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See I think you’ve been confused in how you’ve approached this topic. You said before you were just using the word per its natural...

You said that, if the players choose to have their PCs ignore or not follow the tracks, there is an encounter that they have bypassed...

That is exactly right.

The picture I have, following these posts, is that those bypassed encounters were ones that you had prepped, and were ready to "spring"...

"Bypass" used to mean did something other than fight seems to me idiosyncratic but clear enough once the idiosyncrasy is explained...

Clearly for Daggerheart, you are. See: OP title ;). Regardless, a Player Best Practices with short punchy descriptions of how to play...

Honestly, it has been unclear. I think what often happens in these discussions is people fail to make the distinction between what is...

In casual talk, with my table, bypassing refers to combat or dangerous exploration encounters (you could throw traps in here) while...

Ah yeah, that's a great point there. I've definitely had some moments where play felt like it was lagging out, and I realized I needed...

Right, I've played in a lot of extensive settings previously. I've run APs that have moment by moment play mapped out, I've played in...

I can't speak for what Strandberg does, and I guess it depends how you define "low vs high stakes." When my players want to explore...

I've never shied away that the setting is the GMPC. I'm the one who selected which APs/modules as well as homebrew content exists. The...

Some people are using "bypass an encounter" to mean "resolving an encounter other than by way of combat". Others are not: they are using...

There are posters who are insisting that it is not game jargon, but rather just a naturalistic way of speaking about the events in the...

To me, this seems a description of GM-centred play.