I've been thinking about this a bit. I think that a better answer is that certain elements of the will of the people are in fact locally legible. You can observe people overtly creating WTF characters. If you are close to them you can observe them covertly, fearfully creating WTF characters in the shadows, or wishing that they could do so without onus but holding back. You can observe them being judged for these choices, or not being judged for these choices, by the marketplace of local ideas.
There are of course subjective elements to that last assessment. Still, practically speaking, either the result of public awareness of WTF character creation is inhibitory feedback that reduces their WTF character creation propensities relative to a loosely measurable baseline or positive feedback that increases it.
Scientific, empirical measurement of the will of the people in a given community regarding this matter would require extensive and mostly unjustifiable labor (although of course similar principles apply and in most cases labor is functionally its own justification) but a loose approximation is pretty easily obtained.
Basically, my assertion is that you can turn to the rules of a roleplaying game and wiggle them a bit to see whether a macabre undead word puppet assembled by the designer at a particular historical moment considers a certain action legitimate, and this has critical value, but ultimately it is through parasitizing on human action or, minimally, human consciousness, that a roleplaying game manifests into reality and becomes the system whose purpose is what it does. In this fashion the will of the people is distinct from a text, which is functionally identical to its Godel number in exactly the same way that extant entities potentially aren't.
yousharknotpass
gummygunk
2087
kaledo-art
blakekathryn
annaxmalina
