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To give a simple example of the potential conflict between prep and agency I'd like to offer an encounter from a recent 5e game. The...

I find it interesting that D&D 2024, Daggerheart , and some of the other Heartbreakers that have come out/are in beta advocate more...

Yes, you want to prep a lot. but they are components, not fleshed out scenes or events. You make people. You make places. You make...

So what? There are also games that don’t use the word. And clearly there are many ways of using it. So maybe… just maybe… some people...

Sure, I can see that to some extent. Though in a way the goal of the sandbox that you’ve been describing seems more about crafting as...

Well, I was told that Encounter was not jargon and that therefore there should be no confusion as to how it’s being used. And I’ve also...

Pretty sure yours goes to 11, Max!

Yes, that is my point… that it may be a problem. I never said it had to be a problem for you or any given person.

No those are the cutely-named moves that D&D uses!

I know the hints are not the encounter. So… what is the encounter? To me, there doesn’t seem to actually BE any encounter. I never...

This is what I have described upthread as the players making low-stakes action declarations in order to prompt the GM to provide them...

For what it's worth (not much, perhaps), I have random encounter tables with "tracks" entries, which is a standard process under the...

How did we go from “5e is the dominant force in the market currently so we should assume their definitions” to “well but actually we...

It does? If you walk into a huge, ancient red dragon's den, and get into a knock-down, drag-out physical fight, and lose, you die. If...

You really “cannot fathom” why anyone would want to skip past the more boring aspects of play? All these discussions we’ve been...