Thank you! This is always the first thing that pops into my head whenever I read somebody using “females” instead of “women”

I love Edith Pritchett’s stuff!

D&D with the classic Heroquest DM screen? Colour me intrigued…

Welcome to your doom!

Garfield and Jon at hospital. Garfield, his pipe lit.

Is this pipe?

As a Brit, I always assumed the American system worked like that because of freedom or something.

Pic-er-nic baskets, specifically.

If you’re using cameras, you could just use a prop to visually separate you from your character. Glasses/monocle, cigarette/pipe, an eyepatch you can flip up or down, etc.

The act of deploying the prop would also help as a reminder to use whatever affectations you might want to when speaking too. When you want to go back to speaking OOC, you can just put the prop down.