thread: 2006-05-25 : System and character sole-ownership
On 2006-05-30, Joshua Kronengold wrote:
Sure. The games where this isn't true tend to be one of:
Games where the players don't discuss the characters' internal states, so "really" ends up being, say "you've lost all your paladin powers; sucks to be you. Want to atone and try to read my mind some more?" when/if it shows up.
Games where the logistics are such that nobody else can really check your roleplay—LARPs are more or less what I'm thinking; with a 1/10 GM/player ratio and distributed immersive scenes, there's much less chance for someone to mess with your internal image of your character. They may try anyway, but the interaction is a lot more complicated.
