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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9037578" data-attributes="member: 42582">I can tell you where I headed, while reading what I've quoted: you seemed to be describing a very mainstream sort of RPGing.In this sort of RPGing, the GM prepares material - a &quot;world&quot;, events, NPCs with various interlocking motivations, etc. And the players, in play, declare actions for their PCs which prompt the GM to reveal elements of the material they have prepared, presenting it as what is perceived by (or otherwise known to) the PCs.The description in the previous paragraph is true across the (so-called) &quot;railroad/linear &lt;=&gt; sandbox spectrum&quot;. The difference on that &quot;spectrum&quot; consists primarily in the principle the GM uses to extrapolate to new fiction from their already-authored fiction, and also in how the GM narrates the outcomes of action declarations about moving significant distances through the imagined world.In this sort of play, I don't see how the GM is &quot;immersed&quot;. At just about every point, they seem to be self-consciously authoring.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 9037578, member: 42582"] I can tell you where I headed, while reading what I've quoted: you seemed to be describing a very mainstream sort of RPGing. In this sort of RPGing, the GM prepares material - a "world", events, NPCs with various interlocking motivations, etc. And the players, in play, declare actions for their PCs which prompt the GM to reveal elements of the material they have prepared, presenting it as [I]what is perceived by (or otherwise known to)[/I] the PCs. The description in the previous paragraph is true across the (so-called) "railroad/linear <=> sandbox spectrum". The difference on that "spectrum" consists primarily in the principle the GM uses to extrapolate to new fiction from their already-authored fiction, and also in how the GM narrates the outcomes of action declarations about moving significant distances through the imagined world. In this sort of play, I don't see how the GM is "immersed". At just about every point, they seem to be self-consciously authoring. [/QUOTE]

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