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So his inability is that he doesn’t recognize that different people are, in fact, different people who may phrase things differently...

Yes, same thing in Monster of the Week, which I run, and in other PbtA games I’ve read and played. “Future Badness.” And if the players...

Yes, thank you, possibilities. Exactly what I’ve been talking about. But that’s not even the point, because the point is the players...

That’s not what @pemerton has been saying to me. He has very clearly expressed an inability to understand not engaging in an encounter—a...

I’m that paragraph, I’m not even talking about encounters. I’m talking about thinking about what the things I say mean. If I’m...

So why is this such a sticking point for you? What is it about this concept that is just too difficult for you to understand? Prepped...

Further to the notion of showing the players my notes, I just remembered one fairly recent example where I not only showed them the...

The players create their characters, and (if things are going well) they tend to do rather a lot.

You can’t think to ask “is such-and-such here?” Extrapolate from the available data! Make stuff up and see what sticks!

When you contort yourself that much to try and make it OK to work with Nazis, that should be your clue that you shouldn't be working...

An encounter may be prepped, it may not be. Some encounters are ad-hoc, others are things I've listed as things that would be logically...

Wrong. I set up an encounter. The players may or may not choose to engage. I can make assumptions based on my past experiences with...

I have repeatedly said that it doesn’t have to.

Because you didn’t discuss those events, there were no encounters to be bypassed. Tell me: do you really think we don’t know that these...

How about the GM’s imagination? They’re allowed to use that when improvising and not relying on prep, right?