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@seraphina.diceexploder.com

For Halloween, I'm embracing my most diabolical impulses. To that end, I've written a player advice manifesto on the One True Way to play games- Pawn Stance. Read it, and be horrified at the lack of nuance. Come fight me about it, if you dare. diceexploder.com/posts/pawn-s...

diceexploder.comPawn Stance is Objectively Correct* - Dice Exploder*and if you disagree you’re doing it wrong. Defining our TermsPawn Stance is an approach to play that treats the characters and events of your game as tools for...

Khantalas

@khantalas.bsky.social

but I don't want to have goals or fun, I want to have truths otherwise undiscoverable

Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 Metatopia

@seraphina.diceexploder.com

sounds like that's a goal you have then!

Khantalas

@khantalas.bsky.social

it should not be my goal, it should be the game's goal for me

Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 Metatopia

@seraphina.diceexploder.com

the game-text is an inanimate object, it can't have goals. you are a person with interiority, so you have goals when you take actions, however subconcious or unstated they may be. "I'm going to approach this game with an open mind and have whatever experience it provides" is a goal

15/10/26, 3:08 pm0 reposts1 like

Khantalas

@khantalas.bsky.social

I would question the idea of having an interiority any more complex than a Chinese room thought experiment, but also the game is (hopefully) a proxy for its designer, who (also hopefully and presumably) had goals for their art they wanted to express

Khantalas

@khantalas.bsky.social

I would rather have no more goals when playing a TTRPG than when watching a movie or reading a book or seeing a theater play

Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 Metatopia

@seraphina.diceexploder.com

the designer is usually not present or taking actions, and current book technology does not allows for books to take actions, so if their goals are to be achieved it'll be because the people around the table had a goal which included decoding and engaging with the text

Khantalas

@khantalas.bsky.social

if the designer is not present in their text than my only goal is to find a better text

Khantalas

@khantalas.bsky.social

that goal is independent of me playing the TTRPG though, so

Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 Metatopia

@seraphina.diceexploder.com

I'm not sure how I can be more clear that I am saying that the only actions that occur at a table are actions taken by the people at the table, and that otherwise the book would just sit on the table closed and unread, so i'm going to step away from this conversation. Have a good day!