So many issues in #TTRPG sessions have to do with disconnecting what needs to come together. The game we play and the fiction we imagine in it. The person hosting the session and all the other people at the table. How we know something will ruin our fun but still do it anyway.
Disconnection between game and fiction is a bit like debt. You manage it but it may cause problems in the long run. Like not addressing why someone loses hit points and then, when they are recovered, it can feel cheap and hollow. Vincent Baker has a few great articles on this.
Disconnection between players is maybe more deliberate. People like to do their own thing on their own time. Characters and the world that they live in are created separately and then the whole thing doesn't fit. But let's put up a cardboard wall and ignore the disconnect :)
And the last disconnect I mentioned is inside of us, so maybe more philosophical. Why do we do the thing that we know will blow up in our face? It's a bit like we're doing a bit of tourism or maybe we're bored or let's just click everything on the screen and watch what happens.
And, on this last tweet, let me add another question to close this out: why are you rolling for it if failure isn't remotely interesting? #ttrpg #dnd
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