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That isnt; a limit on agency. Principe Apocrypha came up as did Old School Primer. If you read the old school primer, it is pretty clear...

Right there with you. I may, or may not, develop my character's personality as I game. Kind of depends on what kind of concept I came...

Yeah I think personal taste is complicated. If someone doesn’t like something, they may just genuinely not like something. People also...

Right back to the assumption of negative motivations of railroad or power fantasy. Remind me about how people don't claim DM's...

No. Hawkeyefan asked what seemed like a straightforward question and even though I wasn't who was asked, I answered it anyway. You'd...

If you, @pemerton, berate a local mechanic, this could result in the mechanic relenting and giving you what you want. Or, it could...

Fair comment. What I've been trying to skate around is having to get into just how much I detest and revile the sort of introspective...

The two biggest and easiest-to-see red flags: Inconsistencies in rulings e.g. when the same situation comes up twice, making a...

For me, I see the degree of stakes as being an independent quality of almost no consequence whatsoever. Consider two all-roleplay and...

I'd put it as more "game goes in, story comes out". We follow a bunch of mechanics and roll piles of dice on Sunday night, often while...

I'm there to play a character that - because it's my own invention - I in theory already know everything about that I need to know in...

I mean that the players are able to make decisions from the perspective of their characters with what feels like the same degree of...

Depends on your hobby. If your hobby is word games, Scrabble fits and Monopoly doesn't. If your hobby is boredom, the reverse is true.

I wasn't, really. I was trying to find out why you decided that one action was high stakes and one was low stakes. <double mega...