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That’s not what @pemerton has been saying to me. He has very clearly expressed an inability to understand not engaging in an encounter—a...

In short, I do not agree with the vision you laid out. It doesn’t reflect how I view this hobby, or why I value it. I disagree with many...

I think this “trilemma” presumes the GM’s role is a mechanical; input-output, like a flawed algorithm that needs debugging. But in...

This is a bit of a rehash of a line of discussion that has already happened, so this feels like a bit of a misrepresentation. From what...

I've always found I'm able to improvise far more readily when I've done some form of prep as a scaffolding, even if none of it got...

Lots of making prep seem bad around here, and I think that is a bit odd. Something to note when we are discussing the use of prep. A...

Ouch, not sand - sand cake of course! How did I miss that word?

I once got invited to a game by a friend I met playing Magic the Gathering. Don’t remember the system, but it’s not really relevant...

What, like a giant apple pie? Maybe a swimming pool full of ice cream? ...Oh.

No. As I’ve said multiple times, it’s possible, even easy to have completely improvised encounters and to bypass them.

Literally the entire definition in the dictionary is the same as the typical RPG usages. In many RPGs, “move” means movement, as in “my...

There is no inherent conflict there. A "need" for prep is simply a matter of a GM's skill and comfortability with improvising. The...

Yeah, the only one really is spell slots for enchantment spells or buffs like guidance and enhance ability. Vampire allows for social...

Unfortunately, some games—like D&D—don’t have social-specific resources to be drained, which undoubtedly leads people into thinking that...

Sounds like you agree with me. Definitely sounds like you agree with me. You might be an outlier, because from what I've witnessed...