| From: | Gurth gurth@******.nl |
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| Subject: | Types of players (was Re: Power Gaming and Benchmarking (Long)) |
| Date: | Mon, 26 Jun 2000 19:06:16 +0200 |
was...
> If you want to get deeply psychological about this, you could read into it
> that it's a matter of how much a person likes themselves. If there's
> something they want to be, they're going to show that in their character. If
> they like the way they are, then the character will be just like them.
Another way of looking at it is that people playing characters who are
like their players, are perhaps afraid of trying something new, or are
turning their characters into an ideal self-image, because usually the
character will be "better" (in whatever way you want to interpret that)
than the player is.
> Freud and Co. would probably have a field day with gaming groups!
I am getting a feeling that most of us here should try to avoid ending up
in a psychologist's office at all cost :)
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