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It is when players can introduce new information into the game world. Narrativists would say they adhere to the agreed upon fiction...

You said the following as a response to someone claiming that they have 100% agency in real life. "Everything in your life is exactly...

I am sure the language I would add would be deemed too poetic;). But that is honestly a much larger discussion, one we have had before...

I don’t think there is. I am not denying the role the GM plays or the role prep and notes play. I am saying this does not feel like a...

The Law uses so many words differently thank normal English that it is almost an entirely different language.

That is not agency. And that is the problem nowadays because the word has been corrupted. Freedom has been corrupted in the same way...

Okay that is fair. But I was responding to a person making a point about agency who also didn't make this distinction and just described...

No. In a game, you do have to work to have the kind of agency we have now but it is not about knowledge or ability to change the...

Ummm, the exact process you described is logical deduction.... It's a perfect and very detailed example of it.

1. Blind choices can yield information which can then make your next decision meaningful. 2. In terms of agency, a blind choice is...

How so?

Isn't it fair to say that any solvable mystery is simply a matter of gathering evidence and logical deduction from that evidence? That...

What other ways of playing to find out are there other than relying on random rolls? Player authored fiction? DM authored fiction? Or...

Even if all the people who know the answer are dead: there is still an answer. Something happened, and it can be determined by various means

Agency isn't the ability to succeed at things. It's just the ability to say or attempt to do whatever you want. So with full agency he...