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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7340403" data-attributes="member: 42582">I've been more focused on trying to accurately describe what is going on, rather than analyse what people get from it - which can be rather subjective.That's not controversial. Players can also be authors and audience.But if the GM is narrating pre-authored material to the players, and is using that material to adjudicate action declaration, what acting/agency are the players providing? They may be determining the sequence in which the pre-authored material is revealed by the GM (qv The Alexandrian's "node-based design"), or whether or not it is revealed at all. They establish characterisation for their PCs. What else?Right. And how is it possibly pejorative to describe this as "the GM reading the players his/her notes"? That's exactly what the story/entertainment consists in!</blockquote>