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The thing you quoted said nothing about your views. It said that the game under discussion--D&D--is not a very good simulationist game...

Totally unrelated to anything but it reminds me of a bad joke A horse walks into a bar and orders a drink. The bartender recognizes...

I imagine that this is far, far more likely. Portraying the Chinese as aggressively fielding warships is not going to fly, like, at...

I really think Japan in this movie is actually supposed to be China but they changed that because they didn’t want to offend the Chinese...

But, you do. This is exactly the same process that you use. You choose to have an event occur (or rather the dice choose for you) and...

I don't know if my take is actually logical or even accepted interpretation. But it's satisfactory to me because it is an...

Heh, I drafted and deleted some version of this comment over-and-over because I couldn't get the wording quite right. But that is the...

And there we have it perfectly laid out. The encounter is rolled FIRST. THEN the scene is created to make the encounter flow in the...

For the players maybe. But, for the DM? Seriously?

So the wandering monster roll determines the PCs’ location not the monsters? That seems weird. I would think if the roll indicates a...

That's the thing. There is no difference. The "random encounter roll" is not connected to anything other than, as you say, having this...

This could easily be true. The PC's spot the ambush because the grass wasn't long enough. They succeed on their perception check, so...

No. It absolutely does suddenly change height. You describe it as some grass over there and nothing else. That means that the players...

Oh, come on. The ONLY reason the grass suddenly becomes long is because of the ambush, not the other way around. The DM wouldn't have...

And, thus we keep up the pretense. Ask yourself this. Why did that group of monsters just happen to meet the party at that point in...