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They can be and are. In my game there is no retrofitting of the terrain to fit in an encounter.

How suddenly did it become long grass?

Right. But that does mean I agree it is a mistake to describe the issue as just ‘quantum’. I think ‘quantum’ is mostly a misguided...

You clearly don't understand it if you are still calling it DM driven/centered. Player driven with the DM reacting to the players...

No. I don't. You can't make me use someone else's methods. I'm not sure why you are even trying. I don't retroactively create valleys...

I should also clarify (in addition to the fact that I don't really use random encounters) that I was thinking specifically of how an...

That's because you aren't thinking it through. Whether or not someone is in a room has zero to do with competence of a lock picker...

I don't know, but I do know that he played a very different game than the 1e rulebooks lay out. It's certainly possible, though.

I think the new series work much better when the connection to the old characters is "I trained with them" or "I'm related to them" or...

I think doing so is impossible, unless they also step back to 90s TV production. The reason DS9 is so good is that we get to know the...

Bring in Tybee Diskin as Major Kira's daughter. There's a remarkable resemblance :)

For him. You can't apply that to any of the rest of us who haven't said we do it like that. I don't.

The random encounter roll is absolutely connected to the game world. The encounter tables are by terrain type, the terrain being the...

It is, but folks like to call it goal and approach. Gotta have terms for everything you know. At least they aren't calling it GAP and...

Here I thought that was just telling me what they were doing.