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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8444384" data-attributes="member: 42582">I don't think you (the poster Thomas Shey) necessarily intended what I've taken away from your post, but I'm going to post my take-away because it speaks to a more general issue.I find that there is a very strong tendency to equate player authority over the shared fiction with meta-currency, shared narration, etc. But to me, those are rather boutique forms of player authority, and do not play a big role in most of my RPGing.To me, the typical distribution of roles in a RPG means that the bulk of what players do is declare actions for their PC, either expressly - I do such-and-such - or implicitly - What can we see? or What's in the chest? which bring with them implicit declarations like We look around? or I look in the chest. And it is by way of the resolution of these declared actions that players exert authority over the shared fiction.We can see this in [USER=6785785]@hawkeyefan[/USER]'s Folk Hero example: that doesn't play out as a meta-stipulation I decree that there are common folk willing to give me shelter. It plays out as an action declaration: I approach these common folk and ask them to shelter me and my friends. The background ability says (or seems to say) that in such circumstances, the action declaration will typically succeed.That's why, in these sorts of discussions, approaches to framing and to resolution are fundamental. I think it' self-evident why resolution is fundamental; and framing is also fundamental because it plays such a big role in establishing the fictional context for declarations and resolutions of PC actions.</blockquote>

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