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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 8668067" data-attributes="member: 467">Just an idle Saturday Morning Thought: as a GM, when I am running a game -- any game -- all I really care about is the players having meaningful choices to make at any given moment of play. It doesn't matter if it is at a dungeon intersection or shopping for potions or choosing sides in a draconic civil war. The whole point of the medium, to me, is to witness Player Agency and respond to it, in order to lead to more of it.Note that I am not talking about complete player freedom (Matt Coville has a great video on the subject of <a href="https://youtu.be/KqIZytzzFKU" target="_blank">Agency versus freedom</a>).  I think it is perfectly okay to constrain choices. in fact, in order to get meaningful choices, you HAVE to constrain them.I often find myself cutting stuff out of play that others might consider "immersion" because there's no meaningful choice to be made. Roleplaying shopping is one good example: the choice of what resources to bring on an adventure will very likely be meaningful LATER, but at the moment of play it isn't so I don't bother spending time on the shopkeep interactions. Other times I remind myself to make otherwise arbitrary choices meaningful, like the dungeon intersection problem. There MUST be clues about what might lie in either direction, otherwise the choice is meaningless.Like I said, just musing.</blockquote>