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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sepulchrave II" data-source="post: 9253513" data-attributes="member: 4303">I guess this gets to the crux of it for me, as I'm not so confident that such a divide - between the table/genre and the fiction/gameworld - can be so starkly asserted. Maybe I view it as more of a lens with a variable focus, with increasing tightness and specificty, with the proviso that everyone will bring their own ideas about a given genre with them: In the Arthurian example (a good one, as it is such an expansive genre), different people might bring quite different expectations.It seems that there will always be some measure of conflict - or at least tension - between genre fidelity (desirable) and player autonomy/agency (also desirable); the question then becomes how best to resolve that tension. Allowing the fiction to unfold without any prior constraints is a solution which seems a riskier proposition in terms of maintaining genre fidelity; a referee imposing limits sacrifices player autonomy in order to ensure (his or her vision of) genre fidelity.</blockquote>