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I still don't know what you mean by "author stance" or "actor stance" as you are not using them in the only sense I'm familiar with...

You've completely made up this "one true path" nonsense. I don't know what you're on about.

It's totally not a railroad. It's you as a player understanding your role in the game. Could apply. But the GM and player both...

I'm extrapolating the example into how I would generally approach based on my own experiences. I'm sure some people find it tricky. I...

You don't need to give a textual limitation when you're comfortable with the fact that the player is going to be a partner in helping to...

It almost seems like some of these threads cause some sort of "narrative panic", where posters can't help but look at and respond to...

Absolutely. It's right there in the word!

When you make assertions, I'm not obliged to agree with them just because you make them. You don't like player authorship, direct or...

I don't know what this means. As in what does it mean to "not agree" with how someone else plays a game? Some people enjoy wargaming. I...

And as you know, I find your play too much of a railroad.

The player just played their character. "Look, there's some weird runes over there. We've been stuck down in the dungeon for a while...

I'm not talking about preferences. I'm talking about accurate description. I mean, if I said that I find your game silly because in...

If I walk into a tavern and describe, in-character, an NPC in the tavern without waiting for the DM to narrate what the NPC looks like...

Obviously they don't. What makes you think I haven't worked that out? So you really are incapable of understanding play using methods...

The contents of a player's imaginings are of course imaginary (by definition). But the act of imagining is a real thing. What's real...