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Since your play seems to operate under blorb-like principles, and you communicated to the player in the metagame that his choice would...

Yes. If you're describing RPG play in a more technical space like this thread, that's exactly how you should describe things. Because...

Stating "you don't have as much agency as you might think you have" isn't diminishing your agency; it simply makes you feel as though...

I'll be honest, if you can't understand @pemerton's posts, that's a "you" thing. Everything in @pemerton's posts here I've seen is laid...

My observation that fictional things don't have real world effects is simply that effects in the real world have real causes. And...

This is why, in talking about Burning Wheel, I've been focusing on the most important rules of the game: the statements of role and...

Which is fine, but having perfect control over mental state doesn't seem to enhance immersion, like at all. It feels more like a...

Why is my emotional state more important, to agency, than that I kill the Orc? Of course a game that foregrounds one, rather than the...

I also strive to complete all my tasks and be a respectable, reputable person at all times in real life. Spoiler alert: I am nowhere...

No we did this argument already, last Monday/Tuesday. I think it went on for 30 pages and nobody was satisfied. :P At least one person...

The GM deciding to give you a benny because of your good thespianism isn't agency.

Yes. It doesn't say that you have to make a roll to make a decision. If you fail the roll, you fail at your action. It is making the...

I know, it's definitely not a great feature for a game that wants to exhibit verisimilitude. Having 100% control of a character's...

All let it ride does is elide place and time. So instead of a roll to sneak past these guards, then another roll to sneak past these...

I don't agree with your experience, of course. I'm just pointing out that I have no desire to engage with it because we just had this...