The Cloak & Dagger show has lots of great examples of opening-your-brain-to-the-psychic-maelstrom-type symbolism and imagery. The characters are able to see people’s fears and hopes (respectively, as depicted below). These are always presented as hallucinations with metaphorical-but-clear impressions.
I personally find it difficult to come up with that kind of imagery on the fly when running a game, but the scenes here are so well done that I think it’s teaching me.
So, presented as an MC’s tool: Cloak & Dagger on Freeform (and Hulu).
100% Agree!
To be clear, I agree not only that C&D nails “open your brain”, but also that doing it on the fly in a game is harrrrrd.
I’ve not seen C&D yet, but this has made me curious about it.
Charlie Etheridge-Nunn – Love to know what you think.
I generally don’t like “exploring things in a dream” episodes (or that entire book of Amber, ugh), but I like this show otherwise and seeing you describe it this way makes me think maybe I was too quick to dismiss this aspect of it. It’s not just a gimmick in an episode, but something that gets carried throughout….
Oooh, I forgot this existed. Another reason to start watching it.
Next season in Jan, right?