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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Three_Haligonians" data-source="post: 1592699" data-attributes="member: 19546">One of the more intricate aspects to playing is how we reffer to ourselves while gaming.  For instance, in the theatre, an actor asumes a character and then proceeds to speak about him/herself in the first person, this occures in scripted work as well as improv.  If the actor has any actions to perform, the actor either uses props to perform the task or mimes it out.When gaming, one of the things I find most facinating is how we refer to our characters.  We speak our dialouge just as an actor would, but when we perform an action we would say something like "I unsheath my sword and charge".  Sometimes, for clarification, we go so far as to say "I say: "give me the potion or else."The DM, on the other hand, has to work as both narrator and actor.  He/she usually must talk from the point of view of the NPC's, but frequently does this in the third person: "she looks at you for a moment before responding: "I do not know."  However, the DM must also describe the surroundings to the PC's so he/she also must adopt second person (?...I could be wrong on the term) point of view: "you enter the temple and are immediatly dazzled by the tall, marble pillars".When I was playing and DMing a lot, I found, at least once a session, I would get the terminology all screwed up and would end up saying something like "she...no I open the door".Hope that helps,(t from three haligonians)PS: When your finished your thesis, you do realize your going to have to post it here, right!!   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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