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To elaborate a bit on this: I don't know exactly how Spire works, but from your posting about it I get the sense that it's structure of...

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

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...

I've never heard anyone describe missing a party as a missed encounter. Because they're not encounters - when you miss a party, you...

For my part, I know what an encounter is in a D&D-esque game. In my 4e D&D game, for instance, there were plenty of encounters. But I...

Again, I think this makes sense for a certain approach to play. When I ran Mothership, this may have applied to some extent. There would...

Hmm, well given the same conditions as @pemerton gave, I'd stop the game and have a chat and clarify why they didn't want to go into the...

You’ve mistaken me for @pemerton . I’m simply offering a slightly different take to perhaps bridge the gap. I don’t think “encounters”...

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...

The fiction might be why we play the game. I can imagine other reasons, too: fun, expressing system mastery, socialization, and so on...

How do you provide new material? you mean like you have another load of prep? edit: asking because in some games, if you don't have...

My main interest in these sorts of discussions is clearly setting out techniques. It's from others clearly setting out techniques that I...

What's left is hit-point based combat, which is pretty poor for anything "modern" or "gritty". Hit points are already a tenuous fit for...

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Because that's the point of the game. It's a game of Arthurian adventure. If you didn't want to do that sort of thing, you wouldn't...