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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8123828" data-attributes="member: 42582">To pick up on just a couple of your points:I agree that the focus in this thread on mentally picturing the GM's narration is odd. GM narration is not the core of the RPG experience - if it were, then RPGing would just be a variant on being told a story.Your reference to &quot;prescribed actions&quot; is also interesting. A narrow conception of action declaration, along those lines, fits with the assumption that the core of play is GM narration. Whereas once we think of action declaration in a less &quot;mechanical&quot; and more &quot;fiction first&quot; way, then I think it becomes pretty clear that that is where imagination in RPGing is found. That goes all the way back to Gygaxian dungeon exploration play, where engaging the fiction is key (think of ToH as a paradigm). I don't do that particular sort of RPGing, and I don't think you (hawkeyefan) do either, but engaging the fiction remains the core of my RPGing and hence the place where the imagining takes place.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 8123828, member: 42582"] To pick up on just a couple of your points: I agree that the focus in this thread on [I]mentally picturing the GM's narration [/I]is odd. GM narration is not the core of the RPG experience - if it were, then RPGing would just be a variant on being told a story. Your reference to "prescribed actions" is also interesting. A narrow conception of action declaration, along those lines, fits with the assumption that the core of play is GM narration. Whereas once we think of action declaration in a less "mechanical" and more "fiction first" way, then I think it becomes pretty clear that that is where imagination in RPGing is found. That goes all the way back to Gygaxian dungeon exploration play, where engaging the fiction is key (think of ToH as a paradigm). I don't do that particular sort of RPGing, and I don't think you (hawkeyefan) do either, but engaging the fiction remains the core of my RPGing and hence the place where the imagining takes place. [/QUOTE]

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