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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8142115" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Perhaps, but I don't see how that conclusion follows in any logical way from the premise. You &quot;operating in the real world&quot;, you &quot;acting as a player in a game&quot;, and &quot;your character&quot;, need not be analogous in any particular way. In fact, the argument I've heard is that being a player asked what terrain is to the north doesn't work for you because it divorces you from the character, since you operate in different ways. However, don't ALL the other things that are different between you and your character (in the fiction of the game) do this as well? Why would you not prefer to play yourself in the game? Surely you can identify perfectly with THAT character! But you don't, and you will probably answer that you want to imagine something different. Why can't that different thing include partially authoring the setting? I don't see why only certain things become what 'you ought to be able to do'. I won't argue about preferences of course, but when you say 'nor should your character be able to...' and other similar statements they seem more like prescriptions than preferences.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 8142115, member: 82106"] Perhaps, but I don't see how that conclusion follows in any logical way from the premise. You "operating in the real world", you "acting as a player in a game", and "your character", need not be analogous in any particular way. In fact, the argument I've heard is that being a player asked what terrain is to the north doesn't work for you because it divorces you from the character, since you operate in different ways. However, don't ALL the other things that are different between you and your character (in the fiction of the game) do this as well? Why would you not prefer to play yourself in the game? Surely you can identify perfectly with THAT character! But you don't, and you will probably answer that you want to imagine something different. Why can't that different thing include partially authoring the setting? I don't see why only certain things become what 'you ought to be able to do'. I won't argue about preferences of course, but when you say 'nor should your character be able to...' and other similar statements they seem more like prescriptions than preferences. [/QUOTE]

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