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I've never blocked anyone, though there are a few people who've blocked me. As I've said, there may have been posts that I've missed...

I think there is some similarity to Clara, yes. She was very different from many of the characters I play. This was largely due to the...

But who in this thread - other than you - is describing, or proposing, a RPG which involves dice rolls for your PC to keep/lose their...

What game are you talking about here? As in, what game involves dice rolls for your PC to keep/lose their cool in non-dramatic...

But I don't know what you mean by "creating more distance". I think this is a choice. A perfectly fine one, mind you, but still a...

I wouldn't really do that, either. What a player decides their character believes is almost always and entirely up to them. In D&D or...

I suppose. To me, it feels more like when someone explains how they feel or how they reacted or responded to a situation and you hear...

The buy in to Blades is that you’re creating characters that can be traumatised by the events of the game in the way the system says. So...

yeah, you can intellectually understand that your character might be angry or under pressure, but you really aren't experiencing the...

Yeah… there are few scenarios in RPGs I’d rather see less than a bunch of players pretending not to know trolls are vulnerable to fire...

Sure. This was all I said. Sounds like you agree? I believe in you! You can pretend whatever you want! Way to dodge the question...

How is the distance artificially increased? What do you mean by that? If you mean something like why would I want there to be distance...

Sure. But there’s a distance there, which is my point. The severity or depth of the feeling is different. The way we feel it is...

when do the dice ever actually say something like 'you like this NPC' though? yes, they say things like 'they make a convincing argument...

Frankly, I don't think there is anything but other kinds of immersion. The experience being described there is so personal and so tied...