Author: Dungeon Curmugeon (---.192.234)
Date: 05-27-2004 19:18
This topic is more to my like. Pity you're calling it quits soon.
Some comments:
The vast majority of roleplayers still want to be able to look back on a roleplaying session or extended campaign and see a cohesive narrative.
Personally, I don't think so. I don't care about what I see when I look back. I want a experience a narrative while playing.
The gist is that it looks bloody likely that stage theatre arose from practices where no clear distinction can be made between performer and spectator; from processions, magic rites, feasts, and initiations.
-- Martin Ericsson
This made me think of Chinua Achebe's _Things Fall Apart_ in which honored men in the village got to wear masks and take the roles, and in a sense become, the gods at various village functions.
I am not certain, but I think there was a vibe in your article that when balancing between "In" and "Out" that you wind up with less of either. I think that properly balanced both are highened until the experience as a whole becomes more than the sum of its parts.
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