I will try to post all my views on every post lately... this could take a while.
First, Heatar,
I disagree with your claim that you must play a different role then what you do in
real life. I believe that you can explore different facets of your personality in a
safe environment, and prehaps broaden your horizons.
I also think that you are able to grow beyond the world that you inhabit, depending
on what you put into it, and what you try to get out of it. And I would not recommend
playing any other game. Players who come from other games usually have a difficult time
adjusting to how different Avalon is from other games and demand that it comform to them,
instead of trying to learn something new.
Raphaim, you are right, the game does has to be taken as a whole. Fighters don't like to
farm or labour because it doesn't fit their roles, they are fighters, not labourers. Fighters
are the elite (think of the feudal system that grew in Europe) and the peasentry keep the
fighters in clothing and food. I don't think you'll find a single fighter who doesn't think
that people endlessly make commodities to be useless (other then on a social level).
Written by my hand on the 7th of Cloudburst, in the year 976.