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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8162678" data-attributes="member: 42582">I think that everyone posting in this thread is very familiar with the approach to RPGing described in these posts. It is pretty canonical for D&D since the early-to-mid-80s; for RQ and RM as I have always encountered them (other than some of my own RM play); and I suspect is very typical for play of GURPS, HERO, Star Wars, and a lot of Traveller. And that's just to name some games I thought of now.As [USER=6785785]@hawkeyefan[/USER] and [USER=16814]@Ovinomancer[/USER] have posted, it seems odd to describe this approach in which the GM has all this authorial power, and yet to deny that this authorial power has implications or establishes limits on player agency. I mean, two such limits have already come out at length in this thread: I as a player can't have a character recollect the location of Evard's tower unless the GM has already written that into his/her fiction; and I as a player can't have my PC's hope to meet his brother have any chance of coming true unless the GM decides to stage the encounter.As [USER=6785785]@hawkeyefan[/USER] has noted, it also seems odd to describe a process of play in which a significant part of the player-side experience is declaring exploration-type actions that trigger the GM to reveal his/her hitherto private/secret fiction, and yet to react so strongly to the description of that as RPGing-to-find-out-what-is-in-the-GM's-notes. I mean, yes, sometimes those notes are written up in loving detail and sometimes they're being elucidated or even made up as things go along, but the basic idea is the same.</blockquote>

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