Some links, at least tangentially gaming-related:
My friend Will Wilkinson on “Neurodiversity and Writing Advice” – sometime I’ll elaborate my half-serious theory that the central problem of roleplaying as a hobby is getting Aspies and ADDers to cooperate productively “The School of Night,” by Frederick Turner – I first read this essay about [...]
Ironically, I wrote last night’s post after one of my occasional “standing sprees,” which happened while GMing Nobilis. The PCs paid their first visit to Lord Entropy, and I played a good half of the scene standing up. This was just a bit of physicality welling up from a bedrock of yakking. In this [...]
I will now tell you why everybody roleplays. I don’t need any variation on a threefold schema, nor will I carefully hedge my claims. My theory covers everyone ever including you. Especially you.
People roleplay to feel.
There, that wasn’t so hard. You will object that I haven’t said much, like for instance, “to feel [...]
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