Joe Beason​ maybe like… Psychic position is your internal emotional landscape and social position is the interplayer (rather than inter-character) emotional landscape. If that makes sense. It does to me.

The interplayer thing was what actually prompted the whole post so I probably should have been clearer on that point.

I was thinking specifically about, for example, everyone talking through where to go next in The One Ring, how that’s not really (at our table) an in-character thing. How there can be leadership at the table that doesn’t reflect in-game context. Or how the pleasure and excitement people feel playing Torchbearer isn’t at all related to the fictional positioning, really, but to the push-your-luck decisions the players are making and deciding among themselves, or the actions the conflict captain is mandating folks make with the understanding that whatever call the captain makes is retroactively positioned in the fiction.

So, not just OOC but also taking into account who’s making the calls, how the table feels about that, stuff like whether it’s cool or not to start PvP shit, social contract, etc.

Aaron Berger​​ yeah I think so! Hopefully this clarifies what I meant.

I’m the first to admit it’s not a carefully constructed rhetorical edifice. I’m sure I could refine it down to something super specific and battle-hardened but I hope it doesn’t have to come to that.