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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mamba" data-source="post: 9087818" data-attributes="member: 7034611">I don't see it, so let's try this again <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />1) If your character in game finds a lamp with a genie in it, the genie offers him three wishes, no questions asked, no conditions. Your char says 'well, in that case, my first wish is unlimited wishes', the genie looks surprised and says 'I did not consider this, but I gave you my word, so unlimited wishes it is'. You now have used 6 wishes so are certain it works, and anything you wished for did happen. Does having the genie increase or decrease your agency?2) Is there a difference for your agency between the genie being called 'Abarax, the Magnificent' or 'Joe, the DM' ?The only difference I see is how you initiate something coming true. In the first case you let your genie know in game, in the second you say 'I perform this silly little dance that has no reason to work, but somehow always does, I must really have stumbled onto something here, to …’ and the DM in both cases says 'you succeed'.If anything was reduced / taken away in the 2nd case it is your ‘ability’ to fail against your will (in the first case you can simply not talk to the genie), but to me that is no reduction in agency</blockquote>