Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="SteveC" data-source="post: 9083707" data-attributes="member: 9053">The world where I live is filled with people and places that I have more than a surface connection with. A fantasy game where I know and have relationships with the characters that make it up feels more real to me. If I travel to a neighboring village and come across a shopkeeper who I know and who knows my family feels more real than someone I just go in to buy things from. The first character gives a sense that there's a world where that character has a life and a story and exists outside of when my character visits to buy some rations. The random shopkeeper might as well not even have a name. The interaction with them might as well be "I need to get some rations before we get back on the road so I go buy them..."And that seems less real to me. I'm not saying the first concept is good and the second is bad ... sometimes you just need the rations before you go do something else, but I know which one gives the perception of more depth to me and makes the world sound more real.This is only tangentially related to agency so I don't know how much more I can say about it.</blockquote>