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If you-as-DM put the Orcs there specifically because they were the Ranger PC's favoured enemy, then yes the DM in effect gave the player...

Right. I didn't describe any vessels as being present. Was that a good frame? Well, the player had no trouble at all declaring an...

Fair enough. I'm just going to leave off trying to contribute to discussions about this game. Nothibg I say about it is likely to be...

Because they were chasing some dude to stop him from murdering someone? They weren't expecting that dude to get murdered today? In...

So, if we are going to talk about Burning Wheel in terms of its play norms, we would not discuss the fitness of its rules to the...

That just brings us full circle wherein conventional play is assumed to be worthy of respect and less conventional forms of play must...

Can I check that what you're getting at is something similar to what I asked about upthread - that if we relativise agency to the goals...

People have literally said things like: Your play priorities are self-centered It rips out the heart of roleplaying It offers no agency...

Throughout the context of this conversation the conception of agency based on conventions of play not in effect in other games has been...

Sandra calls it "blorb" because she wants to avoid having the definitional arguments that come from people using the dictionary meaning...

On Plausibility: What I would say looking at my own GMing and self-scouting I have done after the fact is that I find say running Stars...

Since your play seems to operate under blorb-like principles, and you communicated to the player in the metagame that his choice would...

I think your ability to decide what your characters says and does should absolutely be considered part of agency. I also think the...

This is why, in talking about Burning Wheel, I've been focusing on the most important rules of the game: the statements of role and...

Well, I think that most combat mechanics can indeed produce excitement and drama. I'm sure we've all felt that thrill as a die is...