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Man, that's a really solid blog. Made me appreciate arguments for high-prep pregen play (i.e. "blorb" play) more than 6000+ posts here...

But don't forget its also a thread talking about resistance to change within D&D fans, so what its done in the past is not really...

Information is how players engage with a game. Any game. It doesn't mean that there cannot be hidden information. The board game Clue...

And that’s your opinion, not @AlViking’s, and not mine. If you view that as the gold standard, great for you. But it’s not the case for...

If you have read @pemerton's posts and gotten from it something so banal as that, I cannot say I believe you actually understood what...

Look, irreconcilable assumptions mean we see each other’s viewpoints as incompatible, only one can be true. If I’m correct that the...

Characters don't have any agency. They do not make decisions on their own. Their agency, like them, is fictional in nature. I think...

Great post. That clears a lot of stuff up and really shows how you do things. On sandrasan's site she has a load of texts under the...

No, there's only one type of agency we're talking about. It's that of the player playing the game. Player agency. It's about the...

Believe me, I don't want to have any more discussions of agency. As long as no one asserts my definition is incorrect, we have...

Can the GM cause the pirate crew to plan a mutiny due to the creation of a GM NPC pirate with a backstory and ambitions? Can the GM...

That sounds like how I run a sandbox, not a "living world" sandbox. I'm trying to drill down as to how my sandbox differs from...

It is true, man. Don't know what to tell you. The point of rules isn't to limit agency, it's to codify who has the agency.

But there is an absolute scale of agency. That was my point. We, as limited humans, often tend to ignore larger scales when we're...

I think the sticking point is "the world around them is doing stuff". I think that's really a critical difference between the...