Dear Goodness.
Jan. 22nd, 2005 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenstormYoinked from Breklor:
http://www.twinkies.com/recipebox/index.asp?cmd=view&id=84
Oranges and fried bananas for breakfast!
Also, roleplay (live action):
So I've been through a couple of live-action sessions now. It's definitely a very, very different experience from text roleplaying. It's the kind of thing that makes me want to examine the word 'immersive' a bit. Usually, in MUSHing, I guess I'm immersed in a story. I'm playing my character, and I'm aware of context and other characters and whatnot to some degree, such that if something happens that's funny in an out-of-character way, I'll be amused, etc.
In LARPing, I'm immersed in the character. In some ways, this is kind of crappy. The character isn't thinking about the large-scale at all, and because I'm so immersed, I'm blind to all that. I'm blind to context, I'm blind to what's going on - all I have to think about is what my char's thinking about. Usually when I play MUSH characters, no matter how weird or eccentric or malevolent they are, I end up really liking my chars. I have a great deal of sympathy and compassion for them, even if they're out there eating babies or whatever.
In LARP, I don't have enough time in-character to see the motivations and forces at work and thus care about my char. I just react. So I'm playing a kind of unlikeable char right now, and in a lot of cases I just... am not terribly happy playing her. When I sit down and chat with people out of character about her, when there are gentler in-character moments, then she's okay. The rest of the time, though...
I think if there was a forum to talk more about it, it's go easier on me. Traditionally I've always been about half roleplay and half analysis anyhow.
http://www.twinkies.com/recipebox/index.asp?cmd=view&id=84
Oranges and fried bananas for breakfast!
Also, roleplay (live action):
So I've been through a couple of live-action sessions now. It's definitely a very, very different experience from text roleplaying. It's the kind of thing that makes me want to examine the word 'immersive' a bit. Usually, in MUSHing, I guess I'm immersed in a story. I'm playing my character, and I'm aware of context and other characters and whatnot to some degree, such that if something happens that's funny in an out-of-character way, I'll be amused, etc.
In LARPing, I'm immersed in the character. In some ways, this is kind of crappy. The character isn't thinking about the large-scale at all, and because I'm so immersed, I'm blind to all that. I'm blind to context, I'm blind to what's going on - all I have to think about is what my char's thinking about. Usually when I play MUSH characters, no matter how weird or eccentric or malevolent they are, I end up really liking my chars. I have a great deal of sympathy and compassion for them, even if they're out there eating babies or whatever.
In LARP, I don't have enough time in-character to see the motivations and forces at work and thus care about my char. I just react. So I'm playing a kind of unlikeable char right now, and in a lot of cases I just... am not terribly happy playing her. When I sit down and chat with people out of character about her, when there are gentler in-character moments, then she's okay. The rest of the time, though...
I think if there was a forum to talk more about it, it's go easier on me. Traditionally I've always been about half roleplay and half analysis anyhow.
