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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8438426" data-attributes="member: 42582">It seems that I am closer to Campbell on this point.As a player, among the most intense scenes I've experienced RPGing were when Thurgon met his brother, and then mother, after years in exile from his ancestral estate (s-blocked for length):[spoiler][/spoiler]In these encounters there was no elaborate description. I don't think there were any funny voices - maybe there was a slight shift in intonation or volume to signal that the NPC and not the GM himself was speaking. What made these engaging was the situation itself - what it meant, and what it threatened and promised.As far as Campbell's list of desiderata goes, this had the first two of his three items:Trying to reach Rufus - the cynical Aramina succeeding in shaming him, but the noble Thurgon then being unable to bring him out of his shame back into honour; and then calling on the power of the divine to lift the burdens and resignation from Xanthippe, which was a redemption not just of her but of Thurgon, given his failure with Rufus - that is where the immersion is found, for me.I don't need the GM to provide evocative narrative. I need the GM to establish these compelling situations.</blockquote>