thread: 2005-06-02 : Immersion
On 2005-06-03, Vincent wrote:
Ben: "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."
I'll grant this. I don't have anything to say about it. I'm talking about tabletop, pen and paper, sessions last a few hours kind of immersion.
My concern here is that dedicated tabletop immersion players are going to claim 7-day larp style immersion, as a dodge. Nobody better pull that crap. If you read my first paragraph at the top of this post and nodded, I'm talking to you.
(And hey, what I mean is that I'm not a better roleplayer with more choices than anybody else. If I can do it, I mean, then you can do it. Whether you want to is fine either way, choose door 1! But door 2's sitting right there, I'm not some kind of special just because I can hold a character and some dice in my head at the same time.)
