Actors playing roles can invest their characters with emotion and passion without taking it too far. Even if they're immersing themselves in a role, week in and week out, they recognize that they're separate from the character.
That's the danger in roleplaying games, especially those with permadeath, where the actors on these virtual stages cannot always distinguish between where the actor ends and the character begins.
I'd never say "don't care about your characters." You should care. You should feel the adrenalin pump when they're in trouble. But you always need to know, in the back of your mind, somewhere, that they will end someday.
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