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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6246597" data-attributes="member: 42582">Huh? Are you talking about character or player? Whether or not the character is fated is a question about the content of the fiction. Whether or not the player is fated is a question of metaphysics.When people talk about playe agency they are sidestepping the metaphysical question (as do most everyday discussions of human action). And they are expressing no view on the ingame fiction question (eg a player could exercise his/her agency to play a fated PC).The second of these two passages shows that the first is an oversimplifcation. RPGing is not on a &quot;spectrum&quot; between railroad and sandbox. For instance, there are approaches to RPGing in which the GM exercises principal control over scene-framing (which is different from a sandbox) but does not execise principal control over the thematic or even literal content of the fiction.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6246597, member: 42582"] Huh? Are you talking about character or player? Whether or not the character is fated is a question about the content of the fiction. Whether or not the player is fated is a question of metaphysics. When people talk about playe agency they are sidestepping the metaphysical question (as do most everyday discussions of human action). And they are expressing no view on the ingame fiction question (eg a player could exercise his/her agency to play a fated PC). The second of these two passages shows that the first is an oversimplifcation. RPGing is not on a "spectrum" between railroad and sandbox. For instance, there are approaches to RPGing in which the GM exercises principal control over scene-framing (which is different from a sandbox) but does not execise principal control over the thematic or even literal content of the fiction. [/QUOTE]

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