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I wrote an extensive and considered examination of player agency here: An examination of player agency It explains clearly why...

Player agency isn't a feeling. Player agency isn't subjective.

Player agency is a product of inviolable rules which a player knows and can rely on to achieve known goals. Its a product of all these...

Sure, that's fine! I absolutely understand that. I probably consider the game more important, but it's not like I'm setting up...

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...

I think which sorts of fictional situations you choose to have rules for is an aesthetic choice, not built out of necessity. We can...

I have been saying quite a lot that these things are not about trust. Like, when combat breaks out, I don't think to myself "oh...

We could enter into this situation through player action declarations, too, but I thought it was easier for the purposes of discussion...

Agreed. Though there can be more than that, too. As I've posted upthread (making the analogy to other games like bridge and chess)...

I remember I was not a huge fan of it in 3e because if you were not selecting it you seemingly became quite bad at something you should...

I think this is a really interesting post. I really can't stand Perception as it applies to modern D&D and similar applications...

I'm not objecting to anything. I am just asking questions. The examples I used have been those that others have posed in this thread...

Conversely: It feels like you aren't even remotely taking the discussion seriously, and instead treating it as an exercise in saying...

It is also condescending to answer a question with synonyms for "stuff" when folks have consistently asked for specificity.

@hawkeyefan is being explicit about his request because each time you’ve responded previously it’s been generic phrases. @pemerton has...