thread: 2006-03-22 : Mechanics and Flinching
On 2006-03-22, Brand Robins wrote:
Emily,
By outer limits I mean things like Vincent's "Joshua and Ben conspired in play to confront me with a fact of my own personality; their contributions to the game made it into fiction that criticized who I am."
That's pretty extreme. (Though his recounting of the linked AP is less harsh than he makes it sound above. I'd love to hear more detail there, actually.) I'd also wonder about Ben and Clinton's aforementioned Dog's game.
Anything in which you are commenting on the other player as a person (directly) rather than on the story or situation is right up to the edge of what I'm going to go with in RPGs.
As for the second issue: Yes, but not in games. I have, in dojos, controlled therapy sessions, and ritual spaces seen people learn to deal with issues by using a formalized (and often externally imposed) system of interactions who over time became able to deal with things without that system.
