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I am speaking to exploration as an activity of play here (akin to the exploration pillar and the described 5e play loop). Exploring your...

I think Narrativist game assumes Narrativist play is not any more One True Way than the described D&D play loop and description of the...

If you don’t understand that there’s a conflict between the need for prep and player agency, I’m not going to try and convince you. The...

Well as I said, for many games, I wouldn’t ever think of those as encounters. It’s not defined in any way other than as a signaled...

Note that I said satisfying! Sounds like the response of someone reading to understand for sure!

Personally, I've never considered there to be one. As far as D&D is concerned, I've always viewed it as any situation that was designed...

It does seem to be a bit of a conflict! I doubt we’ll encounter a satisfying answer!

Yes, I’ve already said that I have considered encounters in some of the games I run. But not all. The ones where I do tend to be D&D or...

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...

Games like Monsterhearts, Sorcerer, Burning Wheel, et al are not adventure games in the same way that D&D is an adventure game though...

A significant audience for Apocalypse World, when it was written, were fans of Vincent Baker's earlier RPGs. The best-known of those was...

As I said, I accept that you look at it that way. All I asked was the common courtesy to return the favor and respect that I view it...

I 1000% agree with this!

In Apocalypse World, ":if you do it, you do it" means that if a player has their PC do <this specified sort of thing> in the fiction...

Yeah, I just went with something where there were obvious hints of there being more to the person. So no difference between a social...