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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9484184" data-attributes="member: 42582">What you are calling Author stance is something I am used to being seen called <a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/articles/4/" target="_blank">Director stance</a>:*In Director stance, a person determines aspects of the environment relative to the character in some fashion, entirely separately from the character's knowledge or ability to influence events. Therefore the player has not only determined the character's actions, but the context, timing, and spatial circumstances of those actions, or even features of the world separate from the characters.One reason I don't find stance especially interesting as any sort of litmus test is that it's very common to find people who insist they are Actor-only to also use Author-stance (that is, they don't distinguish deciding as the character would and *deciding for some meta-reason and then retroactively motivating the character) and to also use Director-stance (eg they make up stuff that their PC knows or remembers, normally related to the PC's background, and thereby determine &quot;feature of the world separate from their characters&quot;, namely, whatever it is that the PC knows about or remembers).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 9484184, member: 42582"] What you are calling Author stance is something I am used to being seen called [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/articles/4/]Director stance[/url]: [indent]*In [b]Director[/b] stance, a person determines aspects of the environment relative to the character in some fashion, entirely separately from the character's knowledge or ability to influence events. Therefore the player has not only determined the character's actions, but the context, timing, and spatial circumstances of those actions, or even features of the world separate from the characters.[/indent] One reason I don't find stance especially interesting as any sort of litmus test is that it's very common to find people who insist they are Actor-only to also use Author-stance (that is, they don't distinguish [I]deciding as the character would[/I] and *deciding for some meta-reason and then retroactively motivating the character) and to also use Director-stance (eg they make up stuff that their PC knows or remembers, normally related to the PC's background, and thereby determine "feature of the world separate from their characters", namely, whatever it is that the PC knows about or remembers). [/QUOTE]

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