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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 9319795" data-attributes="member: 7025508">But that's not what RPG's are about. When I play an RPG, I don't want to feel like a director or a writer, I don't want to feel like that even as I GM one. I want to immerse in the world, feel like being there, experience a viewpoint of a fictional character. And all that entails pretending it is real. So what? None of that is playing an RPG. When we play we pretend it is real.Yet to me both of these statement are about as real that Doyle's statement that Sherlock Holmes was a bit over six feet tall. I have never seen you, and unlikely that I ever will. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937.png" title="Person shrugging&nbsp; &nbsp; :person_shrugging:" data-shortname=":person_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />You're in the weeds here. But if it helps you, remember what Kant said. The reality itself is unknowable, all can know our mind's conception of it. And there Achilles, Caesar and Holmes are just as real. Or perhaps you're just overthinking this. It's advanced cops and robbers. We pretend to be other people in order to play. And I for one am thankful that I am not yet too jaded and detached to have such childish fun!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson Longinus, post: 9319795, member: 7025508"] But that's not what RPG's are about. When I play an RPG, I don't want to feel like a director or a writer, I don't want to feel like that even as I GM one. I want to immerse in the world, feel like being there, experience a viewpoint of a fictional character. And all that entails pretending it is real. So what? None of that is playing an RPG. When we play we pretend it is real. Yet to me both of these statement are about as real that Doyle's statement that Sherlock Holmes was a bit over six feet tall. I have never seen you, and unlikely that I ever will. 🤷 You're in the weeds here. But if it helps you, remember what Kant said. The reality itself is unknowable, all can know our mind's conception of it. And there Achilles, Caesar and Holmes are just as real. Or perhaps you're just overthinking this. It's advanced cops and robbers. We pretend to be other people in order to play. And I for one am thankful that I am not yet too jaded and detached to have such childish fun! [/QUOTE]

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