thread: 2005-06-02 : Immersion
On 2005-06-03, Ben Lehman wrote:
Damnit, I can't keep up with this shit.
There *are* seven day American LARPs, they are very different from the Scandanavian LARPs, and they are a very interesting experience in and of themselves.
When serious immersion players are talking about immersion, they are talking about something that:
1) Usually doesn't happen in terms of a true table-top game.
2) Requires stances that we *don't even talk about* on the Forge, like something you might call kinesthetic actor stance.
3) Is exactly a religious / ritualistic / meditative / reality-breaking / altered state of consciousness thing.
Everything I do here in RPG theory and RPG design is predicated on my conviction that I am the same kind of roleplayer as everybody.
(Everyone realize that this is something that I'm saying as a friend.)
You are wrong about this. cf GNS and other Matters of Role-playing Theory and other essays.
