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Shouldn’t this apply to you, too? Like… why is it a problem for anyone other than you to start out with a definition and assume it is...

No. My point is quite simple: imaginary things do not have causal impacts. Real acts of imagination - mental states in people's minds -...

When you say "not deciding outcomes on the fly" here, and the rest of this, does that mean that when you need to rule/decide on...

I hate to re-litigate the definition, but generally agency is meant to mean "ability to move towards a goal/specific result." This sort...

BW doesn't allow for avoiding rolls through the deployment of gear and resources. The benefit of planning ahead is improving your...

Imaginary things cannot have actual causal effects. By definition, they are imaginary, and hence have no more real effects than do...

Do you have a view on my question: If you are GMing 3E D&D, and a player builds a ranger with Orcs as a favoured enemy, and so that...

What are you getting at here Micah? The post were responding to was meant to respond to questions about where the personal part of the...

I would ask you to go back and look at the exchange again and see who is pressing who.

Thank you for addressing that very serious post in the serious manner it seriously deserved!

I’m focused on game play because that’s where player agency is found. Not doubling down. I’m asking because it makes no sense to me...

Wonder all you like, these were my friends in high school and thereafter. We liked the same movies, the same books had similar hobbies...

Why not? If you don’t know how a character will behave faced with a certain decision, and then we roll to find out… once the roll...

We end up discussing mechanics so often because discrete mechanics are sort of easy red meat, but the discrete mechanisms are really...

I mean, in backgammon it's possible to find myself unable to move - because I have a piece that was hit sitting on the bar, and the...