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So when you said changing an encounter you meant changing a future encounter? The GM had planned a big battle, but you subverted it by...

A lot of "open world" play remains very GM-driven: it is the GM who decides the significant content of the presented scenes, and the...

Ah yes, I definitely consider myself a colleague and partner of someone when they decide the entire premise of what we do and have a...

D&D is a gritty survival of the smartest no molly-coddling world simulator physics engine that needs an auteur GM to curate everything...

The premise of the thread?

I mean, that's just bog-standard play to me. If you can't even flip a combat scenario to non-combat through use of the resolution...

That isn't 'changing an encounter'! That's responding to an encounter in an unexpected way.

Why aren't the crunchy games with new ideas being published then?

Agreed. One of the things I like about GMing Rolemaster (and doing the XP calculations afterwards) is seeing how the sausage is made...

As someone who occasionally likes rules heavy games (just not for ttrpg play), when I engage with them, it is because I want to do the...

Talk me through this please. You've been a player in a game run by someone else. The GM has described an encounter, a boss, an area, or...

It seems to me that we already had at least two decades of the hobby dominated by complex games, and in the D&D sphere this has never...

You're saying that you've changed encounters, bosses, areas, treasures as a player?

Note for note that same thing happened to me. The guy was convicted of criminal conduct.

This morning, I was walking down the street and I was hit by a violin, then a clarinet and then a french horn. I think it was an...