Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8162770"><p>But they don't limit your agency in the setting. They limit what outcomes your agency can achieve. Lots of things do. The GM is going to make lots of calls about details in the setting. For example the Gm might decide the printing pres hasn't been invented yet. That is a detail of the setting. That doesn't reduce agency just because you, the player, can't start a printing press company in the setting. Any setting with any kind of definition is going to place limits on what can be achieved, not on agency itself. But agency is about your freedom to move and act within that setting. It is about how much the GM is obstructing or enabling free will. A GM who decides the brother died, isn't impacting your free will. I get that for you agency is about being able to say "I want this to happen in the game" and for there to be a reliable way to make that happen, but that isn't what we mean when are talking about agency (and again agency is a really important concept in the style of play I am talking about, and when people use it, they definitely are not talking about the type of agency you appear to be discussing).</p></blockquote><p></p>