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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SpiderMonkey" data-source="post: 1405035" data-attributes="member: 11385">This is an extension of a great thread about terrible games:<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=79401" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=79401</a>I'd like to discuss its converse: games in which, at one moment or another, you really felt like you were "there" or just tapped into emotion on a level you don't normally get to.For me, it was during a Marvel game using the Saga rules (great session, awful rules).  It was a solo game in which my character was tracking down a strange villian who was utilizing dream-powers to rape college girls in their sleep.  I found out that it was a mysoginistic gamer (??!!!) who felt alienated and had volunteered for a program that would expand his lucid dreaming.  The experiment got out of hand, tapping into what Jung would call the collective unconsiousness, and the villian began abusing his new-found power.  When my character finally tracked him down in the real world and confronted him, I felt a wellspring of emotion: disgust, righteous anger, fear, and (to a smaller extent) even pity.  I guess the DM figured that both of us actually knew people like this, and it would provoke an immediate response; I was literally trembling after the session, and I've never had an experience like that before or after.  Good stuff.What about you?</blockquote>