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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6381407" data-attributes="member: 42582"><p><em>When I read a book I may sometimes generate images, but often don't. And when watching a (good) movie my imagination is engaged, also - I have to impute the inner life of the protagonists, which in a book may well be provided by way of narration. In my view there is nothing less imaginative in watching Casablanca and getting inside the heads of the characters, than reading Tolkien and imagining what Rivendell or Minas Tirith might look like.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>I agree that for many RPGers a "classic D&D" game involves a stronger degree of GM authority than I prefer. My point is that this fact is somewhat hard to reconcile with the contention that there is something distinctively creative about participating in RPG play compared to other sorts of activities. In a game in which the GM has decided most of the key elements of backstory, situation, opposition and other stakes, etc, then what exactly does the creativity of the players consist? Forming mental images of things, and choosing whether to fight with a longsword or a mace?</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>I personally don't think that this sort of creativity is all that profound. I don't think it warrants any sort of comparison to performing jazz, which <em>does</em> involve artistic spontaneity on the part of the performer.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6381407, member: 42582"] [I]When I read a book I may sometimes generate images, but often don't. And when watching a (good) movie my imagination is engaged, also - I have to impute the inner life of the protagonists, which in a book may well be provided by way of narration. In my view there is nothing less imaginative in watching Casablanca and getting inside the heads of the characters, than reading Tolkien and imagining what Rivendell or Minas Tirith might look like. I agree that for many RPGers a "classic D&D" game involves a stronger degree of GM authority than I prefer. My point is that this fact is somewhat hard to reconcile with the contention that there is something distinctively creative about participating in RPG play compared to other sorts of activities. In a game in which the GM has decided most of the key elements of backstory, situation, opposition and other stakes, etc, then what exactly does the creativity of the players consist? Forming mental images of things, and choosing whether to fight with a longsword or a mace? I personally don't think that this sort of creativity is all that profound. I don't think it warrants any sort of comparison to performing jazz, which [I]does[/I] involve artistic spontaneity on the part of the performer.[/i] [/QUOTE]
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