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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prabe" data-source="post: 8013367" data-attributes="member: 7016699">[USER=16586]@Campbell[/USER] Agency over your character is intrinsically good--it is, at least in more-traditional TRPGs like D&D, what the players can control directly, the only (or at least primary) way they have to shape the fiction. Player agency over the fiction is not exactly the same thing, at least not how I see it.Speaking primarily about D&D--specifically 5E--because, as I've said before, it's the game at the top of my head at the moment (I know other games operate differently; neither rebuts the other): The players have agency over their characters, and thereby over the fiction. The players' agency over the characters is approximately absolute--barring magical effects like charm spells or draconic presence, the players get to decide what the characters do; their agency over the fiction is limited to what the characters can accomplish.Looking at that second paragraph, I don't know that it's a hill I'd die on, but I think it's not too bad for something I'm pulling out of my head. Call it a draft, I guess.I guess, looking at that, I maybe understand why I was so underwhelmed by the flashback mechanic in BitD. (To be clear, I wanted pretty badly to like BitD, and I bounced off it pretty hard.)I am not as much of a purist about players suggesting things as it might seem from the above. In the example [USER=6993955]@Fenris-77[/USER] posted about the balcony across the alley, I'd probably run it about the same way he would. I might think about where the PC is (which might determine whether there's even an alley in the first place) but if it's reasonable and there's no in-fiction reason to say no, I'd probably say yes. While I find that being the sole (ish) author of the broader world makes it easier for me to keep that world coherent (for my tastes), I see the value of player input, at least on the scene level.</blockquote>

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