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The issue arises when the rules also decide how the character reacts.

But are they present? What if they aren't? What if your mental model says that the character feels one way and the rules say they feel...

Intimidation roll result or such. And I think you understood the actual point. They have no say on the moment of how the character...

So what you think it working vice versa would mean? I don't understand why you've gotten hung up on this. I did not say or imply that...

The emotions that the mental model interacting with the fiction outputs are real, even if weaker than ones a real situation would...

I've run campaigns here and there were the PCs start out as commoners - sometimes even children. The closest thing to combat was...

I find levels 3-5 to be the sweet spot for 5e (either version). And I don’t want to just start in the sweet spot, because then the game...

I don't know if you have half of the people here blocked or something, but you seem to be missing a big part of the conversation. Yes...

Well, not with that attitude!

In my mind it's in precisely the same category of pretending to be deceived by an NPC that you (the player) actually believe is lying...

I'll try not to speak for that poster, but for myself I don't see it as "resisting" being traumatized. It's more akin to reading a...

We agree on that emotions caused by an imagines situation are likely to be less strong than ones caused by a real situation because that...

Yes, in theory. But this would require everyone to create bizarrely randomly mentally fragile characters all the time, which would just...

Yeah, and to me evoking these sort of correspondent emotions is a huge part of the whole point of RPGs. RPGs are better for it than...

On occasion while playing a video game I have falled (or jumped) off a cliff and physically experienced a mild sensation of falling. It...