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<blockquote data-quote="niklinna" data-source="post: 8627222" data-attributes="member: 71235">This is approaching something we can work out. There are different kinds of immersion, and from the other things you've said, I believe you're more interested in immersion into character than immersion into the moment or into figuring out who a character is in play. That's perfectly fine. A heavy Story Now approach isn't going to fulfill that need for you. But don't throw the whole technique out just because it seems Story Now must be all or nothing. As I mentioned above, you can use it with the other stuff in wildly different mixes. (I've had the itch to write a post about this tendency to associate approaches and techniques with whole games, or as mutually exclusive to games for a bit now.)The &quot;visceral&quot; and &quot;immediacy&quot; there are clues that they are after a different kind of immersion than you. It's totally possible to immerse in author stance, but the nature of that immersion is quite different. And maybe weird too, but it wasn't that long ago that being into RPGs at all meant you were an outright freak!Oh, and on the off chance you wind up in a heavy Story Now session and you just can't swing with that, might I suggest it's perfectly fine for you to create as much backstory as you want and not tell anybody until it necessarily comes up in play. Just because the approach features the GM asking questions, doesn't mean you can't have the answers figured out ahead of time. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="8-)" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; 8-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname="8-)" />(For the pedants, yes, that means they won't actually be doing Story Now, but they'll be playing along as best they can so that they can have fun along with everybody else. Dealing further with clashes between agendas during play is a Whole Nother Topic, though.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="niklinna, post: 8627222, member: 71235"] This is approaching something we can work out. There are different kinds of immersion, and from the other things you've said, I believe you're more interested in immersion into character than immersion into the moment or into figuring out who a character is in play. That's perfectly fine. A heavy Story Now approach isn't going to fulfill that need for you. But don't throw the whole technique out just because it seems Story Now [i]must[/i] be all or nothing. As I mentioned above, you can use it with the other stuff in wildly different mixes. (I've had the itch to write a post about this tendency to associate approaches and techniques with whole games, or as mutually exclusive [i]to games[/i] for a bit now.) The "visceral" and "immediacy" there are clues that they are after a different kind of immersion than you. It's totally possible to immerse in author stance, but the nature of that immersion is quite different. And maybe weird too, but it wasn't that long ago that being into RPGs at all meant you were an outright freak! Oh, and on the off chance you wind up in a heavy Story Now session and you just can't swing with that, might I suggest it's perfectly fine for you to create as much backstory as you want and [i]not tell anybody[/i] until it necessarily comes up in play. Just because the approach features the GM asking questions, doesn't mean you can't have the answers figured out ahead of time. 8-) (For the pedants, yes, that means they won't actually be doing Story Now, but they'll be playing along as best they can so that they can have fun along with everybody else. Dealing further with clashes between agendas during play is a Whole Nother Topic, though.) [/QUOTE]

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