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Incentives are subjective. If you enter into a game with the notion that the only incentive is individual power achievement, then yeah...

I think the distinction between calling ruins an encounter and calling a town an encounter is relevant.

It does suggest a possibly entertaining campaign where the PCs get vast XP for all the dangerous places they don’t go… …and the light...

I think that is both RAW and RAI. By RAW, nothing stops a character from taking a feat that grants a benefit they already have. And by...

I think the wording is clear. “Your Charisma score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20.” Nothing about it says you can’t take the feat...

Fair point - agreed.

....that isn't breaking or even bending the rules. That's requesting a review of the rules, on the grounds that the rules are...

You will probably not be surprised to hear that I don't have a particularly high view of "GM as continuous amateur game (re-)designer"...

Well, the text does not support that reading in my view, for two reasons: It refers to XP for treasure and for killing and capturing...

Among those in this thread who are arguing that "bypass an encounter" has a clear meaning, there seems to be a significant difference of...

But doesn't the level system work against you here? You can have all the locations and whatnot that you want, but, there are practical...

[…] Definitely, @EzekielRaiden ‘s approach to motivating the characters both seems a lot more interesting and engaging, and more likely...

You have, many many times over, told me that they will--not that they might, but they will--bend the rules into pretzels, even break...

But it doesn’t. The definition from the 5e DMG is different from the dictionary definition. There can be non-combat encounters in a...

I normally try not to assign motives to others… but when it’s done to me, I’ll do it right back. In this case, I should have also...