May 25, 2006
Role Playing introspection
Every year or so I rediscover Black Hat Matt's essays page. While I don't much like the styles of some of his contributing writers, Matt himself has voice that I find both insightful and interesting. He's very practical and he has great deal of experience to draw on when writing about gaming.
My very favorite (so far) are his articles about what beautiful players are made of (there are two of them). I stumbled across them years ago, via I know not where. They really changed how I used to look at being a player. I never really thought about my faults but was prone to see the faults of other players which I did not share.
While I definitely don't think his is the only way to look at "what I can do to be a better player", it helped me to be more introspective and consider my faults more objectively.
I'd like to think that I'm a bit more Apparent and have more Initiative now, because I chose to try to improve the flaws I have that these essays helped me to understand.
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