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<blockquote data-quote="Campbell" data-source="post: 8239129" data-attributes="member: 16586">My personal opinion is that any world that is small enough to fit inside the confines of a single person's head is not worthy of its label. That professional actors spend months preparing to take on the role of a single person where their words are provided for them and still often feel like they could have done better. I feel like we can do an adequate of reasoning about the fiction in extremely limited contexts, but the idea that we could ever hold a whole world in our head is fanciful. By the way that does not mean that the pursuit is not valuable, but if we want to do the best we can as GMs in whatever discipline I think we should not delude ourselves as to the enormity of the task and the fact that we will all fall short.That's all fine because in falling short we still accomplish a lot. We create something that has meaning to us. We get to experience our own world in a different way through the barest glimpses of another world.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Campbell, post: 8239129, member: 16586"] My personal opinion is that any world that is small enough to fit inside the confines of a single person's head is not worthy of its label. That professional actors spend months preparing to take on the role of a single person where their words are provided for them and still often feel like they could have done better. I feel like we can do an adequate of reasoning about the fiction in extremely limited contexts, but the idea that we could ever hold a whole world in our head is fanciful. By the way that does not mean that the pursuit is not valuable, but if we want to do the best we can as GMs in whatever discipline I think we should not delude ourselves as to the enormity of the task and the fact that we will all fall short. That's all fine because in falling short we still accomplish a lot. We create something that has meaning to us. We get to experience our own world in a different way through the barest glimpses of another world. [/QUOTE]

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