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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 9556960" data-attributes="member: 7025508">I don't think the answer is such a clear cut binary as you think. The players decisions are informed by the genuine feeling the fictional situation elicits, and when the player is immersed to the PoV of their character they're primed to have emotional reaction appropriate to the character. These most likely are quite shallow feelings most of the time, but they still are integral in informing the character's reactions.Yeah, I'd hate that.Yeah, it is not just that. But even if you could not conceive roleplaying evoking genuine feelings,* we can still identify the issue. When my mental model of the character (whether that was immersive or intellectually detached in the manner you describe) says the character reacts one way but the rules say they react in some other way, we have a problem. That is the thing I hate, that is the thing that I don't want to happen; it breaks my immersion, takes me out of the character, out of the game. * And really? Certainly you do not actually mean that? If that was true, what's even the point?Right. But the characters can only make decisions regarding their own approach. You imply that the choices the players make are binding to the NPCs as well. Like when the players chose the non-lethal approach to the bandits, then the bandits could not initiate lethal violence either? Then illuminate me. You're being awfully vague regarding how the stakes are set. But my understanding is, that the stakes can be bound by the players in a manner that does not directly correspond to the things their characters can control.</blockquote>

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