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<blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 4713247" data-attributes="member: 15538">That is just not possible. You would not be playing a game, you would be observing it, which would make your role as a player a contradiction in terms. You also cannot simply channel a character, since there is no character to channel before you create it. Even if you are simply reading a novel, your experience of the characters in it depends partly on your perceptions. You cannot observe an NPC without injecting yourself into their decision-making process. You cannot observe any human being in real life without injecting yourself into their decision-making process. There is no outside observer, that is a fiction of objectivity which simply cannot occur.If you really want to remove yourself from a character's actions, try this. Run a game based on Lord of the Rings or Star Wars or whatever, but focus on the action of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, exactly as they would behave if they were real. The entirety of human existence is a blink in the eye from the standpoint of our Sun. While ideally, it would be nice if characters were sufficiently life-like in depiction to have their own agenda, it would me a mistake to forget they were created with a purpose in mind and that their existence is always subject to review. The in-world rationale is bogus, since there is nothing that logically prevents me from saying, in the middle of a heretofore realistic GURPS WWII game, that the Nazi officer they have just encountered is a vampire. Whether that is a sensible action or not depends entirely on what my players would think of that event.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pawsplay, post: 4713247, member: 15538"] That is just not possible. You would not be playing a game, you would be observing it, which would make your role as a player a contradiction in terms. You also cannot simply channel a character, since there is no character to channel before you create it. Even if you are simply reading a novel, your experience of the characters in it depends partly on your perceptions. You cannot observe an NPC without injecting yourself into their decision-making process. You cannot observe any human being in real life without injecting yourself into their decision-making process. There is no outside observer, that is a fiction of objectivity which simply cannot occur. If you really want to remove yourself from a character's actions, try this. Run a game based on Lord of the Rings or Star Wars or whatever, but focus on the action of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, exactly as they would behave if they were real. The entirety of human existence is a blink in the eye from the standpoint of our Sun. While ideally, it would be nice if characters were sufficiently life-like in depiction to have their own agenda, it would me a mistake to forget they were created with a purpose in mind and that their existence is always subject to review. The in-world rationale is bogus, since there is nothing that logically prevents me from saying, in the middle of a heretofore realistic GURPS WWII game, that the Nazi officer they have just encountered is a vampire. Whether that is a sensible action or not depends entirely on what my players would think of that event. [/QUOTE]

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