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Yeah. I've had to initiate as well, and that the group would respond. What I found, though, was that every lull in the game where a...

I used to think, but I remember that the point is to let the players choices drive the campaign. Not choosing or rather not being...

Let’s just say I’ve noticed that the quality of roleplaying tends to drop when Charm Person or other mind control spells come into play...

I've run into this myself, even when I worked with them on the initial context of their characters. While not 100%, I’ve found that the...

I linked this Monte Cook essay on agency versus narrative control earlier and I think it might relevant here again to what you are...

So I’m throwing this into the discussion of player agency: what’s everyone’s view on the structure of Dave Arneson’s original Blackmoor...

As I explained upthread RPG are not games in a conventional sense. The application of game theory has limited value because there's an...

Like I said above, I really like "meta agency" for the kind of thing you're talking about.

And if-when it does come up in play you'll sure be glad you made that list! For my setting I made up a list of all the Emperors the...

Even if you shift it to some other power structure, you are drawing from the same well as the all powerful human referee. And if you put...

I use metagaming but I acknowledge it is loaded term because of it association with cheating. Perhaps meta agency is the better way to...

I like this "meta agency" term coined in this thread by I believe @robertsconley . That being player influence beyond what the PC...

That’s where the issue lies,your approach places everything into what I would call the second category: metagame agency Meta Agency. In...

Not sure why, you seem to be knowledgeable about what constitutes classic railroading. That's because I explained this multiple times...