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JeffStehman
jbstehman

Sat

Dec 9
2000

20:56

screen time == roleplaying time

> From: M. Jason Knight 
> 
> Yes and no.  For you, yes - you were getting something out of the 
> session, taking "action" even if it was only within the character's 
> head.

Then I'm with you.
 
> For everyone else, no, except in pbem, where you can share your 
> character's head with others.

Or maybe not. (:-)  There's always after-game debriefing available.
But is it necessary for someone else to see it in order to consider
it roleplaying?

Incidentally, in my example, as I discovered later, everyone else was
getting quite a bit out of it, too.  In fact, it turned out to be
rather critical bit of setup for my character.
 
> That's the sort of thing that conventional character generation 
> systems throw up their hands in despair over.

Now you lost me again.

--- Jeff Stehman




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