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This is really well said, and I would like to connect it back to the core assumption behind my Living World sandbox approach, especially...

Yes, based on your assumptions, that follows. But you're in a conversation with people who don’t share those assumptions. So the real...

Again, I can see how in BW this would be the case. I am not saying we can't have a discussion that accommodates different ways agency is...

You're affirming the idea that a fictional world has no causal continuity apart from the decisions of its author. That lines up with the...

Then you are using a very flawed definition of agency

I agree. The distinction I’m making between character agency and meta-agency is not meant to replace the broader category of player...

But we say this because we find it more complex than you are describing it. And people don't just stop there, they explain why. If it...

I’m not making things more complicated than they are. I’m pointing out that when we talk about agency in RPGs, the rules are only part...

So this looks like the summary I asked for earlier. Sure, and the point I’ve been making is that player agency has two broad types...

I tried following your part of the thread but it is so chopped up with quotes and replies it was hard to follow. So if @Maxperson or...

Yeah, personally I am not too caught up in how BW or other systems handle this stuff (if they are consistent internally, fair enough, if...

The rest of your reply does not engage with what I actually said. It mostly rephrases my position into something easier to dismiss and...

What I am doing is isolating the parts of your response that add something new or ask a direct question, and respond clearly to those...

At one point up thread I asked @pemerton whether my living world campaign was a railroad (his definition), at first he evaded the...