[UA] Four Modes of Play

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

Thanks for this post.  I'm not on many newsgroups and
this just sparks my brain looking at it.

But, I wonder, what do you consider "metagaming?"  I'd
list my examples of it, except that I've posted so
much to this list in the past couple days that I feel
like I'm being a nuisance and my fingers are hoarse.

--- James O'Rance <jorance at hotmail.com> wrote:
>  >>>What I was saying above is that I've experienced
> two main modes
> of gaming:
> 
> 1. Immersion, where you try to fit yourself into the
> head of
> your character and react as he would react, and
> 
> 2. Token, where the character is just an playing
> piece/extention
> of the player into the game world.<<<
> 
> I've seen four main modes, actually. Rather than
> prattle on for pages, I'll 
> quote a post to rec.games.frp.advocacy on the topic:
> 
>  >>>
> Token play, in which the character is simply a
> bundle of game resources for 
> the player to manipulate.
> 
> Type play, in which the character provides a "shell"
> of abilities and roles, 
> and the personality is essentially provided by the
> player.  (This is not 
> necessarily "playing yourself" because the abilities
> and role may 
> distinguish the PC clearly from the player, but the
> PC personality is a 
> reflection of the player personality.)
> 
> Character play, in which the character's personality
> is distinct from the 
> player's and the player attempts to figure out what
> the character would do.  
> This is what most recent published rules advocate.
> 
> Mask play, in which the player imaginatively
> "becomes" the character and 
> knows intuitively what the character would do.  This
> is usually referred to 
> as "immersion" on RGFA; an older name was "deep IC"
> (where IC stands for "in 
> character.")
> <<<


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