thread: 2005-03-18 : Audience?
On 2005-03-22, Charles wrote:
As long as we are agreed that being audience can be an empowered position, without needing to be author, then I agree that we should work to make sure that our audience is an empowered (or at least engaged) audience. There is a pleasure in being audience. There is a pleasure in having audience.
Is there a difference between a scene that is witnessed only by its participants and a scene that has witnesses who are not involved in playing out the scene?
Of course, I think John's argument (as I understand it) to not dissect audience and author and IC and talk about them as seperate and contrasting things, but instead to look at the wholistic question of "what is the experience of being in a roleplaying game?" is one well worth heeding. I don't necessarily have anything useful to add along that direction at the moment, but I am still thinking about it.
