• Infynis@midwest.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It’s honestly amazing. Art is so much a part of what we are, that it’s common and expected for someone to have written a coherent and insightful metaphor for their own life into their role in a fun make believe game.

    But also, don’t talk to me, or my emotionally stunted, queer-coded, dissatisfied accountant, who quit his job to take up a life of crime, ever again!

  • Archpawn@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’m terrible at coming up with backstories. I guess that means I don’t have any insecurities.

    • swim@slrpnk.net
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      2 months ago

      Can you remember the first time you felt insecure about your ability to come up with backstories? What was that like? And so on

  • stingpie@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I deliberately create characters which have an interesting dynamic with other player’s characters.

    That either tells you nothing about me, or everything about me.

    • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 months ago

      Well, you sound like a team player. You place the common good (fun together) higher than individual ambitions (or maybe place your own worth very low, I can’t tell from one sentence, but the outcome is the same).

      Saying deliberately sounds like it’s not just a thing that you find yourself doing again and again, but a conscious choice. That suggests there was a choice to make; that the option of playing a self-centered character was something you were actively aware of, but were sufficiently repulsed by it to make a point of being better than those people.

      I think you’re a nice person, empathetic, while not so entirely innocent as to not even consider the possibility, still principled and caring enough to actively defy it.

      I think you’re a net good for this world.

  • Courant d'air 🍃@jlai.lu
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    2 months ago

    I heard a story about a therapist that used RPGs as a tool to diagnose patients. They held group sessions with several patients and then had a private session with each of them to debrief.

    I’m convinced a lot of things can reflect on the way people play and make up their character.

    • shneancy@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Every work of artistic expression, from painting, through photography, all the way to fantasy improv, is a little window into who you are

      the imaginary you is being put in various situations, mysteries, plots, and they have to figure out their way to victory! (and at the same time reveal exactly how you appraoch problem solving, how your logic works, and what assumptions you make)

      it’s like the random shapes test but you don’t even realise you’re doing it

      though it could get significantly harder to see through the layers of fantasy if you’re dealing with experienced roleplayers playing their 50th character