 10:48 PM
Adella   Thank you Renee, and more especially for sponsorin...   May 24 2021, 11:28 PM
RaderOfTheLostArk   I play exclusively in third-person (except for Ob...   May 25 2021, 02:37 AM
Adella   Thanks Renee.....Yum! We call them fish finger...   May 25 2021, 08:24 PM
Infa Red   No luck with the avatar thing. I copied a link f...   May 25 2021, 08:35 PM
ikonomov   Ikon...Nope...No luck with the avatar thing. I c...   May 25 2021, 09:28 PM
Lena_Wolf   I had the same problem - I even asked that same qu...   May 25 2021, 08:41 PM
Infa Red   I very much object to entering my phone number wi...   May 25 2021, 08:45 PM
Adella   Well my avatar is a png. I tried shrinking the fi...   May 25 2021, 09:36 PM
Lena_Wolf   I found that it was the length of the URL string t...   May 25 2021, 09:45 PM
Adella   The error msg keeps saying “not a valid file ext...   May 25 2021, 10:02 PM
Infa Red   The error msg keeps saying “not a valid file ex...   May 25 2021, 10:10 PM
Adella   Yay! At last...phew Avatar of me now shows up ...   May 26 2021, 04:20 AM
Infa Red   Yay! At last...phew Avatar of me now shows up...   May 26 2021, 04:39 AM
Renee   Your avatar pictures are all fantastic. :wub:   May 27 2021, 02:14 AM
Pseron Wyrd   Your avatar pictures are all fantastic. I think...   May 27 2021, 03:17 AM
Renee   And of course a woman with fangs is all the more ...   May 27 2021, 05:16 PM
Pseron Wyrd   how does it feel being able to post at a web foru...   May 28 2021, 04:55 PM
Adella   Pseron...You old schmooser, flattery will get you ...   May 27 2021, 02:20 PM
ghastley   I think we need to give you some moderating to do,...   May 28 2021, 05:33 PM
Lena_Wolf   And any time you want abuse, you have only to ask...   May 28 2021, 05:38 PM
ghastley   I'm not going to start an argument. https://w...   May 28 2021, 05:59 PM
Renee   I am real surprised people attacked you @Pseron W...   May 31 2021, 02:31 PM
Adella   Oh I absolutely must support every word Infa wrote...   May 28 2021, 10:08 PM
RaderOfTheLostArk   I have to say, it's a relief to to post as my...   May 28 2021, 10:54 PM
Adella   Raider: Qt. “Too bad you're not moderating ...   May 28 2021, 11:02 PM
macole   When in first pov do players adopt the idea that ...   May 29 2021, 01:34 AM
Infa Red   So, on point then. When in first pov do players ...   May 29 2021, 03:52 AM
Adella   First Person: You are in the game and see through ...   Jun 15 2021, 05:07 PM


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