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Great! Because "prep and player agency is in conflict" reads to many that highly value player agency as "ALL PREP IS BAD". And I think...

Sure, sure! Bardic Inspiration, Rage, Reckless Attack, Channel Divinity, Wild Shape, Second Wind, Action Surge, Martial Arts, Deflect...

I'm not saying either of those things. Just read the bits in italics and you have all the info you need. There's no trick here.

I was explaining that I am not insisting that prep always takes away agency. Just that there's a conflict there. I'm not saying that...

Well, what if you needed far more specific maps? What if you or your players were not satisfied seeing the same maps again and again...

Well yes... I have a hard time believing that living on any other planet would be better than Earth. They might. Which I would think...

What?

It's not irrelevant to me, though. That there are things out in the world, hinted at in some way, does not turn those things into an...

I'm not saying that the conflict cannot be addressed in some way. There are several ways it can be done, and it very much depends on...

You are in a dessert. There are nothing but sand in all directions. What do you do? This is an allorgy for a fully unprepared...

I normally punch out when people start quoting the dictionary. But in this case, I'd instead like to quote the 2014 DMG. Page 75...

I didn't say an encounter had to include a threat. I said the example you provided... tracks of a potentially hostile group... consisted...

I mean that D&D (the 5e texts) does not contemplate non-exploratory play or play that is not structured around discrete adventures. This...

Nope, encounter is what I meant! It has a pretty specific use when it comes to RPGs. Certainly no more or less confusing than “moves”...

Would it make more sense to you if we took away the threat? During my RPG upbringing, an encounter was anytime the PCs interacted with...