Power Button can put players in a grotesquely vulnerable emotional situation. In most role-playing games, from pen-and-paper experiences like Dungeons & Dragons to more physically active larps, players are meant to connect strongly with their characters. Role-playing is often about wish-fulfillment and power fantasy, the chance to experience life as an outsized hero or villain or to walk the line between those extremes. But half of the players in Here Is My Power Button are living out more of a powerlessness fantasy as they try to forge relationships with people who can easily break them
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