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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8157020"><p>No the players are. This is the whole point. When the GM is acting as an honest arbiter and referee of the world, the fact that you have a human mind reacting to what the players say they want to do, is giving power to the players. Again, maybe this bugs you, maybe you don't trust most GMs to do this well, I don't know. But from my experience of play, this is the thing that makes RPGs so liberating: I can literally try everything and the GM has to react. Sometimes the GM will draw on a mechanic to help aid the decision (sometimes you do need randomness or a procedure), but the point is a GM can contemplate and respond in a way no computer, system or board game can. And this was instantly clear to me the moment I sat down to play the first time, and all those boring dice, pens, paper, magically disappeared as I felt like I was really present in a fictional world. To me that is the height of agency: the sense that you are making real decisions and having real impact with those choices.</p></blockquote><p></p>