If your sessions are anything like mine, a lot of ludicrous stuff gets said by the participants. RPGs put people into imaginary situations via dialogue. That means people will say things in an RPG session that would never be said in any other context. Therefore, RPG play taken as a whole is a sort of Unique Utterance Machine. We are collectively reciting the Nine Billion Names of God, the spoken version of the Tower of Hanoi, the oral Library of Babel. The last RPG played will exhaust language itself.
I Love It When They Make It Easy
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The PCs are supposed to be finding a dragon because the Half-King of
Broceliande wishes to talk to a dragon.
They decided to look for Naga Malicinda, w...
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I was going to say creating strange microcosm realities that the multiverse can't get any other way... but the unique utterances is good, too.
ReplyDeleteAnd sometimes, we're the monkeys with the typewriter, doing the exact same thing. Only sillier, and sometimes funnier.
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