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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5631720" data-attributes="member: 54707">That's mainly what I mean. Take an actor for  example, if he's in role for most of the work day for weeks and months at a time  it's fairly easy to "assume" a new behavioral role to overlay his own natural  one, because he's doing it professionally and intensely and consistently. But if  you're assuming an artificial role every couple of weeks for just a  few hours,  whereas the mental strain might not be anywhere near as great, it seems to me it  would be easy to slip back "into yourself often" through lack of practice.  You're not comfortable with the pseudo personality in the way you might be if  you were attempting to be that personality all of the time.  I'm a firm believer in stress affecting behavior,  especially in conditions like combat. Because I've seen it.    I do the same thing in game as well (use stress),  but rather than roll it I sometimes try to evoke stress in the players by short  but rapid and brutal assaults and ambushes to confuse them and keep them off  balance and in danger in unexpected ways. This often leads to "real game stress"  (that is to say things happen so rapidly the players forget the stress is  entirely imaginary and so react as if really stressed). The stress they feel and  the way they react is entirely psychologically induced, and voluntary for that  matter, that is they self-induce it, with my help, but it works out well in game  terms and the mistakes they make are not by die-roll but by situational  miscalculation because they stress themselves. You might call it artificial  panic induction, it seems real but it's not real of course, but they often  forget this and react as if it were.      </blockquote>

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