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Honestly, it has been unclear. I think what often happens in these discussions is people fail to make the distinction between what is happening in the fiction and what’s happening in the game. You see it all the time… people use player and character almost interchangeably, and so on. Very...

It depends on the nature of the interaction. I just recently posted about an assault in my BitD game, and a town-wide feast that led to a dark ritual that enthralled most of the townsfolk and the PCs then exorcised the evil entity and banished it, at the cost of one of their lives, which was at...

Well the thing is I have rarely used the word encounter in my life to describe an interaction of some sort with another person. I’m not saying I never have… but it’s not a common way to talk about these things. In the realm of RPGs, the primary use of the word is definitely the jargon… your...

Because you’re insisting that everything that happens in any game can be called an encounter and other people are saying “bo, that’s not how I think of it” and then you say, “okay… but it’s all encounters.” You mean like games that use encounters and games that don’t? Good grief. I’m not...

See… this is you ignoring what I am saying and insisting on viewing things solely from your view. You’re not willing or able, it seems, to accept that “encounters” aren’t so foundational to all games. Not as they’re described in D&D, and not how the term has been influenced by that concept...

I think perhaps his questions stem from his inability to reconcile certain ideas from some posters rather than him being unable to understand the things you’re saying. Like… maybe try and approach this conversation from the POV of someone who doesn’t accept that encounters are an essential...

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 and how that impacts how GM- or player-centric a game may be. As @zakael19 elaborates in this post: I think the advancement angle is an interesting one, and...

No, I don’t leave it up to the players. What I do depends on the game. But if the players don’t follow the footprints, then I don’t create an encounter for them to run into. So it’s weird… to me… to think of something like that as an encounter. I haven’t come up with a location or even specified...

What’s Frieren? I think you may have already said so, but I want to be sure. As for the shift… yeah, it’s not that surprising at this point. For many reasons, I suppose… but you mentioning Daggerheart may highlight one… the rise of Actual Plays as a mode of entertainment. More of a need to...

So what? There are also games that don’t use the word. And clearly there are many ways of using it. So maybe… just maybe… some people may be confused at times on how it’s being used, or what it means specifically in a given game.

Sure, I can see that to some extent. Though in a way the goal of the sandbox that you’ve been describing seems more about crafting as much as possible ahead of time, so you can then quickly put together an encounter or a scenario as needed. Yeah, I’m not crazy about it either, but honestly...

Well, I was told that Encounter was not jargon and that therefore there should be no confusion as to how it’s being used. And I’ve also been told in this thread that D&D should be the baseline for starting conversation. So I showed how D&D 5 e uses the word Encounter to mean something specific...

Pretty sure yours goes to 11, Max!

Yes, that is my point… that it may be a problem. I never said it had to be a problem for you or any given person.

No those are the cutely-named moves that D&D uses!

I know the hints are not the encounter. So… what is the encounter? To me, there doesn’t seem to actually BE any encounter. I never said it was the only way to define an encounter. I said that for D&D, “Encounter” has a specific meaning… as we can see by comparing what the DMG defines to the...

You really “cannot fathom” why anyone would want to skip past the more boring aspects of play? All these discussions we’ve been involved in over the years where people have discussed their preferences… and you “cannot fathom” someone’s preferences differing from yours? Do you like reboot...

Sure, sure! Bardic Inspiration, Rage, Reckless Attack, Channel Divinity, Wild Shape, Second Wind, Action Surge, Martial Arts, Deflect Missiles, Lay on Hands, Natural Explorer, Sneak Attack, Cunning Action, Font of Magic, Eldritch Invocations, and Arcane Recovery all agree with you, I'm sure...

I'm not saying either of those things. Just read the bits in italics and you have all the info you need. There's no trick here.

I was explaining that I am not insisting that prep always takes away agency. Just that there's a conflict there. I'm not saying that improv always results in agency. That's not a comment I made. Though I think you equating no prep to a featureless desert doesn't really work, because a GM could...