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<blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 9555065" data-attributes="member: 467">Again, I think that the definition of &quot;player agency&quot; can be distilled to &quot;meaningful choice&quot; and those meaningful choices exist on every level of play -- from the round by round tactical choices of combat, to the broad strokes Session 0 decisions of the campaign setup.As it relates to Quantum ogres: player agency is preserved as long as meaningful choices are presented. those meaningful choices aren't limited to &quot;whether to go left or right to avoid or encounter the ogres.&quot; It doesn't necessarily remove player agency for the ogre encounter to be predetermined as long as the play of that encounter involves meaningful choices (sneak around, bribe it with something to eat, kill it, whatever). Of course in a perfect world the players could choose to do anything and go anywhere, but a) GMs are human (for now) and b) there is a social contract at the table that inherently limits the available options.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Reynard, post: 9555065, member: 467"] Again, I think that the definition of "player agency" can be distilled to "meaningful choice" and those meaningful choices exist on every level of play -- from the round by round tactical choices of combat, to the broad strokes Session 0 decisions of the campaign setup. As it relates to Quantum ogres: player agency is preserved as long as meaningful choices are presented. those meaningful choices aren't limited to "whether to go left or right to avoid or encounter the ogres." It doesn't necessarily remove player agency for the ogre encounter to be predetermined as long as the play of that encounter involves meaningful choices (sneak around, bribe it with something to eat, kill it, whatever). Of course in a perfect world the players could choose to do anything and go anywhere, but a) GMs are human (for now) and b) there is a social contract at the table that inherently limits the available options. [/QUOTE]

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