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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8158891" data-attributes="member: 42582">I think I've been crystal clear for the whole thread that I am referring to agency over the shared fiction. If the shared fiction consists to a significant extent of the content of the GM's notes then I don't think the players have a high degree of agency over it. Their primary function becomes taking exploration-type actions that prompt the GM to reveal some of that content in his/her notes. A really clear example of this sort of thing is a traditional CoC module.The more the activity of play moves away from those exploration-type, prompting actions towards actions that realise player-generated agendas, the greater (in all likelihood) the player agency over the shared fiction. Suppose that player-generated agenda requires a secret way through a particular wall: if this now turns back into a learn what the GM has decided about secret ways through this wall then play is returning to a lower player agency mode. A system like Burning Wheel, and in a different way Dungeon World, is intended (in part) to avoid such a return.</blockquote>