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You don't need immersion to play a role; that's the core distinction between a lot of our perspectives. Fitting a mechanical prompt...

I apologize for having gaming desires different than yours. I’ll strive to do better. “Actual roleplay” lol.

No, it’s you. That’s what having absolute agency over your character’s mental state means. Your character never feels or acts in a way...

I think magic typically gets a pass in these situations because it’s not the game telling a player how a character feels so much as how...

But it's not the character making the choice, it's you. And people make non-beneficial choices all the time when they have other...

Crimson Longinus has described his desire as such. What about in less than ideal situations? If the ideal is that you don’t have to...

And how do you pick among multiple plausible outcomes?

Not 100% agency. You’re rephrasing what I said. Absolute control of their character’s mental state and decisions. To never have to...

Baker talks about this in the blog post that I linked to.

I’m not using it as a term of art… just as a descriptor of some RPG play. And as I said, there’s a little of that in most games. But I...

You are wrong.

Thank you for making my point back to me like it would be news to me. Again, could. Not will. No, I think it is what was said.

No, nothing implausible. But why would a character choose the unwanted in a truly inopportune time in their world? And why would you...

Heaven forbid we have any power fantasy in our games where we pretend to be fierce warriors and arcane conjurors

I IRL could choose anything. I could choose to put my computer in the oven and eat my MERP books. But I won't. There is a difference...