I’m curious!
Oxymoron density is high in ”Immersionist co-GMing”!
Oxymoron density is high in ”Immersionist co-GMing”!
May 22, 2026 at 3:01 PM
I’m curious!
Oxymoron density is high in ”Immersionist co-GMing”!
Oxymoron density is high in ”Immersionist co-GMing”!
looks like vampire 6 is going the way of narrative metacurrencies and mechanized drama which i mean sure long time coming but also a pity as VtM spearheaded immersionist style playing for me
July 31, 2026 at 1:05 AM
looks like vampire 6 is going the way of narrative metacurrencies and mechanized drama which i mean sure long time coming but also a pity as VtM spearheaded immersionist style playing for me
Yeah. I have a couple of long-term ambitions I don't often fess up to, like bringing my own preferred forms of immersion to an audience that's never done it and might like it, including a certain kind of immersionist co-GMing I don't see represented anywhere.
Slowly accumulating the tools I need!
Slowly accumulating the tools I need!
May 22, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Yeah. I have a couple of long-term ambitions I don't often fess up to, like bringing my own preferred forms of immersion to an audience that's never done it and might like it, including a certain kind of immersionist co-GMing I don't see represented anywhere.
Slowly accumulating the tools I need!
Slowly accumulating the tools I need!
maybe i can cap off the final rulebook of 10k swords as my big epic ttrpg magnum opus. an excessively simulationist immersionist game in the now lost tradition of Artesia or Fading Suns or even Vampire: The Masquerade. then i can just go back to writing webnovels/flashfics/poems
September 15, 2026 at 4:36 AM
maybe i can cap off the final rulebook of 10k swords as my big epic ttrpg magnum opus. an excessively simulationist immersionist game in the now lost tradition of Artesia or Fading Suns or even Vampire: The Masquerade. then i can just go back to writing webnovels/flashfics/poems
I am back from Immersion festival in the beautiful city of Turku, the spiritual home of hardcore immersionist role-play. I have been a wannabe rapper, a failed performance artist, and an entirely malevolent Faerie. Mainly I have been with my people, eating salmiakki ice cream in the sun.
August 11, 2025 at 6:16 AM
I am back from Immersion festival in the beautiful city of Turku, the spiritual home of hardcore immersionist role-play. I have been a wannabe rapper, a failed performance artist, and an entirely malevolent Faerie. Mainly I have been with my people, eating salmiakki ice cream in the sun.
Immersionist co-GMing is exactly my focus right now. It's possible, it's not a pipe dream!
Yeah. I have a couple of long-term ambitions I don't often fess up to, like bringing my own preferred forms of immersion to an audience that's never done it and might like it, including a certain kind of immersionist co-GMing I don't see represented anywhere.
Slowly accumulating the tools I need!
Slowly accumulating the tools I need!
May 23, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Immersionist co-GMing is exactly my focus right now. It's possible, it's not a pipe dream!
Bumping this up to the top, because I think it goes to the heart of the matter: different games (and players!) are centered on different things. Immersion vs. crunch.
Still, as an immersionist, I’d love to see this as an option in more games.
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Still, as an immersionist, I’d love to see this as an option in more games.
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this kind of gameplay style really only works for high sim games. that's a specific genre of rpgs, not rpgs in general. some rpgs can and should emphasize more visible gameyness. roguelites (as distinct from roguelikes) come to mind, as does diablo-style arpgs
June 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Bumping this up to the top, because I think it goes to the heart of the matter: different games (and players!) are centered on different things. Immersion vs. crunch.
Still, as an immersionist, I’d love to see this as an option in more games.
bsky.app/profile/vera...
Still, as an immersionist, I’d love to see this as an option in more games.
bsky.app/profile/vera...
David Henry Brown Jr. is an Interventionist/immersionist performance artist and sculptor who works in diverse mediums, often placing his physical body into the work. Frequently riffing off of the dark side of American popular culture,
August 14, 2023 at 2:43 PM
David Henry Brown Jr. is an Interventionist/immersionist performance artist and sculptor who works in diverse mediums, often placing his physical body into the work. Frequently riffing off of the dark side of American popular culture,
(Actually I’m an immersionist as a player. Simulationism supports it for me, gamism can be neutral or mildöy negative, non-light dramatism/narrativism throws spanners in the works. As a GM I am usually simulationist but I’m a lot more versatile, and have unnamed stances like ”film director stance”.)
May 22, 2026 at 2:46 PM
(Actually I’m an immersionist as a player. Simulationism supports it for me, gamism can be neutral or mildöy negative, non-light dramatism/narrativism throws spanners in the works. As a GM I am usually simulationist but I’m a lot more versatile, and have unnamed stances like ”film director stance”.)
I've done it as a GM. It works great, but you're right it isn't compatible with a heavy immersionist "you only know what your PC knows" approach. Interestingly, this comes into RPGs early on; the famous Enemy Within campaign for WFRP has the players playing the participants of a trial.
February 9, 2024 at 5:17 PM
I've done it as a GM. It works great, but you're right it isn't compatible with a heavy immersionist "you only know what your PC knows" approach. Interestingly, this comes into RPGs early on; the famous Enemy Within campaign for WFRP has the players playing the participants of a trial.
🏆 It won the Cardboard Republic Immersionist Laurel for its incredible thematic depth! 🎖️ #Awards #BoardGames
March 5, 2026 at 12:00 AM
🏆 It won the Cardboard Republic Immersionist Laurel for its incredible thematic depth! 🎖️ #Awards #BoardGames
2/ Some other notable takeaways.
What we'd see as immersionist living world simulationist games he calls "storytelling".
He splits RPG as game into wargaming and power gaming.
(He's among the best of the theorists at trying to be non judgemental but doesn't quite manage it with power gaming)
What we'd see as immersionist living world simulationist games he calls "storytelling".
He splits RPG as game into wargaming and power gaming.
(He's among the best of the theorists at trying to be non judgemental but doesn't quite manage it with power gaming)
November 4, 2024 at 8:34 PM
2/ Some other notable takeaways.
What we'd see as immersionist living world simulationist games he calls "storytelling".
He splits RPG as game into wargaming and power gaming.
(He's among the best of the theorists at trying to be non judgemental but doesn't quite manage it with power gaming)
What we'd see as immersionist living world simulationist games he calls "storytelling".
He splits RPG as game into wargaming and power gaming.
(He's among the best of the theorists at trying to be non judgemental but doesn't quite manage it with power gaming)
Michelle Qureshi is bringing her crystal singing bowls, Native American flutes, guitars, capos, alternate tunings, and looper pedals to create layers of sound, to form an improvised and meditative composition for the listeners.
June 7 at Waynesville Music.
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June 7 at Waynesville Music.
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A sound immersionist will bring a unique show to Waynesville
For Michelle Qureshi, an award-winning classically trained guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer from Indianapolis, sound itself is inspiring.
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June 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Michelle Qureshi is bringing her crystal singing bowls, Native American flutes, guitars, capos, alternate tunings, and looper pedals to create layers of sound, to form an improvised and meditative composition for the listeners.
June 7 at Waynesville Music.
www.daytondailynews.com/what-to-know...
June 7 at Waynesville Music.
www.daytondailynews.com/what-to-know...
@ginnydi.com | Ginny Di: "There are 6 types of Dungeon Masters. Which are you?" | #TTRPG #DMstyles #Plotters #Pantser #VibeChecker #RuleOfCool #RulesSage #Consistency #Novelist #Storytelling #TaxiDriver #PlayerAgency #Tinkerer #Homebrewer #Immersionist #TangiblePlay
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There are 6 types of Dungeon Masters. Which are you?
YouTube video by Ginny Di
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July 17, 2026 at 2:25 AM
@ginnydi.com | Ginny Di: "There are 6 types of Dungeon Masters. Which are you?" | #TTRPG #DMstyles #Plotters #Pantser #VibeChecker #RuleOfCool #RulesSage #Consistency #Novelist #Storytelling #TaxiDriver #PlayerAgency #Tinkerer #Homebrewer #Immersionist #TangiblePlay
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Possible rabbit hole. Does "fiction first" link to the old LRP principle of "FOIP" (find out in play) or is that more related to the heavily immersionist end of the hobby? It was originally coined because certain players were seemingly incapable of not spilling OOC secrets I think.
May 10, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Possible rabbit hole. Does "fiction first" link to the old LRP principle of "FOIP" (find out in play) or is that more related to the heavily immersionist end of the hobby? It was originally coined because certain players were seemingly incapable of not spilling OOC secrets I think.
I think it's something that people feel rather than do, so you can have two people in the same game and one will experience it and one won't. (I used to think I was a pretty hardcore immersionist until I got to know some of the "play for bleed" people).
October 10, 2024 at 2:35 PM
I think it's something that people feel rather than do, so you can have two people in the same game and one will experience it and one won't. (I used to think I was a pretty hardcore immersionist until I got to know some of the "play for bleed" people).
The reason I said immersionist is that it seems like recent discourse on bsky seems to be leaning that way. As in "my decisions and actions have real in world consequences" but I also agree with you. I think of them as more descriptors or just plain adjectives rather than taxonomic categories
June 13, 2024 at 1:34 PM
The reason I said immersionist is that it seems like recent discourse on bsky seems to be leaning that way. As in "my decisions and actions have real in world consequences" but I also agree with you. I think of them as more descriptors or just plain adjectives rather than taxonomic categories
In my Shadowdark game, we were sitting around scheming and plotting an attack on a local goblins king, and it struck me that this exactly is what Blades in the Dark flashbacks are intended to get rid of. So, in a way, FitD is a rejection of immersionist/simulationist play that is big in OSR
June 13, 2024 at 12:45 PM
In my Shadowdark game, we were sitting around scheming and plotting an attack on a local goblins king, and it struck me that this exactly is what Blades in the Dark flashbacks are intended to get rid of. So, in a way, FitD is a rejection of immersionist/simulationist play that is big in OSR
Seeing this dynamic emerging from args posed by contemporary detractors and then in later demographic research on the mid- and post-Immersionist neighborhood. On the one hand there’s clear white saviorism that nonetheless serves to stabilize the population. On the other hand, vulture capitalism,
March 17, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Seeing this dynamic emerging from args posed by contemporary detractors and then in later demographic research on the mid- and post-Immersionist neighborhood. On the one hand there’s clear white saviorism that nonetheless serves to stabilize the population. On the other hand, vulture capitalism,
Well, I'm more of a "full immersionist" when it comes to social media, just curating my 'general' feed with blocks and mutes; not having any kind of hashtag filters here is freaking PRESCHOOL!
Also, I've gotten more threats directed at me here then on YEARS of Twitter.
So, it's not all roses here.
Also, I've gotten more threats directed at me here then on YEARS of Twitter.
So, it's not all roses here.
December 19, 2023 at 3:45 PM
Well, I'm more of a "full immersionist" when it comes to social media, just curating my 'general' feed with blocks and mutes; not having any kind of hashtag filters here is freaking PRESCHOOL!
Also, I've gotten more threats directed at me here then on YEARS of Twitter.
So, it's not all roses here.
Also, I've gotten more threats directed at me here then on YEARS of Twitter.
So, it's not all roses here.
There's a fine line of how much performing-to-others is considered socially acceptable, but the position of that line depends on play cultures.
In Nordic immersionist/simulationist scene the threshold is low, gamists don't care, and in some dramatist/narrativist scenes the more the merrier.
In Nordic immersionist/simulationist scene the threshold is low, gamists don't care, and in some dramatist/narrativist scenes the more the merrier.
March 13, 2025 at 12:36 AM
There's a fine line of how much performing-to-others is considered socially acceptable, but the position of that line depends on play cultures.
In Nordic immersionist/simulationist scene the threshold is low, gamists don't care, and in some dramatist/narrativist scenes the more the merrier.
In Nordic immersionist/simulationist scene the threshold is low, gamists don't care, and in some dramatist/narrativist scenes the more the merrier.
The only other Caledon paraphenalia I have rezzed full-time is the Penzance Founder seal above the doorway in my church. (I don't know if there are any other such plaques on display in Zindra! The First Church of Rosedale moved to the mainland before getting swept up in the Rapture.)
February 28, 2026 at 2:42 AM
The only other Caledon paraphenalia I have rezzed full-time is the Penzance Founder seal above the doorway in my church. (I don't know if there are any other such plaques on display in Zindra! The First Church of Rosedale moved to the mainland before getting swept up in the Rapture.)
Immersion is important, but not always necessary for fun, imho. The person that comes along and just roll dice can have fun without grokking the setting, while the immersionist is not satisfied with just rules.
November 15, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Immersion is important, but not always necessary for fun, imho. The person that comes along and just roll dice can have fun without grokking the setting, while the immersionist is not satisfied with just rules.