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Well, if you’re playing classic XP for treasure, and following the distribution guidelines for placing treasure in the dungeons or...

I think perhaps his questions stem from his inability to reconcile certain ideas from some posters rather than him being unable to...

5e absolutely ties advancement to encounters (primarily combat) unless you move to milestone leveling. Milestone leveling is GM fiat...

I really appreciate that Daggerheart has been up front with its expectations here as well. It’s designed to be a heroic fantasy game...

That is the intended mentality for the playstyles Apocalypse World and Burning Wheel were designed to support. To stay present, focus on...

If I had to hazard a guess. I would say he is asking because it’s hard to reconcile the ideas of encounters and how they relate to prep...

I don’t think of anything I do right now as encounters, because the games I’m running don’t either. At most, I’m framing a scene that...

This captures most eloquently why I choose to play roleplaying games. I want this stuff.

For me, the answer was really nicely put by Eero Tuovinen: I find that the riddle of roleplaying is answered thusly: it is more fun to...

Well, some posters are telling me that their sandboxing does not centre the GM. But now I am being told that players are bypassing...

So in this usage, an encounter is a particular sort of component of a GM's prep? It is something that the GM "creates" when they...

Perhaps you can't? I mean, maybe much of my life is miserable, oppressed, low in agency, etc. There are people in the world who suffer...

I do agree that rules will not resolve social issues and that a functional set of creative relationships should basically be assumed...

It's not about legislating good behavior. It's about establishing shared creative goals (that we all agree to take on). This is no...

So, I think I see part of the issue: The players don't know what they don't know. There is typically some minimum of information a...