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<blockquote data-quote="prabe" data-source="post: 8165004" data-attributes="member: 7016699">This seems likely to be true. While I wouldn't deny that choosing between multiple undesirable outcomes could be meaningful, I'd find it an unpalatable choice to be forced to make as recreation; which seems to indicate they're at least sometimes separable.I don't think I have a particularly relevant opinion on this.I found that sharing worldbuilding (before and/or during a campaign) made it harder for me to run the setting with a degree of consistency that I'm happy with. I have expressed this as, roughly, &quot;the setting I was running felt incoherent to me.&quot; I found when I was playing (not running) a game wherein the players could change elements of the setting (at will, by spending currency/tokens) that the setting eventually felt kinda incoherent to me as a player, but there were other issues with that campaign and that was not my largest problem with it.I'm specifically not saying that my experiences are universal, or even the norm.As with 2, I don't think I have a particularly relevant opinion here.The possible downside of this approach is that it seems possible shading to likely that none of these types of agency is purely binary, so rather than something like tic-tac-toe you'd be playing something like n-dimensional chess. Not that you should be discouraged, just that &quot;matrix&quot; (as I understand it) might not be the shape of the data here.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="prabe, post: 8165004, member: 7016699"] This seems likely to be true. While I wouldn't deny that choosing between multiple undesirable outcomes could be meaningful, I'd find it an unpalatable choice to be forced to make as recreation; which seems to indicate they're at least sometimes separable. I don't think I have a particularly relevant opinion on this. I found that sharing worldbuilding (before and/or during a campaign) made it harder for me to run the setting with a degree of consistency that I'm happy with. I have expressed this as, roughly, "the setting I was running felt incoherent to me." I found when I was playing (not running) a game wherein the players could change elements of the setting (at will, by spending currency/tokens) that the setting eventually felt kinda incoherent to me as a player, but there were other issues with that campaign and that was not my largest problem with it. I'm specifically not saying that my experiences are universal, or even the norm. As with 2, I don't think I have a particularly relevant opinion here. The possible downside of this approach is that it seems possible shading to likely that none of these types of agency is purely binary, so rather than something like tic-tac-toe you'd be playing something like n-dimensional chess. Not that you should be discouraged, just that "matrix" (as I understand it) might not be the shape of the data here. [/QUOTE]

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