Episode 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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