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In the first post, I'm saying, "People can enjoy whatever they like in their own games." In the second, I'm saying, "This is how I...

I took you up on that challenge and googled away. Turns out I still couldn't find anyone claiming there to be two types of player...

Take it easy, sport. People can hide rolls if they want to because of some minor crossing of the character/player barrier that a roll...

This whole thing came from somebody else saying "if players are allowed to roll or know outcomes, they will Play Bad Because Metagaming."

Yeah, motion to strike this specific sub-tangent from the discussion lol. I think we all wandered away from the fairly minor point...

No, I didn't "give" them any information. The example was a failed roll making the player think something more is going on. I said "go...

The example that started this avenue of discussion was about a failed roll to notice a secret door. I'm not saying to tell the players...

But isn't the player of BW doing the same thing? They've chosen to have certain traits called into question. Am I brave enough to face...

Well sure, if your chosen play style centers on withheld information then clearly giving it is going to spoil things. But like, I'm not...

Consider a RPG - of which there are several - in which (i) players, as part of the build and play of their PCs, are expected/required to...

I can see how it may not be to their preference, but I don't really see how it affects their agency. Like, if they have some meta...

The implicit permission of a PBTA or FITD with its GM moves that say "when the players look to you for what happens next, do a thing"...

Is your contention that any game mechanic that would prevent the player from deciding every single their character says and does, such...

Who cares if they act on the meta-information? It's just information that's available to them. Let it be a hunch that the character has...

Well, @Maxperson appears to think that there is no difference, in degrees of agency, between a living world sandbox and an AP: