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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 8265017" data-attributes="member: 53980">I'd say one way to look at CaS vs CaW would be to say that CaS is war waged with both sides abiding by some agreement (akin to the Geneva Convention), whereas CaW is war waged without such limitations.Although I do think that the best definition is one of symmetry. CaS gameplay is denoted by (reasonable) symmetry. Meaning that the DM won't throw an ancient dragon in the path of a level 1 party, and the players don't generally go to significant to strategically subvert the encounters they do come across.CaW gameplay, by contrast, is about asymmetry. The DM is free to put anything in the the path of the party, even an ancient dragon in a level 1 dungeon. The players are free to engage with these challenges by whatever means they can. That might mean avoiding the dragon entirely, poisoning its water supply to (hopefully) kill it, or collapsing the tunnel to its lair so that it can't threaten them.</blockquote>