Episode 27: The Invisible Rules of Roleplaying

[Randalf the Gray]

A GM-less game played from a prewritten module using oracles to address unknown variables, as many solo games are played, would provide no power to define the world itself.

I’m not sure this is true. In play with oracles, the questions that you ask, how you ask them, and the ones you choose not to ask, all define the world.

To drive the point further, these questions or lack thereof could all be provided by the module.

If, at the end of this long chain of effects dictated by the structure of the game, the only resultant "power to define" is the semi-conscious process of closure, it feels like that is the true root of the "power to define" itself, with different levels of "depth" to that power potentially being allocated among both the player-participants and the game itself.