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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6152170" data-attributes="member: 6696971">@<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?6703609-Mike-Eagling" target="_blank">Mike Eagling</a>Author stance is assumed when the person playing a character determines the character's decisions and  actions on a basis not solely borne of the character's priorities.  Generally, the actual player's priorities have primacy here and are independent of the  character's current, pre-established knowledge and perceptions.  You're most often establishing backstory for your character, leveraging it immediately and using it as a means to an end; that end may be "the rule of cool", "genre proliferation", or merely "flavor/color of mechanical resolution of a conflict".Director stance is assumed when the person playing a character determines aspects of the environment  relative to the character in some fashion which is entirely separately from the  character's knowledge or ability to influence events. Therefore, the  player has not only determined the character's actions, but also the context,  timing, and spatial circumstances of those actions, or even features of  the world separate from the characters.As @<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?42582-pemerton" target="_blank">pemerton</a> illuminates above, Director stance is pretty much a reframe of a situation or a challenge from adverse to benign.  Actor stance is typically narrative power enough to frame a situation with respect to genre conceits or how you would like it to come off but lacking in the absolute narrative authority of Director stance (as you're typically still subjected to fortune resolution) and lacking in the control of multiple vectors of the environment utterly external to your character.  Actor stance is basically just the narrative authority to say, "I'm Bob the Ranger (my character) and I'm Tracking the gnolls (interacting in the world in this way) and my Passive Perception is 25 (attending to the resolution of my task/action).  Do I find anything?"</blockquote>

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