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Me neither, and it's like 8% my fault!

You guys are on your own. I can't believe this thing is still going.

But don't forget its also a thread talking about resistance to change within D&D fans, so what its done in the past is not really...

Yes, but the focus was on the conservatism of the player base. And one manifestation of that conservatism is the lack of recognition of...

Man, that's a really solid blog. Made me appreciate arguments for high-prep pregen play (i.e. "blorb" play) more than 6000+ posts here...

I’ve mentioned it before, but V. baker is much taken with her Blorb principles (and likewise she notes in there that an AW game run per...

Great post. That clears a lot of stuff up and really shows how you do things. On sandrasan's site she has a load of texts under the...

Believe me, I don't want to have any more discussions of agency. As long as no one asserts my definition is incorrect, we have...

When I said scenes/encounters could be an "indirect result" of player's actions, that was capturing the idea of the player's action...

That sounds like how I run a sandbox, not a "living world" sandbox. I'm trying to drill down as to how my sandbox differs from...

It is true, man. Don't know what to tell you. The point of rules isn't to limit agency, it's to codify who has the agency.

But there is an absolute scale of agency. That was my point. We, as limited humans, often tend to ignore larger scales when we're...

I think the sticking point is "the world around them is doing stuff". I think that's really a critical difference between the...

Let's avoid agency because it is a contentious term. Is the following objectionable: Burning Wheel offers slightly less autonomy (in...

It's just common sense. If a player can't do something in the rules because the DM has made a setting decision, the player has less...