This is another of those instances when someone has defined something that I’ve been blundering along doing it without thinking about exactly what it is that I’m doing. To the extent that I considered the question at all, it was as a technique I employed because I’m lazy and want the illusion of depth and reality without troubling to put in the actual work. Like a lot of these things, I sometimes instinctively recoil from the notion that one can establish processes and methods for achieving them, because the alternative is the grim realisation that I’ve gone about groping towards how to do this stuff really inefficiently and haphazardly…
Even though these shows are not fantasy they allude to an underworld that has depth and complicated inner workings without over explaining it that make you have a sense mystery as to how far does this dark world really go.
-Severance
There is so much ominous shit that happens that alludes to mysteries they haven't addressed. Season 2 drop this Friday the 17th ps.
To be honest: i have to make my mind up... I am not convinced that the sense is sufficient. This can work as a patch when you're DMing and have not a reply ready for the circumstance: it helps you in two ways! First because you get out from a cul-de-sac. Second because you throw into players' minds new info that can turn out useful as future hooks or evidences... for the long run, unfortunately, it is always better to build depth rather than providing its existence... my 2 cents! (Sorry, i found out I am not the only one thinking this way... Pls check Colin Duriez in his Tolkien essay...)
This is another of those instances when someone has defined something that I’ve been blundering along doing it without thinking about exactly what it is that I’m doing. To the extent that I considered the question at all, it was as a technique I employed because I’m lazy and want the illusion of depth and reality without troubling to put in the actual work. Like a lot of these things, I sometimes instinctively recoil from the notion that one can establish processes and methods for achieving them, because the alternative is the grim realisation that I’ve gone about groping towards how to do this stuff really inefficiently and haphazardly…
Hyperdiagesis is a concept I love but have struggled to describe simply in the past. Thank you so much for adding this word to my vocabulary today!
Of course! I only recently learned of it myself but like you had always kept this in mind.
Shows that do this...
-Breaking Bad / Better Call Saul
Even though these shows are not fantasy they allude to an underworld that has depth and complicated inner workings without over explaining it that make you have a sense mystery as to how far does this dark world really go.
-Severance
There is so much ominous shit that happens that alludes to mysteries they haven't addressed. Season 2 drop this Friday the 17th ps.
I really gotta get on Severance 👀
YUP!
The Darkness That Comes Before serious by R. Scott Bakker does an excellent job of "alluding" to bigger world.
You've broken this concept down well!
Thanks for the recommendation! I'll check it out.
To be honest: i have to make my mind up... I am not convinced that the sense is sufficient. This can work as a patch when you're DMing and have not a reply ready for the circumstance: it helps you in two ways! First because you get out from a cul-de-sac. Second because you throw into players' minds new info that can turn out useful as future hooks or evidences... for the long run, unfortunately, it is always better to build depth rather than providing its existence... my 2 cents! (Sorry, i found out I am not the only one thinking this way... Pls check Colin Duriez in his Tolkien essay...)