Play Is Paramount: Discuss

[SableWyvern]

You can certainly make an analogy where play is cooking. It just means for those who say prep is not play, prep becomes shopping (which is not cooking) and writing recipes (which is not cooking).

 

[aramis erak]

If you think it's silly, then I think you don't really understand what I'm saying.

I understand just fine, and I think you've taken the analogy all wrong. Most play is primarily consumption. Most players are NOT doing high improv drama. (If they were, there'd be ZIP-ALL demand for Critical Role and other such.)

 

[Maxperson]

I understand just fine, and I think you've taken the analogy all wrong. Most play is primarily consumption. Most players are NOT doing high improv drama. (If they were, there'd be ZIP-ALL demand for Critical Role and other such.)

If you think I'm talking about improv, you very much do not understand. A meal is the finished product. Game play is very much not a finished product by any stretch of the imagination. Game play is not the equivalent of a meal. Game play is cooking. It's all the ingredients, which includes the PCs getting together and through game play coming up with a finished product(The meal). That product is not finished until the end of the night.

The only kind of game play that is a meal is a railroad. The players are forced to consume the finished product that the DM is shoving down their throats.