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Old 05-24-2022, 09:01 AM   #65
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Default Re: Gaming philosophy conundra

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Originally Posted by The Colonel View Post
I'm told that a great many primitive cultures tend to have an endonym which, on translation simply means "people" and refer to all of the rest of humanity as "not people" (although polite translators sometimes parse this as "other people"). Sort of like a cultural equivalent of that theory of mind deficiency that makes toddlers hide by covering their eyes.
In an RPG, is the distinction between PCs and NPC a theory of mind deficiency?
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