To understand subcreation, one must start with J.R.R. Tolkien. In his seminal essay On Fairy-Stories (1939), Tolkien formulated the concept that would become the bedrock of modern fantasy theory.
In literature, subcreation is the domain of the author (Tolkien building Middle-earth). In gaming, subcreation is the domain of the player. subcreation
: A successful subcreation achieves the "inner consistency of reality," allowing a reader to enter a state of "Secondary Belief" where the rules of that world are accepted as true as long as the reader is "inside" the story. To understand subcreation, one must start with J
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