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Ok, granted. Such games exist, and some people enjoy them. Others do not. Is there any conclusion that can be drawn from this, other...

Your sarcasm is not doing you favors. I literally just said this isn't a criticism. You would think I had pissed in someone's cheerios...

.... You are making this point to me when I literally gave a spectrum of options about this as one of my first posts in the thread, and...

I make no claim that CYOA books are sandboxes. But, it isn't like all adventures or campaigns are either clearly a sandbox, or clearly...

There's a lot too unpack here. At the surface, the implicit analogy of the original has merit. Both are about the mechanized mass...

I enjoy engaging with you about a lot of things. But such explicit ageism is something I'm just not comfortable going further with...

It is pretty much the only agency that matters to me as a player, certainly after play begins.

which is fine if you feel that way but keep in mind for many people this isn’t minimal at all. And for some it may even be the most...

All this argument over a bunch of mechanics and rules "to protect poor weak, innocent players against imaginary, despotic GMs, who just...

I don't offer them as universal solve, only as potential one. But that human element certainly is what is unique to RPGs. (For now, we...

And I think it is important to point out this isn't what people sometimes call magic tea party. No one is saying there aren't rules. I...

Me too. I just have a hard time staying away from it, at least until the jargon gets too thick for me.

I don't know what principled means here. I'm really out of my depth here and I should have thought twice before posting in a thread...

Folks just gotta accept that people have different lines and degrees on the subject. If you feel sandbox must contain x,y,z agency...

Never said they did. We all have our preferences, and none superior or more important than any other.