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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 8938516" data-attributes="member: 71699">I'd like to ask your further thoughts on &quot;role&quot;? An important feature of an ontological description is that it includes everything expected to be in the category and excludes everything expected to be outside it. The description works as a whole, so that even if adopting or playing a role is not distinctive to RPG, it might be that there are activities that satisfy all of<ol>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">ongoing authorship of common fiction, through a continuous process of drafting and revising, that all participate in</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">regulatory and constitutive rules</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">a linkage from fictional position (and thus the fiction) to the regulatory and constitutive rules</li>
</ol>but that in being games in which participants do not adopt or play a role, should be excluded. I don't know that we have yet said exactly what adopting or playing a role entails? How do we recognise that a role has been adopted or played? What kinds of role can there be? What does it mean to adopt or play a role? What about acts performed in memory-of or picturing a role?A particular challenge I am thinking of is Everest Pipkin's &quot;The Ground Itself&quot; (available on itch.io and drivethruRPG.) The game is characterised as a story-telling and world-building game. The author writes that &quot;Fundamentally, this is a game about the echoes and traces we leave for others after we are gone.&quot; I experience it to be about imagined memories: who we might have been, what we could have left behind. (Perhaps that will let in some sort of notion of adopting a recollected role.) Coming from experience playing &quot;Artefact&quot;, for me, it works as successfully solo as with the recommended 2-5 players. I feel like I am playing an RPG when I play it (others may feel differently: it has a strong card drawing component, for instance... one that reminds of Tarot rituals and of course, &quot;Everway&quot;.)As time permits, I look forward to other folk's thoughts.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 8938516, member: 71699"] I'd like to ask your further thoughts on "[B]role[/B]"? An important feature of an ontological description is that it includes everything expected to be in the category [I]and [/I]excludes everything expected to be outside it. The description works as a whole, so that even if adopting or playing a role is not [I]distinctive[/I] to RPG, it might be that there are activities that satisfy all of [LIST=1] [*]ongoing authorship of common fiction, through a continuous process of drafting and revising, that all participate in [*]regulatory and constitutive rules [*]a linkage from fictional position (and thus the fiction) to the regulatory and constitutive rules [/LIST] but that in being games in which participants [B]do not[/B] adopt or play a role, should be excluded. I don't know that we have yet said exactly what adopting or playing a role entails? How do we recognise that a role has been adopted or played? What kinds of role can there be? What does it mean to adopt or play a role? What about acts performed in memory-of or picturing a role? A particular challenge I am thinking of is Everest Pipkin's "[I]The Ground Itself[/I]" (available on itch.io and drivethruRPG.) The game is characterised as a story-telling and world-building game. The author writes that "Fundamentally, this is a game about the echoes and traces we leave for others after we are gone." I experience it to be about imagined memories: who we might have been, what we could have left behind. (Perhaps that will let in some sort of notion of adopting a [I]recollected [/I]role.) Coming from experience playing "[I]Artefact[/I]", for me, it works as successfully solo as with the recommended 2-5 players. I feel like I am playing an RPG when I play it (others may feel differently: it has a strong card drawing component, for instance... one that reminds of Tarot rituals and of course, "[I]Everway[/I]".) As time permits, I look forward to other folk's thoughts. [/QUOTE]

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