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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bloodtide" data-source="post: 9623353" data-attributes="member: 6684958">I would never use the words "player agency", those are your words, not mine.  I would say my players have the freedom to do and try anything they want.  For example in my game, no player asks me a question like "can my character do that".  That can get you thrown out of the game.  I want my players to just try it and see what happens.  And this works out great!  The good players in my game just try things...whatever they think of on a whim.  Sometimes it works, sometimes not, but it is all fun.The same...but different.A big take away is our games might have some similarities, but are each very unique.  While the other type of game you favor is always the same every time.As I have mentioned before, in my game we do nearly exclusively in deep immersion in-character role playing(the acting kind).Is this not moving the goal posts?  There is a huge difference between the games of "as a player you have agreed to go on this set adventure"  and "this is a blank sandbox for you the player to do whatever they want and me, your humble servant DM to just make whatever you want on a whim".Well, the DMG and Castle Guide have some farm related rules, and if your counting 2E as AD&D, and you should, there is much more about farming with rules.....but for the most part the DM would just make up a bunch of rules on the spot.  It does, beyond the rules.Sounds good to me, and I agree.Though I can see this as a BIG...really, really BIG problem for some people.I don't agree that we all agree.  I might note I am one of those amazing people that remembers vast amounts of detail after very little exposure.  I think you forget the big main difference between your game and others:I might glance at a note, say "nah", and just flick that note right off the table and just do whatever I want.  Big Difference.Well, my shorthand is more: some stuff I wrote down that I might or might not use.Yes, but not based on you following that rulebook word for word.I think you forgot an important one here:4.Portraying Sherlock Holmes as a player character in an RPG</blockquote>

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