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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 7942817" data-attributes="member: 5142">Going back to this point: IMHO, the desire for "complete immersion" immediately stops being laudable when it's being used for gatekeeping purposes, telling other tables that they are having badwrongfun, or adhering to supercilious notions of "bad RP." The idea that the only way for players to roleplay their characters is to pretend that the outside world does not exist is psychotic. The game world is fictitious. It has an outside world that no degree of "complete immersion" or "roleplay purity test" will erase. If one even hopes to roleplay with "verisimilitude," the player will and must draw on outside knowledge of what it means to be real. The GM is drawing upon outside materials, sources, inspiration, and other things when generating the world and its inhabitants. The outside world will most definitely influence what goes inside, because that is the only way for the inside world to exist. Its fictions and content exists only through input from the outside! If the contents of a newspaper article has personally adversely affected the mood, behavior, or attitude of my player (or even myself) - and I will not speculate why that may be the case - then it would be absolutely bonkers to say that it has no influence on how the player may roleplay their character. It isn't just illogical to think that it won't have no effect on the behavior of their character, it's pure lunacy to argue otherwise! Source? Wikipedia, which is a fairly decent source for common denominator understanding, does not evidence your stringently narrow understanding of the term, its definition, or usage. So it appears that you have not only created a false definition of the term, but also imprinted it on a false past too. Impressive. See? For me, if a fraction of the fanbase are giant douche-nozzles who go around thinking that it's okay to police others about metagaming and the need to police others about OneTrueWayism roleplaying or telling them that they are doing badwrongfun at their tables, then I not only can't trust them, but I will fight them tooth and claw because they are far more toxic to our hobby than metagaming.</blockquote>

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