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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8669068" data-attributes="member: 16814">Because you can't not be yourself?&nbsp; When you do this, it's you thinking about how to be someone else, but it's still you.&nbsp; You aren't going to have thoughts or feelings that wouldn't occur to you.&nbsp; And there's nothing wrong with that.&nbsp; The more I've considered this kind of play, the more I've moved to &quot;puzzle box&quot; play when I use it -- I'm presenting a puzzle to be solved that players are poking at for clues until they figure it out and solve the puzzle.&nbsp; The idea that I can actually present the thinking of a 1,000 year old vampire or 6,000 year old dragon or and immortal embodiment of elemental fire -- things that have radically different thinking than I do -- is increasingly unrealistic to me.&nbsp; So I either want to build them out as a puzzle to be solved or I want useful mechanics to hang my play on.&nbsp; Just freeforming is really just trying to engage what I think about immortal embodiments of elemental fire and not actually immortal embodiments of elemental fire (or what have you).&nbsp; I suppose it works well enough if I'm portraying a shopkeep, because I've been a shopkeep, but I still can't predict how real world shopkeeps will react to things very well, especially having heavily armed and pushy customers around thinking they can wink and get better prices.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 8669068, member: 16814"] Because you can't not be yourself? When you do this, it's you thinking about how to be someone else, but it's still you. You aren't going to have thoughts or feelings that wouldn't occur to you. And there's nothing wrong with that. The more I've considered this kind of play, the more I've moved to "puzzle box" play when I use it -- I'm presenting a puzzle to be solved that players are poking at for clues until they figure it out and solve the puzzle. The idea that I can actually present the thinking of a 1,000 year old vampire or 6,000 year old dragon or and immortal embodiment of elemental fire -- things that have radically different thinking than I do -- is increasingly unrealistic to me. So I either want to build them out as a puzzle to be solved or I want useful mechanics to hang my play on. Just freeforming is really just trying to engage what I think about immortal embodiments of elemental fire and not actually immortal embodiments of elemental fire (or what have you). I suppose it works well enough if I'm portraying a shopkeep, because I've been a shopkeep, but I still can't predict how real world shopkeeps will react to things very well, especially having heavily armed and pushy customers around thinking they can wink and get better prices. [/QUOTE]

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