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First off, thank you for taking the time to write such a comprehensive and thoughtful reply to my posts. I want to be upfront that I’ll...

The amount of detail I prep for a combat depends on the goals of that combat.

Because of the nature of how D&D works, especially combat, I will typically have ideas for the path I expect the players to take and...

@EzekielRaiden a little upthread I posted a situation which saw the PCs sequestered for several fictional hours (not exactly like your...

I think that's probably the more likely cause, but you could also see how this could very plausibly flow from principles based on the...

History time! This was atempted more than 100 years ago. The concept of kriegspeil as a professional military tool was quite the rage...

I think, when talking about bypassed encounters, we're more meaning situations in which a conscious choice was made to take steps in...

Encounters missed/avoided were either planned via map-key, alluded to (as per my example upthread), or avoided by tactic, missed via...

Of all the ways a tabletop RPG campaign can be managed, why did you choose the following approach for running Arthurian adventures in...

Mine was also high school theatre and a bit of out-of-school stuff; and unlike your groups ours tended to collaborate in silos - the...

There were plenty of encounters in D&D 4e. Heck, there was a whole 4e series called Encounters.

I'm afraid my sleep meds are kicking in (it is extremely late but I need to sleep), so I cannot respond to this post right now. I just...

This is well-thought-out post. However, it is not a fair evaluation, and because of both its complexity and the nature of this thread, I...

Because the bulk of it simply seemed to be in agreement with what I'd said all along: you do what you do because you feel like doing it...

The issue is that you don't consider any of those things to meet your criteria of a limitation. We do.