In this conversation with Roleplay Rescue's host and seeker of immersive and engaging play, Che Webster, we discuss some blog posts about techniques that Che is trying out to get more of what he wants out of play. As that quest is near and dear to my heart, I thought others might resonate with it as well. We talk about making room for imagination, facilitating a more active stance in our imaginations, and consider how we speak to one another when we play.

Podcasts mentioned in this episode:

Roleplay Rescue

Nerds RPG Variety Cast

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This episode responds to listener calls dating back to the last two episodes of the podcast and continuing the exploration of imagination, memory, and attention as valuable parts of RPG play. Thanks go out to Jason Connerly, Spencer/FreeThrall, and Jean-Francois 'SameOldJi' St-Onge for the calls and the interaction~

Podcasts mentioned in the episode:

Nerd's RPG Variety Cast

Keep off the Borderlands

SameOldJi - An RPG Catharsis

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runescastshadows AT gmail

This episode responds to listener voice messages, does a surface exploration of the experience of imagination and gets into some practicalities about the benefit of talking about imagination with your group. Listeners are invited to contact me via the methods below to share their thoughts on their experiences of imagination.

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Thanks to:

Jason of the Nerd's RPG Variety Cast

Che Webster of Roleplay Rescue

FreeThrall of Keep off the Borderlands (The new home of Movie Night1)

Joe Richter of Hindsightless

Links Mentioned:

Whispering GM episode - Confessions of a High Prep GM

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-whispering-gm/episodes/Confessions-of-a-High-Prep-GM-e2dr5lp

Roleplay Rescue discussion of the Primeval Fantasy setting with Daniel Jones

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1JnSM0P6bTn4nR5Ja8Mrr8?si=Mm3nYZ_bROWlDUzE-q35mw

Preparation is one thing that can benefit from change if you adjust your style or intentions for play. My guest has recently discovered a desire for playing more and more in-character (moving toward in-character as-character) and leaving room for immersion to happen.

WATCH ON YOUTUBE:

https://youtu.be/-01dPAKsvM4

MY GUEST: CRISPY of the @Tablerunner YouTube channel.

I have received some great calls since the last episode and I would love to include them in this episode as they are relevant to various points made throughout, but I due to the length of the conversation (1hr4min) I feel it is best to frame an episode around those call-ins and any others that come in the interim. That episode will concern itself more directly with imagination. Therefore, there is still time to leave a message via Spotify (if you dare), Speakpipe, discord, or email about how imagination presents itself to you. How do you imagine a moment of play?

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Send a voice message to CastingShadowsPodcast (speakpipe.com)

Featuring a call-in from Mirke the Meek, this episode is primarily a first conversation between Daniel Jones of the Primaeval Fantasy RPG podcast/YouTube channel and myself on the topic of in-character play through means intended to facilitate imagination and hopefully immersion in the character's perspective.

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You can find my guest, Daniel Jones here:

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Che Webster of Roleplay Rescue was kind enough to return to the podcast for another exploratory conversation about learning and guiding others in their learning of RPGs.

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⁠Casting Shadows | Interactive roleplaying interaction (castingshadowsblog.com)⁠

⁠Runeslinger - YouTube⁠

The focus on Immersion continues. This episode explores how attention transforms our ability to perceive, receive, conceive, and imagine the imagined situations of our gaming into immersive and engaging experiences.

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This episode continues our survey of the topic of 'immersion" with the help of a meaty call-in from Safer plus a further look at the notion of examining the focus of attention through a split lens of immersion and engagement. Previous episodes on this topic can be found at links below. In addition, written posts supporting these episodes can be found at the Casting Shadows Blog:

https://castingshadowsblog.com/2023/11/12/on-immersion-and-engagement-in-rpg-play/

On Immersion and Engagement episode: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/WLHX56euFEb

Call-in episode on Immersion: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/ZvjRf5euFEb

Layers of Play episode: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/S1jutcfuFEb

This episode features a call in from Safer of Safer Fantasy Crafting. In that response, he mentions a session of immersive play which was recorded and is available to listen to. That episode and more of Safer's content can be found here:

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sfc-saferfantasycrafting/episodes/Minis--Make-Believe---A-5e-Lets-pretend-live-play-err6d6/a-a4rln9n

This episode features a call-in from Jason Hobbs, a recap of our current Call of Cthulhu campaign, and a suggestion for a creepy OSR dungeon experience that is PWYW.

Murcanto's Lair:

DriveThruRPG - Samwise7RPG

Check out the Hindsightless podcast for lots of RPG thoughts, recaps, ice cream, cereal taste tests, nature reports, and whatever else Joe has running around in his brain.

Check out Down in a Heap for thoughtful RPG musings on OS and OS D&D from Rob C.

Members of our Call of Cthulhu campaign are Ivan Podgwaite (YouTube), Joe Richter (Podcast), and Brian Courtemanche (CoC scenario author).

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[3] Ubiquity Roleplaying System Discord

https://discord.gg/MqFYW7DJpq

Thanks to our callers, FreeThrall, DarkFluid, Che Webster, Eloy Cintron, Joe Richter, and Jason Connerly. We have messages pertaining to the current topic of Immersion and how it intersects with our cultures and procedures of play. We have a response from Umbramancer to a call from the last episode by Jason. Umbramancer, or Eloy Cintron, was featured in the episode before that. That response connects to our D&D example episode about story as product vs story as by-product. Finally, we have some messages about Ubiquity in general and our recent Hollow Earth Expedition episode in particular.

[3] Ubiquity Roleplaying System Discord

https://discord.gg/SDxH9xQDfD