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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7888729" data-attributes="member: 42582">That bolded line appeared in my first post in this thread. Perhaps you misunderstood or misread that first post - it happens. But my argument hasn't changed, nor become more nuanced.Mistwell is positing that the decision procedure is already in use, and hence can just continue to be applied.My preference as a hypothetical player would be to resolve the whole "chasing Capt Whiskers" scenario via intent-and-task resolution, as [USER=996]@Tony Vargas[/USER] (I think?) suggested upthread. Which would make the map issue redundant.But if I found myself in a game in which the way situations are established is being resolved by tracking tokens on a map and seeing which "scene triggers" they hit then I'm not going to be super-fussed if it turns out that that is determined by application of a standard decision-procedure rather than vaa nuanced player decision-making seeking some optimal set or sequence of situation triggers. This is a reflection of (i) my general lack of interest in and skill at classic Gygaxian "skilled play", and (ii) my general preference for GM control over scene-framing.By way of contrast, the troll scenario is not about scene-framing at all. It's about action resolution in the context of an established situation.And also by way of contrast, the intent-and-task resolution of the hunt for the Capt - which as I said would be my own preferred approach, everything else being equal - would convert the overland travel from a series of scene-triggers into action resolution within a particular scene.And for purposes of full disclosure: if you want to see how I recently ran a map-based scenario,<a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/classic-traveller-actual-play-annic-nova-meets-alien.669484/" target="_blank"> here is a session report of my Traveller game from Sunday</a>. The map itself wan't secret, and the scene-framing was purely GM-driven but (i) having regard to the fiction established by the players' descriptions of what their PCs were doing and (ii) using the system's surprise rules as a constraint on action economy at the opening of a framed scene. I don't think this is how the original author of that scenario, Marc Miller, intended it to be refereed. It worked because, as I explain in my actual play report, I added additional content to the scenario to create an active opposition (ie antagonistic game elements to include in my framing) rather than having it be simply "passive" exploration.</blockquote>

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