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Welcome to the endgame. ;) One thing I recommend before starting is to curate what you want in your setting. For D&D, I literally go...

Spire actually assumes a lot more agency for the players in terms of making broad societal changes a potential outcome of their actions...

Yeah, agency needs to he looked at based on the specific game in question. Sure, a game like Spire may have more consequences that take...

It all comes down to three things: player input, GM input, and rules input. These three things interact in different ways in play, and...

This is similar in concept to where Kobold Press wound up in ToV (they added song auras including a positive and negative option) but...

In Stonetop, the cases where this sort of thing has come up has been when there's a risk involved and I "State the conditions and ask."...

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...