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In the past I've argued that games in being constitutive of play necessitate voluntary surrenders of agencies. For example, I can play a...

I agree, but I still think it is good to have a sense of how it could impact agency. Introducing example: I have prepared a cool ranger...

To give a simple example of the potential conflict between prep and agency I'd like to offer an encounter from a recent 5e game. The...

I am not; people are not generally good at stating or expressing their assumptions. And when you get two or more individuals with...

Great! Because "prep and player agency is in conflict" reads to many that highly value player agency as "ALL PREP IS BAD". And I think...

But if you think I am talking about ways to address a conflict, you are misreading me. I will try to bring in another illustration to...

What, like a giant apple pie? Maybe a swimming pool full of ice cream? ...Oh.

Ouch, not sand - sand cake of course! How did I miss that word?

This is a complete tangent, but this just made me realise something I really want to share. In chess on a player's turn you do a "move"...

I've had a number of Traveller games go awry by players who were determined ot avoid any danger and find the best....checks...

You are in a dessert. There are nothing but sand in all directions. What do you do? This is an allorgy for a fully unprepared...

Sounds like you agree with me. Definitely sounds like you agree with me. You might be an outlier, because from what I've witnessed...

I am speaking to exploration as an activity of play here (akin to the exploration pillar and the described 5e play loop). Exploring your...

Unfortunately, some games—like D&D—don’t have social-specific resources to be drained, which undoubtedly leads people into thinking that...

The OSR has been quite successful in taking D&D/d20 and reshaping it to fit a concept. That is much of the point of the newer waves of...