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<blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 8256363" data-attributes="member: 21169">A suggested plot in Jonathan Tweet's rpg Over the Edge (1992) has the PCs gradually realising they are characters in a roleplaying game via this method (among others).Someone confronts the PCs and says they are not real people. To prove it, she throws rapid-fire questions at them, such as “Where were you born?,” “How many siblings do you have?,” “What’s your mother’s maiden name?,” etc. The point is that normal people should be able to answer these questions immediately, while the players may well have to pause while they invent the background. Also, search for inconsistencies in the backgrounds the PCs have developed. In the role-playing universe, once the player has imagined something, it comes into existence, so once the PC says, “I have two brothers and a sister,” it is so and has been so in the past. But if pressed, a PC may well create inconsistencies. The GMC uses this interrogation session as proof that the PCs are not real people, or at least not normal ones.Ultimately the PCs meet their players.Now that the PCs know who they are, have them meet their makers. A door opens (or whatever), and in step several people (describe the role-playing group exactly as they are). Each walks to his individual PC and says, “I am your creator. Now you have an opportunity to ask me anything you want” (or something like that). Encourage the players to have their PCs confront their makers, demanding to know why they were put through such struggles, why they were made defectively, etc. Have each player talk out the conversation between himself and the PC with the other players looking on. Played properly, this could be extremely dramatic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Doug McCrae, post: 8256363, member: 21169"] A suggested plot in Jonathan Tweet's rpg Over the Edge (1992) has the PCs gradually realising they are characters in a roleplaying game via this method (among others). [INDENT]Someone confronts the PCs and says they are not real people. To prove it, she throws rapid-fire questions at them, such as “Where were you born?,” “How many siblings do you have?,” “What’s your mother’s maiden name?,” etc. The point is that normal people should be able to answer these questions immediately, while the players may well have to pause while they invent the background. Also, search for inconsistencies in the backgrounds the PCs have developed. In the role-playing universe, once the player has imagined something, it comes into existence, so once the PC says, “I have two brothers and a sister,” it is so and has been so in the past. But if pressed, a PC may well create inconsistencies. The GMC uses this interrogation session as proof that the PCs are not real people, or at least not normal ones.[/INDENT] Ultimately the PCs meet their players. [INDENT]Now that the PCs know who they are, have them meet their makers. A door opens (or whatever), and in step several people (describe the role-playing group exactly as they are). Each walks to his individual PC and says, “I am your creator. Now you have an opportunity to ask me anything you want” (or something like that). Encourage the players to have their PCs confront their makers, demanding to know why they were put through such struggles, why they were made defectively, etc. Have each player talk out the conversation between himself and the PC with the other players looking on. Played properly, this could be extremely dramatic.[/INDENT] [/QUOTE]

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