Scott Ryder 'BroRyder' (Official Thread)

They are two characters who have a near identical background and are the same race thus the same basic viewpoints, so no your example is not a good one. And the moment we choose one to play that one should be a clone of the other should we choose them. The one who is a NPC can have a different personality, but when they are the player character the only one who should have control over personality is the player and all options should be available regardless of sex. 
And once again I answer, if it involves personality yes I would have issue with them having variation in dialogue. That should not be predefined. 

Are you a single child? Anyone with a sibling will tell you otherwise.

I was raised by the same parents, grew up in the same household and culture, went to the same school, but I'm a totally different person than my siblings and I have different relationships with my parents and each sibling. 

You are one of two fraternal twins, two siblings that happened to be born on the same day. You are not the same people, you do not hold the same viewpoints, and you have different personalities.

You keep insisting two different humans should be the same person. 

When both can be serving as an avatar for the player, they should be when selected for that.

Ok. You can either be Sara or Scott. In the same manner, you can either be a Human or a Qunari. Should they have the exact same personalities with zero variation in responses given that they can both be potential avatars but have different parameters?

This was already in the twitter thread. Do we really need it to spread by posting it in other threads as well? Let it die please.

If it belongs in both threads I'll post it in both threads.
Let the just scroll past convo commence again.


You people need to chill, or learn to fucking scroll.

Having several options makes it much more interesting. Imagine you would play as a Qunari and could only be stoic, since the Qun pretends that. This would limit your role game experience pretty much. It would be very exciting to experience how the world responds to a sarcastic Qunari. Such experiences are lost when you have a given personality. You could only experience one side, not the other. And it would not be the same to be a sarcastic human, because a sarcastic human is differently seen by the world than a sarcastic Qunari. Something would simply be missing. This is the kind of limitation, I don't want to see in a role playing game.

Your sibling remains in the game. They have their own background so that they can be developed. Does that background suddenly disappear when you play them?

Honestly you're being very pedantic by calling it a restriction. Nothing is being restricted. Your dialogue merely have different inflections to accommodate being a different person.

I know our sibling remains in the game. I have said several times that when they are a NPC they can have all that. Are you even reading my posts since there is no way you could have missed that? 
Yes, that should disappear when you play them because they are no longer their own character, they are your character and stuff like that should be up to you. 

Yes, there are things being restricted. One of the most important parts of our character's character is being restricted. The player should be able to choose what inflections/personality/tone/etc that their character can express rather than that being out of the player's hands. When they are the player character, they are not a different person they are the same person: you. 

So when you pick a Human, they stop being a Human because they're the avatar?

Different background knowledge and different socialization is however not the same as different personality. If you play as a Qunari, you should be able to question things, despite the different socialization you recieved. You can also see this among people in authoritarian states. There will always be people who question the system. They will not show it openly, but the other way of thinking is there.  Why should it be different with a Qunari?I f you do not have this option to question the Qun or to behave differently when you're not seen by other Qunari (for example if you're in a country ruled by humans), you are quite restricted as a player. And why shouldn't there be a Qunari, who actually prefers the churchover the Qun...