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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9125675" data-attributes="member: 42582">I've often posted, over many years, that of the whist family of games I prefer five hundred to bridge, and of the classic board games I prefer backgammon to chess, because both my preferred games involve more luck and also demand less of the player (in terms of cognition and play skill) to do well.To put it simply, they are more light-hearted.This doesn't mean that they are high agency, however, either in general or relative to some contextual pemertonian matrix of agency. I play them because they're fun and relaxing, not because they allow me to exercise my agency is a game player. My interest in exercising agency as a card or board game play is actually quite finite. My preferred venue for high agency game playing is RPGing.</blockquote>