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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...

I will link the thread to Jeremy so he can weigh in more if he has time. I suspect it is both based on what he said (especially if the...

When I tried looking up what "Xuan Piu" could be, the translation of "mysterious woman" was basically all I could find, which seemed...

Consider a locked door. The PCs want something in the room on the other side of the door. The PCs use Stone Shape to make a hole in the...

Sure. What I meant was that it was intended to drain resources. Whether it actually does comes down to the players. If they're savvy...

I'll admit, I'm not a fan of what the hypothetic GM did in this example, but by itself, it's not indicative of anything, which is why...

Not quite. An encounter is also a thing that will occur unless steps are taken to prevent it from occurring. I see you coming toward...

I'd define it as a foreseeable or foreseen encounter that was intentionally avoided by the PCs. That takes the planning piece out of it...