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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zakael19" data-source="post: 9559841" data-attributes="member: 7044099">The dice/rules are desirable for this because they let you test your character absent from yourself, they enhance the uncertainty and distinction of that character as a person you can never truly inhabit (you aren't feeling the heavy sword in their hands, seeing the tears run down their friend's face, tasting the blood in their mouth); the closest being the like nearly hallucination Nordic LARP type play.Essentially, a deliberately created ruleset that allows the world to act on a character's inner state (and outer state for that matter) can greatly enhance the illusion of that character as a being existing in a world it knows. This was like, (one of) the incredible paradigm shifting design moments in Apocalypse World: Read a Person where you have a back and forth with another player in a way which tries to reveal to the table as a whole what exactly two people engaging in a charged conversation with all the body language and movement and vocal cues & etc would actually be able to get.Totally get that some people don't like this idea of mild-separation and retaining their character as a mental model of a character you're running in your meat substrate vice trying to pretend you're actually them. In every game that I've played where the mechanics squeeze at the character's mental/emotional states and ask hard questions and we then drag those things out into the shared conversation for everybody to see it's been just so much higher quality stuff to say then first person talking-IC has tended to.</blockquote>

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