This I think will be the first of a few blogs that revolve around actor stance, a way of playing TTRPGs I've become increasingly attached to. It's about how to make a character using a playlist, and why you might want to do that.
afcbrodie.mataroa.blog/blog/play-on/
Paul Musgrave's comment that "Substack is like if the Ferengi had invented “humanities”" remains undefeated.
Maybe something in there about nature as a barrier and drain on resources, vs nature as a source of romantic challenge…but that’s loose
I don’t think I can hang anything on it analytically, but, it’s fun to think about the scene in Two Towers where Sam and Frodo climb down a cliff, with the scene in Storm of Wings, where Tomb the Dwarf climbs up one
or, tbh, a lot of mainstream actual play, in which what is primary is the narrative they are sculpting away from the table. fiction-backwards: deriving the present from the past. fiction-forwards: considering all emergent possibilities from this present moment of gameplay & choosing one. then