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my big issue with your complaints is that you seem to view agency as such a binary thing, that you think if you fail a check that means...

I demand hard-hitting roleplay.

The thing I hate about 5e is where the GM has to physically punch you every session.

We should probably make sure the rules prevent it from ever happening, just to be safe.

This is because what you’re describing isn’t an example of thoughtful design. You’re just kind of taking an instance of D&D play and...

I am 100% for players wanting to use dice to give themselves cues to roleplay off of. It's the "players can't be trusted to make...

I find that this need for control over the PC correlates to the player’s ability (or lack thereof) to influence the game in ways “beyond...

My apologies: I responded even though the person you are responding to I have blocked, so I didn't have the full context. My bad.

This sentiment...which I totally agree with, by the way...is repeatedly countered with the argument "but some players can't be trusted...

And to me it feels like a violation of the Czege principle. I want players to have agency over judgement calls, where there are two...

If I already know what my character would do in a situation before it comes up, than why did the GM run the scene? To me, there's few...

The problem I have with this is that it puts a game like Pendragon, widely regarded as Greg Stafford's magnum opus, in the category of...

I totally agree. But I'm guessing the player would feel the same way...that the GM is being contrary and disruptive and maybe wrecking...

Or maybe not session 0, but certainly once it is understood what this player is up to. "Hey, look, I'm not going to say you can't...

I've always found those labels very....odd. It has always seemed to me that the version where you have to roll to be told how to...