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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 9870376" data-attributes="member: 6785785">How is the distance artificially increased? What do you mean by that? If you mean something like why would I want there to be distance between me and the character… or perhaps in some cases, more distance… again, I’ll lean on Clara from The Between. Sometimes, a character is in some given way not like me. At all. So sometimes, taking a step back and make the distinction between myself and my character, I actually get a clearer picture of what the character would do rather than what I would do. We often get so caught up in the first person aspect of playing a character that it’s easy to respond less as the character and more as myself. For a character like Clara, who’s so different from myself, than doesn’t suit. Also, there’s a matter of comfort. As Clara’s backstory slowly took shape in play and we learned more about her, she kind of became worse and worse. The context of what we knew changed how I and the other players looked at her. Being able to distance myself from that was probably a good thing. Not sure if either of those address what you had in mind… let me know.</blockquote>