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For the players maybe. But, for the DM? Seriously?

That's the thing. There is no difference. The "random encounter roll" is not connected to anything other than, as you say, having this...

I don't know if my take is actually logical or even accepted interpretation. But it's satisfactory to me because it is an...

And there we have it perfectly laid out. The encounter is rolled FIRST. THEN the scene is created to make the encounter flow in the...

Right, so to kind of give some historical perspective: you can look at the evolution of RPG design and practice as a process of both...

GMs having a mental model they develop and evaluate is only more like our moment-to-moment existence as long as we are dealing with...

What the fudge does this even mean? IN THE FICTION there either is or is not a cook in the kitchen. The GM says "there is a cook in the...

No one disagrees with this, as best I'm reading the conversation. The cook is in the kitchen because of <insert in-fiction causal...

@AbdulAlhazred made this point some way upthread: To me, it seems that the real issue is this: @AlViking and @Maxperson are affirming...

Well, I recall earlier in the thread where I described sandbox play as being GM focused. And that opinion was met with resistance. Not...

Adding a cook to a kitchen seems similar to you as adding a dragon or Luke Skywalker? Okay, I guess. I'm trying to look at it not in...

It's not just granularity. I mean, that could factor in, but what seems more important to me is the focus on what the character is...

I think this will depend on what the game is. But the PbtA games I'm familiar with - mostly AW and DW - say when a player-side move is...

I think @hawkeyefan's point is simpler than you are making it out to be. It is not a point about game play; it is a simple point about...

I've been lurking around this thread for a while, but this discussion has been very eye-opening, and it's really helping me understand...