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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9114604" data-attributes="member: 23751">And I'm going to push back against that a bit. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Playing the DM doesn't care about improvisation, but rather it's about doing something the DM will like in order to gain success or a greater likelihood of success.  For example, the DM could have prepped a trap ahead of time(no improv) and if the player knows that the DM likes certain methods trap locating described by the players, a player using the method the DM likes in order to gain a greater chance of success is also playing the DM.Improvised situations or prepped situations can both result in playing the DM or not playing the DM, depending on what the player when he tries to resolve things.What I was talking about in response to [USER=42582]@pemerton[/USER] was in the context of agency vs. methodology, which don't touch on playing the DM.  Does the player have agency in the example Pemerton posted? Yes.  Does the player have agency with the method that [USER=6747251]@Micah Sweet[/USER] has been describing? Yes.  Does either one grant more agency than the other?  No.  The only effective difference is the timing of the authorship. Maybe the player in Pemerton's example was playing the DM and maybe not.  We have no way of knowing.  Same with the methods Micah has been describing.  I don't see where playing the DM matters.</blockquote>

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