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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zarionofarabel" data-source="post: 9758425" data-attributes="member: 7026405"><p>I don't know, I think you might be on to something. I mean, I'm in the GM seat FAR more often then I play. I also play (and GM) in an "emergent" mindset, in that I don't have a storyline in mind, I just want to see what's going to happen. If "bad things" happen to key NPCs, or other PCs, or to the fictional world...well...it's what happened! I mean, I do feel good when my PC is able to save the princess or whatever, but I don't get like depressed if the princess gets eaten instead, that's just what happened. Perhaps it's a side effect of only GMing for the first decade of my time in the hobby? I'm not joking! I literally started out being the GM for my hometown friend group, and no one else ever wanted to GM, so I was always GM. It wasn't until I moved away from my hometown that I finally had the opportunity to be a PLAYER in a TTRPG game. Same as the whole "immersion" thing folks talk about. I believe I have witnessed players get deeply immersed in their PC in games I am running, as they display emotional responses to the things their PC is experiencing. I am not sure if I've ever really been immersed. I tend to "see" everything, including my PC, in the third person. I also don't get upset over bad things happening to my PC, as that is just what happened in the story. I DO feel some tension over goal oriented events in a game, especially time sensitive ones. It's just the no-death blow by blow combat encounter that feels totally empty and pointless, and completely lacks tension. Chase my PC down a hallway with a Xenomorph, or send my PC to investigate a seaside town where the locals are a "little off" and I'll be a giddy with excitement. Give my PC an Ironman suit and tell me to fight Thanos to save the world and I'm instantly bored.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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