thread: 2010-06-14 : A Bit of Hardcore
On 2010-06-17, Simon C wrote:
"I don't really know why the PC decided to do it"
I've been thinking about this recently. Is this a thing you can know? Does anyone have an authoratative answer to this question?
I guess the way I play, and the way I think about characters (and myself) is that there's no real authoratative account of why a character does a thing.
If that was my character who killed his mum, and you were like "I think he really did it because she knew what a screwup he really was." I'd be like "Yeah, that makes sense to me" or "Huh, I don't see it that way." But I definitely wouldn't be like "Yes, you're correct" or "Nope, he doesn't think like that."
Characters aren't real. They don't have thoughts and feelings, and so we can't know what those thoughts and feelings are. We can only interpret their actions (maybe the same is true of real people? Skinner thought so).
But maybe this is about how I play games? Maybe other people feel like they have authority over what their characters are thinking and feeling.
Super tangent though. Maybe I should take it to my bloog?
