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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7594852" data-attributes="member: 42582">We played a Cthulhu Dark session <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?653231-Cthulhu-Dark-session" target="_blank">not too long ago</a>. No text, boxed or otherwise. It was pretty fun.This is a complete misdescription and misreading of what I said.One way to have your emotions aroused is to be an audience member to a performance.Another, different way - much more like real life! - is to have to make a hard choice. Rationality has nothing to do with that. Both rational and irrational people experience emotions when they have to make decisions.The last session in which I was a player (as opposed to GM) I explored the tower of the Great Master and demon summoner Evard. There, I discovered old letters writen by my mother to Evard, suggesting that the latter was my grandfather. I burned them.The emotions I expereinced weren't resulting from the GM's performance. They were resulting from my inhabitation of my character and the situation. That's what makes it RPGing, rather than storytelling and acting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 7594852, member: 42582"] We played a Cthulhu Dark session [url=http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?653231-Cthulhu-Dark-session]not too long ago[/url]. No text, boxed or otherwise. It was pretty fun. This is a complete misdescription and misreading of what I said. One way to have your emotions aroused is to be an audience member to a performance. Another, different way - much more like real life! - is to [I]have to make a hard choice[/I]. Rationality has nothing to do with that. Both rational and irrational people experience emotions when they have to make decisions. The last session in which I was a player (as opposed to GM) I explored the tower of the Great Master and demon summoner Evard. There, I discovered old letters writen by my mother to Evard, suggesting that the latter was my grandfather. I burned them. The emotions I expereinced weren't resulting from the GM's performance. They were resulting from my inhabitation of my character and the situation. That's what makes it RPGing, rather than storytelling and acting. [/QUOTE]

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