Defining Fun, What it says on the tin. Options

[Pendaric]

There has been several similar threads on what you like in shadowrun. This is more in general what makes roleplay fun for you. I let a mod make the descision if this should be moved to general gaming.

It been said roleplay is a game, you play it for fun.
For me this is true but incomplete. Painting is putting swirls of colour on a canvas. poems are strokes of ink on a page, sculpture is a rock with bits knocked off.

So as you can see I am a proponent of Roleplay is Art group.

there has been plenty of attempts to catagorize themes of roleplayer and so we have names that become slang. Just outline what you like.

I have been labelled a story orintated ref. I am not. I am an experence orintated player and ref.
What I enjoy, what I love, is the moment when the rules, the plot, the characters, the story fade away. When you know that the people play with you are gone, and you feel and think as another person in another world.

And when I get right, that moment stretchs and intensifies with the course of the events of your character/your life. Some part of you is calculating dice odds but your thinking" can I make that jump?"
Hand roll dice and its" Will he betray me?" Your roleplaying but feel, "Can I justify bringing a child into this world with the life I lead?"

And when I get it just right, helped by the ref and the other players, we drop out of character at the end of that moment. And not only have we had a blast, we take something real back with us, an insight or outlook from walking insome else shoes for a few hours.

So amounst the make believe and lets pretend, just like good art, you have felt or learned something real.

Floors open ladies and gents.