Best Role-playing Quotes

"No amount of role-playing, storytelling, or immersion is worth harming the goodwill, respect, and trust between your players at the table."

"One of the greatest moments, and as a DM one of the most rewarding moments, is when in-character banter starts to occur between the players at the table."

"Having a good flaw is really what makes the drama come out at the table. I encourage everybody to give in to your flaws and play them up rather than to play them down."

"If you come up to me on the street, I will roll a D20 because I will probably have one on my person. If you get a 20, you get to kiss him."

"I'd like you to charge with your hippo, your hippo is going to have advantage on this attack roll because he's surprising these ghouls."

"With a critical hit, Wayne, you take your own sword, drive it into your own stomach, and we literally see your spirit leave your body, fly over to the hippo, enter the hippo's body, and suddenly, not only are you in the body of the hippo now, you wake up and you can do all the things you could normally do. You can talk, you can cast spells, you can do everything. You're Wayne, but you're in the body of the hippo now."

"I'm super excited to introduce you to the world of Vampire the Masquerade."

"Blending first-person roleplaying with immersive sim design, the series has championed player choices that have tangible mechanical impacts on the player’s experience."

"I'm very much the sort of person who likes to absorb the world and even like role-play a little bit."

"This game's being designed with so many great RP features to really add that extra level of immersion."

"It's really interesting to explore the world as your character and to sometimes do things that you as a person know are wrong."

"Everyone deserves the fun of playing in those fields, of being the hero or the villain."

"The dream to take the tabletop role-playing experience and recreate it in video game form seemed to become a dream of the past, but not anymore."

"The swashbuckler rogue really stood out to me as being able to build on that charisma element and bring to life that fantasy of things that we've seen in popular culture like Zorro or The Princess Bride."

"Warlock is probably, scratch that, not probably, Warlock is to me the most conducive class to roleplaying."

"You do not have to sing or perform at the D&D table in order to play a character who sings or performs."

"Playing a tiefling is an invitation to explore the redemption arc."

"This has been a look at playing tieflings in Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition."

"We're basically you and I are now going to engage in a very giant LARP."

"The role-playing of the character's flaws and unique traits actively enhances the strengths of the medium, the actual storytelling element, even when it goes against the mechanical ideal."

"Cyberpunk... is a very violent world, but you're role-playing your character. You can choose to play the whole game without killing a single person."

"With it being a role-playing game, you want there to be decisions that matter."

"Sometimes, like this robot and this character that I did, talking with them, I started remembering who I was before."

"I cannot wait till I can get some type of police mod and pull over all these people that have just been asking for it."

"Animal Island is a role-playing game where you get stranded on a beautiful deserted island."

"Being a tank isn't as popular since they don't deal damage, but this is the story of how he became the strongest."

"When I wear the Spider-Man mask, I become brave and strong."

"The concept of party comp mostly shows up in games like D&D, where it's common for players to balance the character they want to play with the problem-solving role the party might need them to play."

"War Dragons is definitely one of my favorite role-playing games because in this game you get to play as the dragon destroying everything in your path."

"I believe the fighter has good role play potential and doesn't have to just fight things."

"I build ultra optimized, heavily min-maxed combat characters and then use them as almost purely role play characters."

"I'm Sherlock Grant and you're Dr. Watson, played by Robert Downey Jr."

"Hello there. My name is Matthew Mercer. I am the dungeon master of Critical Role."

"Fallout 4 fails at being a proper role-playing game. It's still a decent enough game you can play on your own."

"Role-playing is put simply, playing a role like an actor would. An actor needs to know who their characters are before they can manifest them on the big screen."

"If you can really manage to get inside a character's head, you can really immerse yourself in their perspective, which helps you understand it."

"If role-playing were true reflections of your actual thoughts and values, then prisons should be full of people who played GTA V."

"The more ways that your character can express who he or she is and what he or she would do in the world, the better the role-playing experience will be."

"This build pushes the limits of role-playing to create a truly unique experience unlike any other playthrough."

"Maria is now acting out things James's dead wife Mary might say before trying to seduce him in the middle of this underground labyrinth crawling with monsters."

"The world is a stage, and we are all actors."

"The shared fantasy phase feels like a role-playing game."

"As the DM, you can set an example by embracing being absolutely fucking ridiculous."

"We're all just nerds playing a silly game, so make sure your party feels safe being silly."

"If another player makes fun of someone's attempts, is dismissive or rude about their choices, or in any way makes another player feel stupid for making an effort, you need to quash that immediately."

"If you're not into inspiration, that's okay! Even just offering advantage when players really put an effort into their roleplay can encourage people to try."

"Players with the armorer role were the only ones able to craft armor, while farmers were the only ones able to farm crops to feed their civilizations."

"Flaws can make a character more interesting and more fun to roleplay, and to roleplay with."

"A true flaw is something more like a fear of heights, an addiction, greed. Usually these stem from a fear, or a false belief, or some kind of moral failing, think seven deadly sins."

"What would they have to overcome in order to achieve what they want? Picking a flaw that compromises their ability to achieve their goals is a great way to make sure that it comes into play during the game."

"Your character should also grow and change over time as their experiences during sessions make an impact on them."

"Your backstory needs to be packed with ammunition that your Dungeon Master can involve in the campaign."

"This is absolutely a game of role-playing and playing as maybe a two-handed axe wielding Sturgian Berserker or a Battanian Fian on foot, whatever it is, play the way you want."

"Anybody who looks at this and is inspired by the idea of a trickery domain cleric will find a lot of creative ways to play around with the elements here."

"I make a brief stop at the RepCon headquarters to flex my science skill."

"The light domain cleric is one of the most powerful builds for those who thought the cleric couldn't be a damage dealer."

"So go out there practice your best maniacal laugh and curb stomp your players in your fresh new disconcertainty sexy villain."

"Focusing on the character you're playing and not on heroic fantasy."

"It's a tactical game with a lot of role-playing aspects."

"Wisdom is animal handling, insight, medicine, perception, survival, and whatever else the DM allows you to add your proficiency bonus to."

"The essence of life, you found it, it's in there. Yes, I have the charm of Life, Sunny. Now what do we do?"

"I'm going my Patron is Cthulhu, I am going full chaos."

"It's these down-to-earth humanizing choices that your players make in this game and the consequences are real and the story is very real and it's really good."

"Starfield's an amazing game... it's just a perfect fit for those of us that love role-playing."

"Your character sheet is an imperfect translation of this personality, this person in the secondary world."

"All this great stuff, a bed roll, all that stuff, and you know in D&D we loved that stuff, that fantasy of looking through this list for the first time."

"He's playing the part of an adolescent girl. It raises red flags and concerns."

"We're going to be playing very high-level command; we will literally be Hitler playing as Germany."

"Voice protagonists limit your ability to role play a character."

"Communicate to your players what kind of DM you're going to be."

"Performing an NPC in a memorable way does not rely on an accent."

"My NPCs are typically there to... give them characters to react to and interact with."

"My goal with NPCs is to... make them plausible."

"The best thing an NPC can do is show the players themselves."

"The gold piece itself became this kind of symbol."

"Get into the heads of your NPCs and try to inhabit them as actual beings in your game world and you'll have a lot more success."

"Every character backstory I get, it's another cool facet and opportunity for you guys to pass a ball to me, and then to me, eventually in the story, pass it back to you."

"One of the things I do is I often quote characters from movies that I've watched a lot and my players have no idea."

"This was the first game where I felt like I was actually role playing in a game."

"Daggerfall triumphantly raised the bar for what computer role-playing games could be."

"I think Molly was such a very unique and interesting example of showing that you can play all sorts of personalities and archetypes with this class."

"So if you want to play a flame-wielding Knight that's looking to create his own ideal country then Persal is your ideal pick."

"You don't have to cheat at D&D... the game is more fun when you give in to the experience and let the dice fall as they may."

"Choose your life path: Nomad, Street Kid, or Corpo."

"Dishonored: better RPG than most. Choices, consequences, storytelling evolve naturally."

"It infuses a level of preparation and a part of the role playing experience I love into Skyrim. Allowing you to make more choices... to play well... outside of combat."

"It's ultimately glorified dress-up, but it's awesome."

"Feeling like an assassin while being an assassin in an Assassin's Creed game."

"I don't know how you cannot have fun playing Belle."

"The way of the shadow turns your character into a ninja, with really cool things like shadow step and the ability to turn invisible in an area of shadow."

"The way of the four elements is pretty much your ticket for an Avatar: The Last Airbender inspired monk or your Goku option."

"In playing a monk, you get to embrace all this really great philosophy, this striving to better yourself body and mind."

"These high-level characters once a D&D character reaches level 11 I consider them to be a living legend."

"The fighter is the Big Damn hero of Dungeons and Dragons. They're really one of the most courageous classes if you want to be that guy that's just gonna run out and face the horrible things that are coming at them head-on and not even flinch."

"Captain America is a great example of a fighter class because a lot of people look at the fighter class and they say, 'Well, they're not magical in any way, they're just supernatural powers.'"

"The battle master is the most popular of the fighter options. Maneuvers give me things to choose and look at and say, 'What's gonna be best in this situation?'"

"I feel like I've played the bad cop throughout this interview, and this is another question."

"It's like you can truly, you know, live out your fantasy of being a dragon."

"In this game, you'll play as a fallen Knight who has awoken in a decrepit tomb, working to recollect your name as you suffer from haunted dreams and fragmented memories."

"Every decision you make in this game with these characters is said to have dramatic repercussions on your journey."

"Our every choice will have an impact on our adventure; diplomacy, manipulation, infiltration, combat - all of these will be viable paths for you to achieve your goals."

"When you're acting a character, you go in generally a very big expansive game if it's Fire Emblem."

"Role-playing is easier when you can bounce the role-playing concepts off of other people at the table."

"My name is Daniel Lazarski, I'm an observer."

"The best thing Rey does is if kids come up to her, she will tell them that she's on a mission and she's hiding from stormtroopers, and then she'll take them around on an adventure with her."

"The gods are influential themselves and it might be that relying on that role-playing of presenting your party as the emissaries of the gods or the champions of the Gods is an important Cornerstone of how you win people over in social interactions."

"Plenty of choices to make, places to explore, dungeons to delve into, and stories to follow."

"Okay, so anyway, Cold Frontier Scout and uh, a Craig Carby, actually a couple of different guns."

"Fallout 2 is the only Fallout game in which you can become a porn star."

"Sometimes your player characters come up with way cooler ideas than you ever had."

"Sharing your vision and your story is the first step to figuring out if your vision is going to work with everybody at the table because this is a team game."

"Playing the character you want doesn't give you the license to be disruptive or to be an [bleep] at the table. You need to work in a collaborative setting."

"By having these conversations, maybe we can help guide you or some other folks to find that right match and have that really awesome and rewarding experience that we have at our tables."

"The setting is really the most important part of this sort of outline and campaign process."

"I think it's a safe space, especially when you have a group of friends that you trust at the table to step into the shoes of another person."

"It's a really great place to learn to fine tune empathy and self-esteem and really discovering the things in life that you appreciate and the things you want to change."

"Even when our game started delving into romantic territory, we had to check in with each other and have pow-wows and be like, is this OK? Are we into this?"

"We'd played for two and a half years, no romance on the stream. You know, I'm in love with you, right?"

"The monster slayer is a great homage to the classic image of the ranger."

"The abilities speak to that idea really well and they are useful in the idea of slaying your monster, but it doesn't have much else going for it."

"Having the city built on top of a dungeon offers a ton of role-playing possibilities because it's like what happens if the monsters get out?"

"I think having the city built on top of a dungeon offers a ton of role-playing possibilities because it's like what happens if the monsters get out?"

"Geralt is obviously one of the cooler characters that you can play as in a game."

"Role-playing isn't about acting, it's about making interesting decisions as your character."

"At the end of the day, this all comes down to understanding the motivations of your character."

"Role-playing is not about funny voices or being a professional actor."

"Deciding what you're most comfortable with as long as you are making decisions based on the character you created, you are role playing just fine."

"Wendy's being used as a prop because she has a show to do."

"The greatest appeal of me costumes is being able to play as a character you wouldn't otherwise be able to."

"Between levels 5 and 10 is when you really get to explore what your character is made of."

"D&D relies on a Dungeon Master to make good judgments and use their reason to be the arbiter of the game world."

"Honestly that best describes the world of Dragon Age as well a bunch of people dealing with a bad situation and some of them making it worse wherever the DM is at this game they just like watching you squirm and saying consequences good good."

"It's always made a little bit easier for me to try out new RPGs because I am at heart a GM."

"His need for freedom and his goal to reach new worlds I think lands him in chaotic neutral."

"All of the role-playing and adoption of these sort of surrogates to represent ideology are based on the right on history on reality in some sort of way."

"Stick in bear form until level 22, then shred comes online."

"The paladin is a fantastic class - full of dedication, courage, and purpose."

"You can mix and match, create your own fantasy, which is really cool."

"The biggest thing that it does is it leans heavily into its role-playing elements."

"You can be both a power gamer and a role player at the same time."

"One of the things I missed the most is when we got to be bad guys."

"We want hands down better dialogue, actual contribution, and role-playing opportunities."

"As the Romans, we have the Imperium Romanum origin."

"Hello everyone! Welcome to this D&D Oxventure! My name is Corazon de Ballena, the human pirate rogue, and I would like to be very clear on this point: the leader of the Oxventure Guild."

"It's true! The Dragonborn paladin, and I'm gonna just announce I'm the vice leader. I just decided right now."

"Welcome to this very special Oxventure D&D video, the last ever on Outside Xbox, but Oxford DND is getting a brand new home."

"As long as an entry point for a kid is framed as this is make-believe, this is fantasy, this is people who are, you know, know each other and are playing pretend and wearing costumes, and it's not okay to do it in real."

"Basil embodied the spirit of a chaotic good player, fighting the good fight in his own unorthodox way."

"I like the idea of sieging the castle and then killing the lord monster inside."

"Your responses will reflect Abel as a character and that I very much liked in the context of a role-playing game."

"Arcanum not only gives you the freedom to roleplay, it also offers a world in which you’ll want to get into the roleplaying spirit."

"A tiefling paladin who is seeking to redeem themselves."

"I want a game to make me feel like an evil genius."

"I kind of wish Desmond Llewellyn had come out and he'd been like, 'Uh, in this game you're going to play as Q during the movie Tomorrow Never Dies.' So it's just him slowly like walking to the Avis renter car place where he gives Bond the car."

"I explained, 'Listen, if you want to decide my character would just head down to the city the glass pool that's fine, you can do that.'"

"The world is under strife, and you as a player are gonna get to take the place of our heroes."

"D&D captured all of the magic of role-playing."

"The Amazon overall is just one of the strongest characters in the game."

"White Mages fulfilled an interesting role in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance."

"Fun is what it's all about when you're an elf pirate."

"Who would ever have thought mimicking characters from games and movies would wind up getting me out of trouble?"

"Piety is a powerful tool for directing a player-led campaign."

"The omen table answers the question of how to make divinations feel vital and useful."

"The adventure chapter is juicy with various tables and damn good advice."

"Every individual God gets their own section of what happened you know what is this God like if they're the villain of the campaign."

"The story has to be predicated on the dreams and hopes and desires and actions of the player characters."

"If your PCs are feeling hey, zero consequences, everything's groovy, it's all shenanigans."

"Trying out something like a dwarven drunken master monk can be a refreshing take on a fantasy classic."

"Running a published adventure showed me the ropes and let me focus on what was really important, which was running the adventure at the table. It saved me tons of time on campaign planning."

"Each session should allot time for inter-party role-play and shenanigans."

"Giving players jobs like these can really help bring everyone together under the common cause of running a really awesome game."

"So basically, we're choosing our character class."

"Playing Dungeons and Dragons with my friends... it's just such a wonderful playground of creativity and adventure."

"It's time to break out that spirit glue and apply your fake ears cuz we're gonna be diving into the race that every MarySue loves to play the elf."

"If I ever want to play a drow I always run a half drow with the magic power since anything that lets me circumvent that stupid sunlight sensitivity is super cool in my book."

"The artificer makes the party better, creates these things, fulfills the support role."

"Part of the fun of playing an artificer is that you get to control what magic items you have."

"The most RP Bethesda has ever put in their RPG."

"You ain't gonna get this kind of RP content anywhere else parts of the show man you know the best parts here's other two man I don't want to be a jerk or anything like that but we set the trance man we do all right we set the trends."

"AFK Arena is the number one idle RPG hero collector available for free on both Android and iOS."

"Telepathic feat: good, with fun roleplay applications and versatility in character creation."

"Legitimate teamwork... each different character calling out orders."

"RPGs aren't just about walking around finding things and fighting enemies. I like story-driven RPGs."

"The most important requirement of a role-playing game is to tell a story."

"The game never tells you that Giovanni is the gym leader until you go into the gym and actually see him for yourself."

"Dragons are certainly a thing in D&D, they are actually one of the D's of D&D."

"It's what my character would do isn't an excuse to be an asshole."

"Every nat 20 is diminished. Every success in the face of danger is diminished."

"It gives people an outlet to be important and glorious in this little world that we create together."

"Do what you want to do, do what you think this character would do."

"A rival is an incredibly effective way to facilitate change and a character Arc for your PCs."

"Will you join me, starving wolf? On that day, a young cub was taken from the battlefield."

"This was one of my favorite games of the year, very strong tactics game, a brilliant role-playing game, one of the better written better voice actor games I've played in a while."

"I think it's pretty cool. I was putting on like costumes and it kind of takes you away from real life, don't it?"

"In Mass Effect Andromeda, you're the Pathfinder, the ultimate adventurer in a vast unexplored galaxy."

"You're an actor in the movie, driving your new car or whatever it is that you desire."

"The demands of their patrons drive warlocks toward adventure."

"You gotta be able to play more than one character, Eric."

"The Theme is what holds the whole group together and holds the whole campaign together, and that character just simply didn't fit in it at all."

"Playing different roles to fulfill the great movie."