>I do think that sometimes things can be said IC that might be
>misconstrued as complaining about game mechanics, but really
>might be very much a person's roleplay, though. An example of
>that would be someone who plays an envious character.

Well, right. Keep in mind from my point of view I'm able to check out a character's sphere and role, so I'll have a pretty good idea if this is supposed to be the case or not.

>This one I think depends a lot on how long a person has been
>playing CF and their own personal preferences. Characters
>should not be cookie cutters of each other that's for sure.
>But if someone really enjoys playing a particular
>class/cabal/religion/race...or whatever. Or if they don't
>really like playing the goody...or the bad guy...why should
>they do that just to please an IMM?

You certainly don't have to. I'm just saying: That kind of RP versatility impresses me. It is boring for me, as an immortal, to realize that a given player is playing virtually identical characters ten characters in a row. There are people who have played for five years or more, and every single character will exhibit some identical and very distinctive personality trait.

If you want to play the same race/class/religion for a dozen characters in a row, you're certainly welcome to do so -- but at the same time, by character three or four, I'm certainly welcome to pick someone that I find more interesting to offer opportunities for quests, interaction, etc.

>This is especially true for someone new to CF ...they may want
>to play a particular class over and over again until they get
>a really good handle on how to play it.

I agree with you to a point. . . I do think you will learn more by sticking with one class for a few hundred hours than you will by constantly rage deleting on first PK death in the teens and picking something else. At some point, however, I think you will learn more even about how to play that first class by trying some different things and seeing what others have to throw at you.

This is really only so much about class, anyway. Some classes have more narrowly defined roles, but it's very easy to make two warriors, thieves, invokers, bards, etc. whose roles are night and day to each other.