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All of these read like boogeyman versions of what someone who has never played with a metacurrency thinks that they are.

I've been fine with them ever since I was introduced to them in the Ghostbusters roleplaying game. For me... there is a distinct split...

I love them. For decades, at least in the circles I ran in, it felt like the holy grail of gaming experiences was when you'd have a...

The salient point is that it brings out the unwanted. There is a conflict between what the fiction demands and what you the player would...

I'd go so far as to say that it's either the player or it's just an auton or script. This hypothetical internal model suggests that all...

No, I get it. I’ve done it before. But I think the distinction here is I perceive that external model as still being you. A set of...

This is why, upthread, I wondered about Goading Attack and Menacing attack:

There's a lot of subjective opinion and personal preference here. A specific definition of "proper" immersion. The dice "screwing you...

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?