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Legend of the Five Rings, Fifth Edition is one of my favorite roleplaying games ever made (right up there with my group's Vampire hack...

It would just be nice if people could stop using game jargon and just talk casually for once. :)

You can use whatever term you like. I follow what you mean in this sense. I think questioning the usage is interesting because it...

I can follow this easily enough. But other posters in this thread seem to be advocating different usage. For instance, some seem to...

When I see the term “bypassed my encounter” used colloquially in D & D space it almost universally has a negative connotation from the...

This is how I view the word usage. If the DM narrates the party seeing a patrol of orcs a few hundred yards ahead, the party has had an...

Because an encounter is a thing that occurs. If no encounter occurs, then what is it that was bypassed? The answer seems to be - the...

Well, yes, obviously. The problem is the natural usage of the word encounter means to actually, ya know, interact with something...

Notice how important "planned" is in that definition being viable, and how much it assumes a norm of pre-planned, module or...

I've never heard anyone describe missing a party as a missed encounter. Because they're not encounters - when you miss a party, you...

OK? Then why do you keep posting replies to my comments (and threads that I've started over the years) about the analysis of game play...

This is why I said, in the post that you replied to, "as I already posted that would be a weird and dysfunctional thing - it would...

I am fairly certain you are likely to have read various novels and stories where the mystics/psionics needed/used material components...

I think I would describe the most sandboxy games I have run as more of the opposite of the mix suggested in OP. Rather than starting out...

Heh, to be clear. The spell components are worthless and pointless, and do nothing for game balance anyway. Ignoring them makes little...