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I’d say to maybe check out The Between. There aren’t any rules that would compel you to act contrary to what you think your character...

And here I am wanting 4E encounter powers and dailies for my martials. Anything to avoid auto-attacking!

That’s why I’ve tried to use actual examples from play. The Knight and Squire situation from Spire, my character Clara from The Between...

Because one of the two people involved seems to think it’s a possibility. I’d say the same if a player had an idea that the GM didn’t...

Exactly. I mentioned an example from Stonetop in a previous similar discussion, with the Storm-blessed Heavy having to roll to get their...

@pemerton has probably harped on the divide between “agency to shape how I think my character’s internality can or can’t be affected” vs...

I think discounting all of this and instead focusing on the loss of agency in the moment of play as the sole indicator of how this kind...

It is wilful by the player that that agency be limited. In the same way one can choose to fail a saving throw or be persuaded. They...

I will bang on about player agency all day, but "there are things modeled in the game, and those models create surprising situations to...

No, I didn’t. @CreamCloud0’s post actually made it clear. The reason it wasn’t clear is again that’s not how this kind of stuff works...

What? What’s Scary 32? The player decided to rank his Lust vice at a certain ranking. The player then decided to have the character go...

I realized after I'd posted it (several places) that the whole title-image group is way too low on the cover. I have since fixed that...

The proverbial spilling a cup of coffee leading to the full breakdown in the parking lot. It wasn't the spilled coffee that got you...

When I play, as opposed to GM - and these days that is primarily playing in Burning Wheel - I want to inhabit my character. One reason...

But who in this thread - other than you - is describing, or proposing, a RPG which involves dice rolls for your PC to keep/lose their...