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I really appreciate that Daggerheart has been up front with its expectations here as well. It’s designed to be a heroic fantasy game...

No, I think you miss the basic point: Properly priming the players, so that they have enough information, but not too much, and retain...

I still find this idea of "encountering" such a strange way of conceiving things. If you are sneaking past something, surely you have...

But what you get XP for is the treasure you gain. There is no additional XP for the mere fact of tricking or outwitting.

Well, some posters are telling me that their sandboxing does not centre the GM. But now I am being told that players are bypassing...

Well, of course, the other part of it is that you deny that other approaches to RPGing give the player more agency than you approach...

Because it is a concrete example of a specific concern I personally would have in this context, which came from a real person. It can't...

I never said anything about flattening--nor about perfect equality either. Folks in this thread are pretty happy to accuse others of...

Certainly! I have very little (perhaps even negative) interest in play which does not contain collaboration. I've just been told enough...

....hence why I said, in the bit you cut out... If you're going to quote me in order to skewer me on not being subjective enough, it...

So, I think I see part of the issue: The players don't know what they don't know. There is typically some minimum of information a...

Do you realize that you just continued the stonewalling with a non-answer? "It looks like this style as a problem, and nobody will tell...

I'm not pemerton. But to me, that isn't bypassing the encounter. It is interacting with the encounter--just not in the brute-force...

Well, as I noted, for a world where social positioning and politics matter, this IS a simulation of that.

I thought the consequence of running out of hit points was supposed to be enormous - eg PC death.