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Well, what if you needed far more specific maps? What if you or your players were not satisfied seeing the same maps again and again? How do you come up with a very specific map if the need for it came from the players going off in a direction you didn't expect and so haven't prepared for...

Well yes... I have a hard time believing that living on any other planet would be better than Earth. They might. Which I would think, partisanship aside, most folks would say makes far more sense as a term. But they may call them something else. A superhero RPG may call game sessions "issues"...

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It's not irrelevant to me, though. That there are things out in the world, hinted at in some way, does not turn those things into an encounter. I never said that GM prep MUST ALWAYS mean less player agency". I said there's a conflict there between the idea of needing prep and players being...

I'm not saying that the conflict cannot be addressed in some way. There are several ways it can be done, and it very much depends on what kind of game you're playing. Many such suggestions... information rich environments, sharing more information with players, removal of gating info behind...

I normally punch out when people start quoting the dictionary. But in this case, I'd instead like to quote the 2014 DMG. Page 75 Location-Based Adventures 6. Plan Encounters After you've created the location and the overall story of the adventure, it's time to plan out the encounters that make...

I didn't say an encounter had to include a threat. I said the example you provided... tracks of a potentially hostile group... consisted only of a potential threat and nothing more. It's not really what I think people would consider an encounter. It might lead to one... perhaps the GM has an...

Nope, encounter is what I meant! It has a pretty specific use when it comes to RPGs. Certainly no more or less confusing than “moves”. No, I get that. I spent plenty of time as a DM creating encounters of all kinds. I absolutely understand the usage… but interestingly, it’s not one I tend to...

If you don’t understand that there’s a conflict between the need for prep and player agency, I’m not going to try and convince you. The way you’re engaging with the idea… “not now and never has been”… certainly doesn’t indicate an open mind.

Well as I said, for many games, I wouldn’t ever think of those as encounters. It’s not defined in any way other than as a signaled threat. You realize you’re defending jargon here, right?

Note that I said satisfying! Sounds like the response of someone reading to understand for sure!

It does seem to be a bit of a conflict! I doubt we’ll encounter a satisfying answer!

Yes, I’ve already said that I have considered encounters in some of the games I run. But not all. The ones where I do tend to be D&D or similarly structured, where an abundance of the effort is on the GM. Wouldn’t that be resolving the encounter? I don’t expect that the AD&D books describe it...

As I said, I accept that you look at it that way. All I asked was the common courtesy to return the favor and respect that I view it differently. I guess that’s not possible. Okay then.

Yeah, I just went with something where there were obvious hints of there being more to the person. So no difference between a social encounter and a combat encounter, then? Instead of assuming people are posting in bad faith, perhaps you should consider that sometimes wording or phrasing...

The Mothership Warden’s Manual. It’s notD&D, but it’s the most practical and applicable GM’s guide I’ve seen.

Asking people to explain is not refusing to accept. It's interesting how such a simple question has evoked such a strong response. It's because it highlights what's happening at the table. Okay. Like I said, you can use whatever word you like. Well, regardless of the daily encounter, it...

Why would you not accept other peoples’ verbiage? Isn’t that just actively trying to not understand them? I said I understand your use of the word encounter. I do think there’s something interesting to come from examining it, that’s all. All I’ve asked is not to expect me to use it in the same...

You can use whatever term you like. I follow what you mean in this sense. I think questioning the usage is interesting because it reveals a lot about the expectations of D&D play. I don’t think so. I think that D&D views interactions with NPCs or the environment as being encounters. This is a...

No apology needed! I only pointed it out so any continued back and forth would make sense. I think it’s more about the “bypassed encounter” which is a bit of an odd way of looking at it. It’s more a “potential encounter”, and people seem to be shortening that to just encounter. It’s that...