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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 8139013" data-attributes="member: 7025508">Good that the concept is recognised. The issue may be avoided for your satisfaction, but necessarily for mine.You have simply moved the decision from a GM to a randomiser. I don't see how the player's agency is improved at all. Furthermore, the latter would definitely feel to me like I had less agency (albeit it can be argued that this is somewhat illusory.) In the first case I explored clues in objective reality and based on that concluded where the macguffing was. If I would be correct, I would feel accomplished and if not, well, then then I obviously missed some clues or misinterpreted them and I can try to do better. My decisions mattered and I did something real (or at least it appeared so to me. It really doesn't matter what the GM did behind the curtains if I never know it.) In the latter case the reality does not appear real, it is generated by me rolling the dice, there was no correct answer to be found, it was just ad lib and RNG. Perhaps it could make a nice story, but I would feel that my actions really didn't matter.</blockquote>