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<blockquote data-quote="Smackpixi" data-source="post: 9069259" data-attributes="member: 7028579">My first instinct is, less rule, less rolls, more immersion.&nbsp; But thinking about it, no.&nbsp; I don’t think rules or rolling necessarily breaks immersion, and in fact can enhance.&nbsp; When I think back to when we’ve been most intensely in the moment, It wasn’t casually chatting it up role play interactions, it was rolling dice at the penultimate moment of a combat.&nbsp; Time pressure on a puzzle.&nbsp; Even I just said, chatting it up wasn’t one of the immersion moments, but I think there’s been conversations where the players take ten minutes real time to discuss what they want to say, totally not verisimilitude, totally gaming the game, but they were into it, and the outcome of the conversation mattered more than anything else in the world.&nbsp; I think Immersion can happen in any game, even Iike a card game like War.&nbsp; When you’re so into the game the outside world falls away.&nbsp; I’m not sure what rules support this, I think the intense immersion can happen in any game, but RPG specific for a DM to sustain, when someone says “I dive into the water, my dagger unsheathed and pointed ahead of me as me feet kick propelling me forward toward the beast” and you have no idea what the rules are for this, the thing to say is not, lemme check, it’s, “um, omg, roll 3 d6 beat 12” and just go with it.Immersion is being in the moment, and sustaining that when it happens is just everyone at the table going with it and doing their best and not questioning anyone else’s deviations from perfect.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Smackpixi, post: 9069259, member: 7028579"] My first instinct is, less rule, less rolls, more immersion. But thinking about it, no. I don’t think rules or rolling necessarily breaks immersion, and in fact can enhance. When I think back to when we’ve been most intensely in the moment, It wasn’t casually chatting it up role play interactions, it was rolling dice at the penultimate moment of a combat. Time pressure on a puzzle. Even I just said, chatting it up wasn’t one of the immersion moments, but I think there’s been conversations where the players take ten minutes real time to discuss what they want to say, totally not verisimilitude, totally gaming the game, but they were into it, and the outcome of the conversation mattered more than anything else in the world. I think Immersion can happen in any game, even Iike a card game like War. When you’re so into the game the outside world falls away. I’m not sure what rules support this, I think the intense immersion can happen in any game, but RPG specific for a DM to sustain, when someone says “I dive into the water, my dagger unsheathed and pointed ahead of me as me feet kick propelling me forward toward the beast” and you have no idea what the rules are for this, the thing to say is not, lemme check, it’s, “um, omg, roll 3 d6 beat 12” and just go with it. Immersion is being in the moment, and sustaining that when it happens is just everyone at the table going with it and doing their best and not questioning anyone else’s deviations from perfect. [/QUOTE]

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