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RPGs are games of shared imagining. The agency of those who participate in the game, therefore, is about how they can shape that shared...

For sure. That it’s incentivized by the rules in how characters advance is no coincidence!

I absolutely agree, but I spent years playing with a chronic GM who had ideas fizzing in his brain all the time, and most of the stuff...

Sure, linger games can be perfectly fine. There’s nothing inherently wrong with them. But shorter campaigns are good, too. Neither is...

Spire actually assumes a lot more agency for the players in terms of making broad societal changes a potential outcome of their actions...

I think that there’s an ingrained idea that longer is better. So that’s kind of the ideal that people shoot for, and then things fizzle...

Yeah, agency needs to he looked at based on the specific game in question. Sure, a game like Spire may have more consequences that take...

Yeah, I believe the same, and like your analysis of it. The system in use at the table defines a lot, in terms of what the game's...

These posts prompted some thoughts. A couple of them also relate to this post: How is it decided (i) what the quest is, and (ii) where...

It all comes down to three things: player input, GM input, and rules input. These three things interact in different ways in play, and...

I think the ones I've mentioned in this thread are: *Classic Traveller (morale); *Burning Wheel (Steel; compromises in Duel of Wits)...

In Stonetop, the cases where this sort of thing has come up has been when there's a risk involved and I "State the conditions and ask."...

'with more teeth' and 'the game takes control of your character' are not remotely the same thing though.

I’d say to maybe check out The Between. There aren’t any rules that would compel you to act contrary to what you think your character...

So, aside from Pendragon, and the very specific role of bloodlust/rage in Vampire and Werewolf, what are all these games that apparently...