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That’s exactly what we have been saying, yet it keeps getting major pushback. RPGs are different and play differently. It matters how...

But one does have a real mystery the players can solve. Again there is an actual mystery to solve in the approach Hawkeye is describing

A mystery is mental. The game is mental. Solving both is a mental exercise. The game can have a real mystery. Doesn't stop it from...

Agreed. Perfect situational awareness is not a prerequisite for having agency. I think real time strategy games with permanent fog of...

I don't think we are going to resolve this, but the issue is the kind of agency you are talking about, can remove the kind of agency he...

They aren't all the same. You can't pick one kind of agency and then say that people using a different kind are reducing/using less...

The narrativists have essentially created a new form of agency for their style of play, which is fine. What's not fine is to then say...

That gave me a lot to chew on. I read through the threads and saw many of the same basic issues brought up. How about this: We (our...

I think it has to. If you tell me that your character is going to take a running start to jump over the grand canyon, I'm going to just...

I think I might summarize the difference here as player agency over their character vs player agency over the rest of the fiction.

Then IMO that’s the crux of the disagreement. Play in narrativist RPGs is fundamentally different than play in non-narrativist RPGs. If...

Unless the DM is railroading the players though, what the characters say and do does affect play. That's why we use that as the metric...

Does that apply when the DM can say no?

Though it can be undermined by a bad roll instead. (And I broadly agree with the rest of your assessment.)

I've written some stuff about "ludic agency" before to try and differentiate this divide before, but I'm not sure that's your precise...