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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8499325" data-attributes="member: 16814"><p>In 5e, the only agency the player has is in the realm of determining what a character thinks, feels, and tries to do. Your proposal would allow other players (primarily the GM) to abrogate this when they wanted to. To me, this is a loss of agency for the 5e player because they gain no benefit from this (gaining Inspiration is already baseline). So, it's a trade to offload character choice for no other increase in agency.</p><p></p><p>In games that feature this kind of thing, agency is usually strongly compensated by having the game be about what the players choose for it to be about. This isn't present at all in 5e. But this, I mean of course the GM could choose to use their authority to do so, but there's no constraint on the GM to do so. This wraps back into just being at the GM's whim. You could have a strong social contract that could constrain this, but that's outside of the game and you can do whatever you want here anyway regardless of the game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 8499325, member: 16814"] In 5e, the only agency the player has is in the realm of determining what a character thinks, feels, and tries to do. Your proposal would allow other players (primarily the GM) to abrogate this when they wanted to. To me, this is a loss of agency for the 5e player because they gain no benefit from this (gaining Inspiration is already baseline). So, it's a trade to offload character choice for no other increase in agency. In games that feature this kind of thing, agency is usually strongly compensated by having the game be about what the players choose for it to be about. This isn't present at all in 5e. But this, I mean of course the GM could choose to use their authority to do so, but there's no constraint on the GM to do so. This wraps back into just being at the GM's whim. You could have a strong social contract that could constrain this, but that's outside of the game and you can do whatever you want here anyway regardless of the game. [/QUOTE]
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