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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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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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

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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.

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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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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.

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Thanks to our callers, BJ and Jason. Thanks also to everyone who participated in whole or in part in RPGaDAY~

The second of three combined posts for the #RPGaDAY2023 prompts. Find daily responses at https://castingshadowsblog.com