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<blockquote data-quote="Ilbranteloth" data-source="post: 7408618" data-attributes="member: 6778044">I’d say there’s a meaningful difference between agency (control) of your character and agency (control) of results. Both provide input into the fiction or narrative, but in a different way. The force placed against the players/characters is essentially the same when the GM arbitrarily decides results in the moment, or ahead of time. Neither affects your control of the character’s actions, and as long as the GM is assessing the appropriateness and validity as the result is introduced into play I’d say there isn’t really a qualitative difference either.To me its not so much a question of when something was authored, but more a question of the GM playing their part in good faith and contributing meaningfully to the narrative. I can certainly agree that with preauthored material there’s a possibility that the GM may not follow that standard, but then again the can generate a self serving agenda on the fly too.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ilbranteloth, post: 7408618, member: 6778044"] I’d say there’s a meaningful difference between agency (control) of your character and agency (control) of results. Both provide input into the fiction or narrative, but in a different way. The force placed against the players/characters is essentially the same when the GM arbitrarily decides results in the moment, or ahead of time. Neither affects your control of the character’s actions, and as long as the GM is assessing the appropriateness and validity as the result is introduced into play I’d say there isn’t really a qualitative difference either. To me its not so much a question of when something was authored, but more a question of the GM playing their part in good faith and contributing meaningfully to the narrative. I can certainly agree that with preauthored material there’s a possibility that the GM may not follow that standard, but then again the can generate a self serving agenda on the fly too. [/QUOTE]

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