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5e absolutely ties advancement to encounters (primarily combat) unless you move to milestone leveling. Milestone leveling is GM fiat...

I really appreciate that Daggerheart has been up front with its expectations here as well. It’s designed to be a heroic fantasy game...

That is the intended mentality for the playstyles Apocalypse World and Burning Wheel were designed to support. To stay present, focus on...

If I had to hazard a guess. I would say he is asking because it’s hard to reconcile the ideas of encounters and how they relate to prep...

To me, the way you describe scenes can fit with sandbox and comes to possibly semantics (an "encounter" may or may not contain danger...

I don’t think of anything I do right now as encounters, because the games I’m running don’t either. At most, I’m framing a scene that...

This captures most eloquently why I choose to play roleplaying games. I want this stuff.

For me, the answer was really nicely put by Eero Tuovinen: I find that the riddle of roleplaying is answered thusly: it is more fun to...

I still find this idea of "encountering" such a strange way of conceiving things. If you are sneaking past something, surely you have...

Thinking on it some more, I am going to plan to run DH for one of our local cons in the fall. I want to see how it plays with...

Yeah, “you get what you set out to do how you said it” is probably enough. Might ask “what does this look like?” to set up the next...

It's is more of a post-post-apocalyptic science fantasy in the vein of Horizon Zero Dawn. On Hope: Looking at page 18, it strikes me...

Maybe, but there is no way to know this outside of a well designed, totally public study. Which, by the way, I completely advocate for...

I’ve discussed how stuff showed up in the notes/prep when there were questions about outcomes or procedures (and occasionally via “what...

Which version of D&D is this? It is not Gygax's AD&D. And it is not 4e D&D. 4e D&D doesn't use a notion of "bypassing encounters" in its...