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I'm saying "if you say X, it seems like you have blinders". It's not an accusation, it's a description of how words come across in...

I think your ability to decide what your characters says and does should absolutely be considered part of agency. I also think the...

Player agency is a product of inviolable rules which a player knows and can rely on to achieve known goals. Its a product of all these...

Yes. If you're describing RPG play in a more technical space like this thread, that's exactly how you should describe things. Because...

Stating "you don't have as much agency as you might think you have" isn't diminishing your agency; it simply makes you feel as though...

I'll be honest, if you can't understand @pemerton's posts, that's a "you" thing. Everything in @pemerton's posts here I've seen is laid...

Can you clarify what RPGs you have in mind as "typical narrative-driven games". Obviously none of the ones that I, @Campbell and...

No one thinks it is impossible for the GM to make up ideas about the fiction, using plausibility as one heuristic. People do think that...

Why do you think that is? For instance, is it because RPGs that are intended to be played roughly in the same mode as conventional...

100% this. I could play the DL modules, exercising complete control for the whole time over what my PC thinks and feels, and that...

Evading? I don’t even know what you’re on about. I was, I thought, clearly joking in my last couple of posts to you.

First off, no need to be rude. Perhaps the algorithm works differently based on search history or something. Second, all I'm saying is...

Then all games have equal character agency! That makes it quite a useful metric!

I’ve snipped your post up a bit, not in any attempt to change the context, but rather to focus on specific things that jumped out at me...

I understand that it is not some wildly unreasonable proposition to say this. I'm not sure I think it is straightforwardly true either...