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<blockquote data-quote="niklinna" data-source="post: 8667654" data-attributes="member: 71235">This is mostly cool, but: I did some larping back in the day, and I very much wound up inhabiting my character and feeling his emotions and acting directly based on his personality and values, especially when hit by a major upset or shock to those things.It was...kinda traumatic, actually. My larp community wasn't really oriented that way (I hadn't even heard of nordic larp or jeepform yet), and they didn't know how to handle it. One person finally took the initiative to deal with it, both in and out of game. I learned the hard way to distance myself from my characters a lot more.My understanding is that in nordic larp folks immerse very deeply (they have jargon for it! &quot;Bleed&quot; and such). But this also means they have support for handling situations like the ones I faced. So, yeah, folks don't want it—when it causes problems. But when it's properly managed, it looks like some folks do.(Edited for clarity.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="niklinna, post: 8667654, member: 71235"] This is mostly cool, but: I did some larping back in the day, and I very much wound up inhabiting my character and feeling his emotions and acting directly based on his personality and values, especially when hit by a major upset or shock to those things. It was...kinda traumatic, actually. My larp community wasn't really oriented that way (I hadn't even heard of nordic larp or jeepform yet), and they didn't know how to handle it. One person finally took the initiative to deal with it, both in and out of game. I learned the hard way to distance myself from my characters a lot more. My understanding is that in nordic larp folks immerse very deeply (they have jargon for it! "Bleed" and such). But this also means they have [i]support[/i] for handling situations like the ones I faced. So, yeah, folks don't want it—when it causes problems. But when it's properly managed, it looks like some folks do. (Edited for clarity.) [/QUOTE]

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