What do BG members want in a campaign?

[BRP]

I might consider starting a campaign online using the 4e rules(very easy to pirate the Player Handbook if you can't afford it or not sure if you want to make the investment. However, that's not what this thread is about. I want to know what BG members look for in a game.

Basically do you look at the game as tactical battle? A way to express your inner creative spirit in the form of an avatar? To roleplay out scenarios/with other people/the DM? Something else? All of the above?

Basically how I like to run my campaigns and my personal preference as player is hybrid of both metagaming/tactical appeal and roleplaying. More over I have little problem with favoring one or the other for the sake of the players. I tend to like the periods of time in town where you investigate why you are going to this dungeon or what's the deal with the town. Both town-based adventures and dungeon crawls appeal to me. So you could say I'm pretty fine with everything.

What's your interests?

[izembo]

good story, time in dungeons and towns, lots of just open world with some guidance as to where to go next. good challenging combats but if the story is fun to follow you hardly notice when you only had 1 encounter the entire session.

[Maguspk]

I like being creative with my character and finding out what works best, so I'm a mix between expressing creativity/tactical. (Wasn't there an MTG thing a long time ago about the three different players, Johnny, Spike and some other guy, who all enjoyed different parts of a game for different reasons?)

I don't particularly see the point in roleplaying to the bitter end like some people insist on doing especially if there's more of that than actual gameplay, otherwise it's fine.

[Bagel]

Interactive storytelling. I guess that counts as RP. Tactical fights are done so much better in computar games where you can crunch the numbers instantly.

Also I'd play but gdit I'm sick of DMing.

[Dmitry]

I like being completely submersed with what's happening, so a DM that's good at story telling is what I like most.

[Shadowstalker]

I obsess over character creation.

I also love good stories and difficult, (but not impossible) combat.

[Maxxthepenguin]

The ability to completely backstab everyone in my party for Lawful Neutral reasons

And don't give me that lawful neutral was removed in 4e bullshit

[Maguspk]

I was reading the manual and it mentioned like your party hates you if you choose an evil alignment. All I could think was, why the fuck would the people I was playing with fucking care what alignment I was, you'd have to be playing with some dumb cunts for them to honestly "hate" me for choosing to make my character evil.

Also, are you almost done with it BRP? I am pretty eager to do this.