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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SweeneyTodd" data-source="post: 2443015" data-attributes="member: 9391">Hi all,mythusmage started a very interesting thread <a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=141456" target="_blank">here</a> about immersion and the various ways people portray their characters. He's stated that he'd like his thread to work more as a poll, and not discuss the relative merits of immersive versus non-immersive play, so out of respect for his wishes I've started this thread. Hopefully we can expand on the topic while allowing him to keep his thread on his original topic.I'd like to lead off with a key distinction I make between 'immersion' and 'stance'. Here's how I view it:Immersion: The extent to which a player identifies with and attempts to portray or become their character. (This is very vague; feel free to offer a better definition)Stance: A technique a player uses to portray their character. For example, character as "game piece to be manipulated", "role to be played", or "character to be authored". I think the two are often connected, but not necessarily. For example, it's possible to not identify with your character at all, but still interact with the group with first-person descriptions. On the other end, you might identify strongly with your character, but describe their actions in the third person.I welcome any and all opinions, including personal preferences, relative merits and pitfalls of different approaches to immersion and stance, etc.</blockquote>

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