My second session of D&D was kind of exhilarating, I feel like this time around the game started to clicked for me. Plus, we played until 2AM, a full 6 hours of gaming, which also caught me by surprise.
The big thing about the game for me I realized, was reconciling the idea that the DM is basically my character’s memory bank.
Hisui as the DM has created the world of Atman, and he knows everything about it, but as players we only know as much as he wants us to know. However, my character Aranel (or any other character), is part of the world, so she’s supposed to know quite a bit about it, even though I as the player do not. So often times during the game I’d have to turn to Hisui and say “What do I know about this?” or “I think my character would already know something about this.” Then based on either his knowledge of my character or my skills which I roll dice for, Hisui would then tell me what Aranel knows.
Is there any other game that works so heavily on this kind of interaction? It seems unique to roleplaying. I found it hard to grasp the first time around, but felt more comfortable with it in this session.
Since I recently made guest appearances on two podcasts, I figured I would combine them into one post.
Reverse Thieves 