thread: 2005-03-18 : Audience?
On 2005-03-19, Jasper Polane wrote:
I guess my definition of "audience mode" in a RPG is "being spectator of (and possibly contributing to) other people's play." To me it doesn't really matter if your character is in the scene or not.
To me, being engaged actually is necessary for audience, even if you're not contributing more than "Cool!" A player that's not engaged is effectively removing himself from play.
I had a player once who always "went out for a quick smoke" whenever his character was not in the scene. As a result, he wasn't even engaged when his character WAS there. Audience, he was not.
