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The definition I use is from the dictionary Agency: the capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power. Theough in... -
FrogReaver reacted to AlexofBarbaria's post in the thread An examination of player agency with
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I'm not sure. OP's view is quite extreme. It implies Narrativist play isn't even possible with trad RPGs (surely it requires player... -
I'd like to think my response here was considerably more structured, especially as I don't give much credence to RPGs as an exceptional...
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FrogReaver replied to the thread An examination of player agency.My table has an inviolable rule that players can’t throw poop at each other. Do tables that allow such behavior have more player agency?
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If the game as written or as played doesn't allow for players to engage with the shared fictional space directly (ie, not through their...
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I haven't read the whole thread, but Im going to jump in from the OP. This is correct, and this is referred to as volition. Volitional...
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I haven't read all 19 pages of the thread, so if this has already been discussed just ignore me. Agency is defined as "inviolable rules...
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Agency over the character's psyche and also resulting dramatic beats. I think the moments leading to it were perfectly sensible. And I...
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Yeah, though I think all those are subsets of agency. And this is what I have said before in these agency discussions. Agency over what... -
Yes, 100% It seems to me that an awful lot of the arguments in favor of more rules...not just in this particular topic, but across the...
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FrogReaver replied to the thread An examination of player agency.100% this. In fact we could even describe such mechanics in more traditional terms as the creation of a random table where option 1 is...
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If agency isn't an unalloyed good, why is so much digital ink being spilled over exactly how much of it any given shade of play...
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FrogReaver reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread An examination of player agency with Like.
Right. The GM is right there where the fiction unfolds, reading the room and having their finger on the pulse of the events. That is...
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I am groggy and my min didn't clear, so I don't know how well I can state this, but for me the thing that has long struck me about RPGs...
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FrogReaver reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread An examination of player agency with Like.
No. In my example, it was primarily me, the player, who felt that the coherence of the fiction would be violated by strictly following...