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Character realization versus character discovery, maybe? I can’t help but see the desire to have total control over the character’s...

Fortunately, I’m not required to want or advocate for things that are practical. :)

Because there’s only one company doing RPGs at the scale that WotC is. I would rather see those production values turned towards...

Agree with this. To my mind, it’s similar to preferences between rolling for a character’s stats and doing point-buy. Some people...

I think it's pretty well established anecdotally that an author, in a non-RPG context, can be surprised, in the process of writing, by...

But we DO think this. (At least, I do.) I might arrive at a decision I didn't expect when play started over a particular scenario...

I mean, I do think demonstration of character concept has become a pretty central of play goal of OC/neotrad-style play, the type of...

To my mind there is also a question of how reasonable it is to come to a game with a predefined model of everything the character will...

Well, my post upthread located social mechanics within the broader context of mechanics in general; and located mechanics within the...

No one said they are. No one (but you, misquoting) said that no one would ever choose such things. But no one would have chosen them...

But it can’t be out-of-character if we’re using play to determine who the character is.

@Bill Zebub My examples include social/mental/emotional mechanics and social/emotional consequences: * A player submitting his PC to...

I'm not @pemerton either, but, to quote Vincent Baker, it's "things that no vigorous creative agreement would ever create" -- "outcomes...

Someone had to go there . . . {True story: in one of my long-running RM campaigns, one of the high-level mage PCs had a romantic...

I referred to unexpected stuff that no one would just choose here and now, if left to their own devices. I think it's definitional that...