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<blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 8437539" data-attributes="member: 87792"><p>If this is an RPG the big questions beyond that are <em>who am I </em>and<em> what is this world?</em> Am I [USER=87792]@Neonchameleon[/USER] , the real world person in a world where krakens don't actually exist so I'm likely to assume I'm watching someone filming something and a sensible thing to do would be to record it on my smartphone? Am I a 1920s mythos investigator, hoping that it's <em>only</em> a kraken? Am I Beowulf, probably outmatched by one kraken but able to hold my breath and with four comrades in arms I should be able to take it? Am I Cuchulain, able to cut the tops off mountains? Can I talk to the kraken? Is this the Harry Potter universe where the squid in the lake is actually pretty friendly?</p><p></p><p>The more you hide the mechanics from me the more you hide from me the nature of who I am and what the world is. And Dungeons and Dragons in specific covers an absurd power level range. A rough idea of how the world functions would be part of the information available - and the mechanics of the game provide an approximation as to that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Neonchameleon, post: 8437539, member: 87792"] If this is an RPG the big questions beyond that are [I]who am I [/I]and[I] what is this world?[/I] Am I [USER=87792]@Neonchameleon[/USER] , the real world person in a world where krakens don't actually exist so I'm likely to assume I'm watching someone filming something and a sensible thing to do would be to record it on my smartphone? Am I a 1920s mythos investigator, hoping that it's [I]only[/I] a kraken? Am I Beowulf, probably outmatched by one kraken but able to hold my breath and with four comrades in arms I should be able to take it? Am I Cuchulain, able to cut the tops off mountains? Can I talk to the kraken? Is this the Harry Potter universe where the squid in the lake is actually pretty friendly? The more you hide the mechanics from me the more you hide from me the nature of who I am and what the world is. And Dungeons and Dragons in specific covers an absurd power level range. A rough idea of how the world functions would be part of the information available - and the mechanics of the game provide an approximation as to that. [/QUOTE]
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