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<blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 9125849" data-attributes="member: 53980">That just means that the choice of route has agency. Look at it this way. If I decided the players will be attacked by a vicious werewolf irrespective of their choice of route, that encounter is illusionism. It doesn't matter if they meet it on day 1 on one route or day 2 on the other. It doesn't even matter if there are some other encounters before/after the werewolf on one of the routes. All those mean is that the choice of route itself has agency. The werewolf encounter is fixed in their path regardless of that choice of path.IMO, if you instead have a random encounter with the same random table at point X on one route, and point Y on the other route, it's still illusionism, because we can presume that roll would have been the same, irrespective of the choice of route. If, on the other hand, the rolls for one road are pre-rolled and different outcomes would be used should they choose to backtrack to the other road, or different tables are used for each road, then the encounter is not illusionism. There are different outcomes for each path, even if they are randomly determined.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fanaelialae, post: 9125849, member: 53980"] That just means that the choice of route has agency. Look at it this way. If I decided the players will be attacked by a vicious werewolf irrespective of their choice of route, that encounter is illusionism. It doesn't matter if they meet it on day 1 on one route or day 2 on the other. It doesn't even matter if there are some other encounters before/after the werewolf on one of the routes. All those mean is that the choice of route itself has agency. The werewolf encounter is fixed in their path regardless of that choice of path. IMO, if you instead have a random encounter with the same random table at point X on one route, and point Y on the other route, it's still illusionism, because we can presume that roll would have been the same, irrespective of the choice of route. If, on the other hand, the rolls for one road are pre-rolled and different outcomes would be used should they choose to backtrack to the other road, or different tables are used for each road, then the encounter is not illusionism. There are different outcomes for each path, even if they are randomly determined. [/QUOTE]

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