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This community really complains loudly about standard corporate scandals.

When we see an RPG rulebook that quotes verbatim the entirety of Robert's Rules of Order we'll know the end is nigh.

I do think those are certainly part of typical rpg campaigns. But I also think the term clearly applies to just random encounters (which...

In Dresden Files, if you cannot absorb Stress from a Social source, you are Taken Out, just like any other stress. And, whoever took...

They throw you out of the pub on your ear.

The sense I get is that some other games might call them "scenes" instead of encounters. Same thing, though, in the end.

How is there a conflict between need for prep and player agency? They seem largely unrelated to me.

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

D&D 5e isn’t declining, and everyone who picks up DH because of CR is already familiar with D&D 5e, so…no. And frankly, I doubt very...

I'm not sure I buy that a multidimensional approach is easier for the GM to mentally judge in play, but I haven't run it yet so I don't...

The encounter discussion evolved from not understanding how players can bypass encounters; to encounters should be called potential...

I've tried to avoid it, but I'll cop to having been guilty to at least some of that. I want nothing to do with the ongoing "encounter"...

You don't understand how stealth, bribery, invisibility, teleport, pass without trace and a myriad other skills, abilities and spells...

Yes. But everyone here has played D&D we are not speaking Latin when we talk about bypassing an encounter.

It does seem to be a bit of a conflict! I doubt we’ll encounter a satisfying answer!