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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7942185" data-attributes="member: 29398">True, and in that process of invention we're creating a fictional reality quite different from our own, in which our PCs live and do whatever they do when we play them.Which means there's now two "realities" - one for us, one for our PCs.  Complete immersion, which seems to be Saelorn's goal here, requires the player to in effect largely ignore one reality (ours) and as far as possible inhabit the other one (that of the PCs).  It's a laudable goal, if often unattainable.There's strong parallels with "method acting", where a performer fully inhabits their fictional character even when off-stage or off-set such that they don't have to do anything to get in character to perform, because they're already there.  It's not how all actors do it, but it really works for some.Here, the idea is that the game-player fully inhabits the fictional character while at the table (but hopefully not all week!) and think, as far as possible, like it thinks.Seeing as the whole hobby revolves around pretending anyway, to pretend one doesn't exist for a while doesn't seem all that big a jump. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>