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Sorry, it says in my notes the rollercoaster has an anti-magic field. I don't think it's realistic that you can swing your sword quickly...

You're the one making this binary. The discussion has been about different levels of agency, not whether it exists or not. Is it your...

Note that in both cases the players are a passive audience. All the creative decisions are made by someone else. In a theme park you can...

It's something that some people value more than others. Some people trade off a degree of agency for what they feel is a greater degree...

None of this requires a GM's thumb on the scale. It can all be done with open and principled resolution. You will probably be familiar...

How does the GM make their decisions given this to not constrain what you’re defining as agency? Are they open with how they’re...

But this is what I said before. You are petitioning an authority figure so you gain a special exemption. 'Please sir, do not apply any...

Boundless exploration within a GM designed sandbox isn't what is special about the medium. It is what some people like about some...

I've yet to see much that wasn't covered in the OP: What I see are a lot of claims of exceptionalism for a certain subset of RPG play...

I think there is a code here though. 'What would make sense based on the fiction' and 'fictional coherence' are both different ways of...

Your post took me back to these two Vincent Baker blogs: http://lumpley.com/index.php/anyway/thread/502...

This is amoral

I think the question here is 'who decides?'. If your agency depends on petitioning an authority figure for a special exemption, that...

This seems to me a case of using second person ("you") when what is intended is first person "I/me". Speaking for myself, when I played...

There must be a process by which the outcome of contested or uncertain actions is decided. If that process is 'apply these clear and...