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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 9219288" data-attributes="member: 71699">This description makes me think of another connotation of "negotiate" which is when we "negotiate a rocky cliff face" or "negotiate an obstacle course". Nothing on the cliff face is open to my agreement or disagreement: the ancient granite is as it is. What I can control are my own actions, solely. Similarly, in RPG we negotiate the rules and one another's acts. (In this sense we can negotiate the rules themselves, and we can use the rules to negotiate one another's acts.)I suppose a problem with applying negotiation with that sense in mind, is the semantic loading. The word could still be meant or interpreted to always include contingent agreement? I don't deeply object to the word - I get why some folk like it - yet it just doesn't quite capture what is going on for me, as perhaps I've shed more light on above.</blockquote>