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Other Gaming => RPGs & Adventure Gaming => Topic started by: bayonetbrant on October 19, 2019, 08:31:38 AM

Title: "Bleed" between player & character?
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 19, 2019, 08:31:38 AM

https://nordiclarptalks.org/bleed-how-emotions-affect-role-playing/

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What happens when roleplayer’s in-game feelings spill into their real lives? How are role player communities affected by what happens in a larp?

This talk will explain the phenomenon of bleed in role-playing games and advocate for greater awareness of the phenomenon and increased discussion surrounding the emotional content of role-playing games.

Title: Re: "Bleed" between player & character?
Post by: bbmike on October 19, 2019, 09:27:05 AM

What happens when a roleplayer's in-game feelings spill into their real lives? I'll tell ya what happens:

(https://misantropey.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/mazesandmonsters1.jpg)

Title: Re: "Bleed" between player & character?
Post by: mirth on October 19, 2019, 09:57:29 AM

That Hanks kid never seemed right. Playing RPGs, cross-dressing, always talking to that volleyball

Title: Re: "Bleed" between player & character?
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 19, 2019, 09:58:48 AM

Quote from: bbmike on October 19, 2019, 09:27:05 AM

What happens when a roleplayer's in-game feelings spill into their real lives? I'll tell ya what happens:

(https://misantropey.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/mazesandmonsters1.jpg)

Yeah, I was thinking of that, too.

It's like, there's now an academic claiming that they have research to back up every worst fear of the early 80s RPG panic...