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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8139637" data-attributes="member: 7026617">I think if you viewed it from a certain angle, you could argue the do.Bear with me here.&nbsp; Often besides making choices meaningless, the other way to defeat agency is to just, well, give someone no choice.&nbsp; If you're underground, trapped in a cell, and the GM's ensured there's only one way out, and that once you get there, there's only one path that isn't a dead end, you can make any decision you want, but none but one matter.Similarly, the more your abilities (or lack thereof) constrain your options, the less meaningful agency you have.&nbsp; So if your character has a lot of different functional ways to address a situation, his meaningful agency is expanded.I know its not usually what people are talking about when they're addressing agency in these threads, but its hard to see a clear difference in practical terms between &quot;All your theoretical decisions lead you to the same place&quot; and &quot;you really don't have a decision at all.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thomas Shey, post: 8139637, member: 7026617"] I think if you viewed it from a certain angle, you could argue the do. Bear with me here. Often besides making choices meaningless, the other way to defeat agency is to just, well, give someone no choice. If you're underground, trapped in a cell, and the GM's ensured there's only one way out, and that once you get there, there's only one path that isn't a dead end, you can make any decision you want, but none but one matter. Similarly, the more your abilities (or lack thereof) constrain your options, the less meaningful agency you have. So if your character has a lot of different functional ways to address a situation, his meaningful agency is expanded. I know its not usually what people are talking about when they're addressing agency in these threads, but its hard to see a clear difference in practical terms between "All your theoretical decisions lead you to the same place" and "you really don't have a decision at all." [/QUOTE]

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