Ep.4: Player Agency

In episode 4, Jamie and Scott have a lot to say about agency at the table. Who controls what? Who drives the story? Who narrates die outcomes? Traditionally the GM handles a lot of this but we challenge groups to explore situations where you can hand over a lot of that responsibility. And we discuss over a dozen games that change how we think about agency.

Topics:

1:00 Seriousness

3:35 Ginni Di - https://youtu.be/DXUnEk4cuYI?si=M_5Dr4dv_b_E-1vH

4:50 Monte Cook - https://www.montecookgames.com

10:35 Characterization Agency

13:30 Combat

16:24 Losing control of PC

19:00 Blades in the Dark

22:30 metagame

23:40 Invisible Sun

28:00 "Action" Agency

35:00 Torchbearer

37:00 die rolling

42:30 Apocalypse World

44:35 Cypher System

45:35 Plot Agency

52:10 Proactive Roleplaying

How To Be a Great GM - https://youtube.com/@howtobeagreatgm?si=Fze0DEXg5gbr456E

54:20 Novel characterization

63:43 John Harper

65:15 Setting canon

66:18 Shock

70:00 Hero Wars & RuneQuest

75:40 Burning Wheel

79:35 "Push-Pull" Agency

90:00 Community & IT Crowd

92:29 Dice adjudicating conversations

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