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To give a simple example of the potential conflict between prep and agency I'd like to offer an encounter from a recent 5e game. The...

Pretty sure yours goes to 11, Max!

I know the hints are not the encounter. So… what is the encounter? To me, there doesn’t seem to actually BE any encounter. I never...

You really “cannot fathom” why anyone would want to skip past the more boring aspects of play? All these discussions we’ve been...

How did we go from “5e is the dominant force in the market currently so we should assume their definitions” to “well but actually we...

I normally punch out when people start quoting the dictionary. But in this case, I'd instead like to quote the 2014 DMG. Page 75...

I mean that D&D (the 5e texts) does not contemplate non-exploratory play or play that is not structured around discrete adventures. This...

I know I'm a bit late to the party on this one, but there's a point I'd really like to see clarified. In the discussion about "bypassed...

I don't think the concepts are the same at all. The concepts used to understand how scenes/situations are presented to players in...

Well, yes, obviously. The problem is the natural usage of the word encounter means to actually, ya know, interact with something...

No apology needed! I only pointed it out so any continued back and forth would make sense. I think it’s more about the “bypassed...

Because an encounter is a thing that occurs. If no encounter occurs, then what is it that was bypassed? The answer seems to be - the...

OK? Then why do you keep posting replies to my comments (and threads that I've started over the years) about the analysis of game play...

I think this creates real problems in the hobby and it accounts for why we see seemingly erroneous understandings of certain games...

Is it? Do you think this situation was written down ahead of time? With boxed text and a statblock? Or do some games work differently...