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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Campbell" data-source="post: 7075388" data-attributes="member: 16586">Because I am nothing if not adamant I am going to take this post as an oppurtunity to say that I do not want players driving the game. Ideally, the game does hard work of the driving. In my preferred forms of gameplay players strictly advocate for their characters and do not try to seize control of anything. This is why I do not enjoy Fate. Fate is a game that is tuned to distribute control over narrative outcomes using an economy that is not overly concerned about the fiction, only our influence upon it. Compels are pretty much systemized bits of control over "the story". We do things like plan arcs for our characters, rather than let things flow naturally from the fiction. This sort of detached approach to character and the fiction makes it almost impossible for me to enjoy play in the moment. We are playing for the fiction - not in it. I do not like it when GMs do this. I also do not like it when players do this in roughly the same measure.I mean I totally get the distinction you are trying to make it here. I just would not make that exact same distinction. I am not really sure if this is a meaningful difference of opinion between us or more a matter of framing. I think even when intent is a thing in play we should be careful to focus on character intent over player intent if that makes any sense.</blockquote>