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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Starfox" data-source="post: 6227335" data-attributes="member: 2303">1e: expeditions2e: settings3e: characters4e: encountersPathfinder: romancesI replaces 1e's adventures by expeditions ,because the 1e adventure were all about planning and packing and setting out to be away from civilization. And also to differentiate it from Pathfinder.For pathfinder my first choice of words was adventures, but that was already taken by 1e. So I looked for what separated the two and came up with calling the 1e thing an expedition, and the Pathfinder thing a romance - as in a dramatic tale (not a romantic story). Perhaps saga or epic would be better for Pathfinder, they are basically synonyms.Well, this in turn conflicts a bit with 2e, stories like Ravenloft and Dragonlance (which were both 1e but is where many people seem to think 2e began) were also romances, but at the same time they were also journeys to discover a setting. And what came during the 2e era was mostly settings - Dark Sun, Planescape, Spelljammer. A 2e adventurer was half tourist, half adventurer, so I agree with "settings" as the descriptive word for 2e. I like scenes for 4e. I had issues with it at first, and was going to bring forth point-of-light or exploration. But then I realized that they way you explored the points of light in 4E was through encounters. An adventure and even an setting was a series of encounters, scenes each intended to be little show-piece battles. Making a pastiche from the adventure description in Twerps, in 4E "an adventure is a series of interconnected scenes".</blockquote>

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