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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 4704592" data-attributes="member: 18832">Glad we don't play together then. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I really find that kind of "immersion" gets in the way of what I enjoy about roleplaying games, and I really really don't want to play characters who are much like me. It's not about pretending I'm someone else, or getting away from my life in some kind of an escapist sense - that idea bores me to tears, I really don't care for escapism the way some people seem to enjoy it.What I enjoy is creating a character, then seeing how they react in various situations throughout the course of the game. This can often surprise me - not in the sense that the character does something other than what I have them do, obviously, but in the sense that I can't predict everything that the character would naturally do until it happens.Now, "immersion" really gets in the way of that, because when I experience something in the moment I can't properly observe it - and that observation is way more fun for me than experiencing it in some kind of vicarious imaginative sense. Likewise, playing a character who is similar to me isn't any fun either, because it doesn't take any imaginative or creative work to figure out what I'm like or what I'd do in a given situation.Sorry, mate, but this binary division you have here is crap. Read what I posted above, and then tell me that I still fit into either of your overly-limited categories of either "beer 'n' pretzels" or "immersive" gaming. You're just not seeing that there's more diversity in gaming styles out there.</blockquote>

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