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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 9079303" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>It isn't that those don't apply. It is more like Occam's Razor for me now. For me what matters is that initial experience I am referring to. Anything else is an attempt to explain it, and I think might be on to something but also usually leads me to troubled roads as a GM and player. My aim is to steer away from any kind of gaming ideology and really just stick with the direct experience of it and table play. I think when I get hung up on concepts like immersion, it naturally tends to lead to lists of things that can violate immersion or enhance them, and you start being guided more by that list than by your direct experience (I think you can even teach yourself to have your immersion disrupted by things that wouldn't otherwise disrupt it). At least for me, sticking as closely to ideas like this and to very broad concepts like having a living world, is what helps guide my GMing more than focusing on a list of set things</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 9079303, member: 85555"] It isn't that those don't apply. It is more like Occam's Razor for me now. For me what matters is that initial experience I am referring to. Anything else is an attempt to explain it, and I think might be on to something but also usually leads me to troubled roads as a GM and player. My aim is to steer away from any kind of gaming ideology and really just stick with the direct experience of it and table play. I think when I get hung up on concepts like immersion, it naturally tends to lead to lists of things that can violate immersion or enhance them, and you start being guided more by that list than by your direct experience (I think you can even teach yourself to have your immersion disrupted by things that wouldn't otherwise disrupt it). At least for me, sticking as closely to ideas like this and to very broad concepts like having a living world, is what helps guide my GMing more than focusing on a list of set things [/QUOTE]

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