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<blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 7728726" data-attributes="member: 6775031">Phillip doesn't just decide that Gareth should do a thing, in his capacity as creative-consultant on a work of shared-fiction, and then look toward the DM-as-editor as to whether they're going to move ahead with that. Phillip simply imagines himself to be Gareth, inputs all of the information that Gareth has, and whatever his brain spits out as the next step becomes his best model for what Gareth will try next.It's a difference between first-person decision-making and third-person decision-making. Role-playing is first-person decision-making. You might be able to argue that Phillip is authoring Gareth's thoughts, if you really wanted to be pedantic about it, but you couldn't argue that he authors any elements of the fiction any more than you could argue that your own thoughts define any element of our reality; the two are directly analogous.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Crimson Binome, post: 7728726, member: 6775031"] Phillip doesn't just [I]decide[/I] that Gareth should do a thing, in his capacity as creative-consultant on a work of shared-fiction, and then look toward the DM-as-editor as to whether they're going to move ahead with that. Phillip simply imagines himself to be Gareth, inputs all of the information that Gareth has, and whatever his brain spits out as the next step becomes his best model for what Gareth will try next. It's a difference between first-person decision-making and third-person decision-making. Role-playing is first-person decision-making. You might be able to argue that Phillip is authoring Gareth's thoughts, if you really wanted to be pedantic about it, but you couldn't argue that he authors any elements of the fiction any more than you could argue that your own thoughts define any element of our reality; the two are directly analogous. [/QUOTE]

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