Observations of the Fox

    It's an interesting theory, and I've certain seen players like this at a number of tables that Ive either been a part of, or have run, at various stages over the past few decades. In the last couple of posts I mentioned narcissistic players, and this is certainly in the same ballpark as that phenomenon (I can almost hear the player screaming "Fake News") . The screenshot post goes into a bit of depth, regarding the subcategories and it's nice to see a social media post that actually scratches a bit below the surface. I've heard players explicitly use each of the types of displacement mentioned, and in some cases I can think of players who've used multiple examples during my time gaming with them... however, when things go well, they love the GM, they love the rule systems, they love the unfolding story, (they typically see everyone else in the group as supporting characters to their success, and don't often think about them) . If this type of play...

The liminal space is a powerful thing. The idea of being able to step out of yourself for a couple of hours, inhabit a character in a shared world with friends, where there is a ritual8se space with instruments sacred to the moment like dice and possibly maps, figurines, tokens, cards, or anything else that might help create a stronger link between the real and the imagined. Texts that describe the interactions within the world, or how the sacred instruments can be utilised to affect the imagined world. Some of that text is written by Prophets (game designers), published in hardback and purchased...other parts of the text are defined by the the local arbiter/priest (DM/GM/MC/etc.), perhaps in hastily written notepads and journals, maybe printed in a folder... then there's the elements of the text written by the congregation (the players), who might be writing accounts of their own experiences in the liminal world, and those accounts may be fed back into the space when the GM says ...