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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9665027" data-attributes="member: 42582">No one is &quot;reducing&quot; anything:And from <a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/articles/4/" target="_blank">here</a>: &quot;Stance is very labile during play, with people shifting among the stances frequently and even without deliberation or reflection.&quot;In terms of stance, what happened in my game is identical to what you describe here: the player declares an action (in actor stance, because the PC needs a cup and so looks around for on); and then that action declaration is resolved.In your description that I've just quoted, the action (&quot;I look around for a cup&quot;) is resolved by the GM deciding. In my example, it's resolved by rolling a Perception test. Neither of those is relevant to stance - stance is about the context/manner/upshot of a player's declared action, not how the declared action is resolved.In both your case and my case, if the upshot of the declared action is that a cup is narrated that was not previously an element of the shared fiction, then we have had a moment of director stance (because the action determines some aspect of the environment - here, a vessel - that is separate from the character's ability to influence events).The fact that in your example the cup would be there because the GM decides it is; and that in my example the vessel was there because the player succeeded on their roll; doesn't change anything about stance.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 9665027, member: 42582"] No one is "reducing" anything: And from [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/articles/4/]here[/url]: "Stance is very labile during play, with people shifting among the stances frequently and even without deliberation or reflection." In terms of stance, what happened in my game is identical to what you describe here: the player declares an action (in actor stance, because the PC needs a cup and so looks around for on); and then that action declaration is resolved. In your description that I've just quoted, the action ("I look around for a cup") is resolved by the GM deciding. In my example, it's resolved by rolling a Perception test. Neither of those is relevant to stance - stance is about [I]the context/manner/upshot of a player's declared action[/I], not how the declared action is resolved. In both your case and my case, if the upshot of the declared action is that a cup is narrated that was not previously an element of the shared fiction, then we have had a moment of director stance (because the action determines some aspect of the environment - here, a vessel - that is separate from the character's ability to influence events). The fact that in your example the cup would be there because the GM decides it is; and that in my example the vessel was there because the player succeeded on their roll; doesn't change anything about stance. [/QUOTE]

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