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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 9150293" data-attributes="member: 71699"><p>Effectively and actually, I am not. My definition is perfectly concrete: it defines exactly what it is to be diegetic. Most importantly, it incorporates the voluntary and performative nature of TTRPG play. Definitions that fail to do that are indeed mushy, as they cannot speak to an abundance of putative "edge cases". Furthermore they are stifling: skirting a pretence that everything that will be known about TTRPG is known today.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I currently prefer to work from my own experiences at the table, and video accounts of play such as the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULiAd5jO_dI" target="_blank">Blinding Light series by Jeremy Strandberg for Stonetop</a>. Written accounts typically have a paucity of detail (see the account of BitD in your last few posts) and are quickly quibbled (see responses to [USER=7025508]@Crimson Longinus[/USER]'s account in this thread). While some groups making videos are visibly playing to the camera, there is such an abundance of material that it's possible to find useful documentation of play. John Harper has recorded almost <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQQW3Ew6DKsN0-Iv7n7144RbqKKRneqHH" target="_blank">fifty videos of BitD actual play</a>: recommended viewing! As an exception, [USER=42582]@pemerton[/USER] writes up well-detailed reports that I count equivalent to video. Unless you're posting something as extensive as <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/torchbearer-2e-actual-play-of-this-awesome-system.691233/" target="_blank">their Torchbearer 2 write-ups</a>, I don't count it of any special value to analysis beyond testimony to subjective experience.</p><p></p><p>I'm happy to identify actual play videos as evidence. The two I already referred to are fair examples, and I can suggest some for a trad game if that would also be helpful. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@HostileWorkEnv/videos" target="_blank">How We Role</a> has some excellent actual play videos: including Burning Wheel run by Luke Crane and Apocalypse World run by Vincent Baker.</p><p></p><p>EDITED Added links to videos.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 9150293, member: 71699"] Effectively and actually, I am not. My definition is perfectly concrete: it defines exactly what it is to be diegetic. Most importantly, it incorporates the voluntary and performative nature of TTRPG play. Definitions that fail to do that are indeed mushy, as they cannot speak to an abundance of putative "edge cases". Furthermore they are stifling: skirting a pretence that everything that will be known about TTRPG is known today. I currently prefer to work from my own experiences at the table, and video accounts of play such as the [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULiAd5jO_dI']Blinding Light series by Jeremy Strandberg for Stonetop[/URL]. Written accounts typically have a paucity of detail (see the account of BitD in your last few posts) and are quickly quibbled (see responses to [USER=7025508]@Crimson Longinus[/USER]'s account in this thread). While some groups making videos are visibly playing to the camera, there is such an abundance of material that it's possible to find useful documentation of play. John Harper has recorded almost [URL='https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQQW3Ew6DKsN0-Iv7n7144RbqKKRneqHH']fifty videos of BitD actual play[/URL]: recommended viewing! As an exception, [USER=42582]@pemerton[/USER] writes up well-detailed reports that I count equivalent to video. Unless you're posting something as extensive as [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/torchbearer-2e-actual-play-of-this-awesome-system.691233/']their Torchbearer 2 write-ups[/URL], I don't count it of any special value to analysis beyond testimony to subjective experience. I'm happy to identify actual play videos as evidence. The two I already referred to are fair examples, and I can suggest some for a trad game if that would also be helpful. [URL='https://www.youtube.com/@HostileWorkEnv/videos']How We Role[/URL] has some excellent actual play videos: including Burning Wheel run by Luke Crane and Apocalypse World run by Vincent Baker. EDITED Added links to videos. [/QUOTE]
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