thread: 2009-06-17 : Secrets
On 2009-06-18, Vincent wrote:
It means that collaborative fiction is, as far as I'm concerned, the essential element of roleplaying. My theory of roleplaying centers on the shared fiction, treats it as primary and fundamental, and considers all other concerns secondary (or less).
Others' theories might make the individual roleplayer's experience central, for instance. I consider the individual roleplayer's personal experience to be incidental, generally contributory but not the point, and at worst a distraction from the real matter at hand.
Like, Brand mentions things that are "part of the fiction that [aren't] part of the shared fiction," and I get all narrow-eyed. As far as I'm concerned, the shared fiction is all I'm talking about, all I've ever been talking about. Obviously what I'm saying, whatever I'm saying at any given moment, doesn't apply to any non-shared fiction. Why would it, and who cares?
That's what it means.
