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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 9671350" data-attributes="member: 6915329">I would say an encounter is something that causes the players to stop and take some sort of action, or multiple actions, in order to deal with it in some way. Those actions often, probably usually, take the form of die rolls. Combat encounters, social encounters, exploration encounters, etc.Since you have played D&amp;D4e, you know this already.And no, it doesn’t require that something was written down. As I wrote elsewhere, you can completely improvise an encounter. Whatshisname’s encounter with the assassin.Did the pickpocket affect the PCs in any way? Were they aware of them? [USER=29398]@Lanefan[/USER] said that he would consider it a bypassed encounter if the PCs are both aware and take pains to avoid dealing with it, and that sounds like a decent caveat to me. So if the pickpocket’s target shout out “Stop that thief! He stole my purse!” and the PCs just shrug and move on, deliberately not chasing the thief or helping the target in any way, I’d call that bypassed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 9671350, member: 6915329"] I would say an encounter is something that causes the players to stop and take some sort of action, or multiple actions, in order to deal with it in some way. Those actions often, probably usually, take the form of die rolls. Combat encounters, social encounters, exploration encounters, etc. Since you have played D&D4e, you know this already. And no, it doesn’t require that something was written down. As I wrote elsewhere, you can completely improvise an encounter. Whatshisname’s [I]encounter[/I] with the assassin. Did the pickpocket affect the PCs in any way? Were they aware of them? [USER=29398]@Lanefan[/USER] said that he would consider it a bypassed encounter if the PCs are both aware and take pains to avoid dealing with it, and that sounds like a decent caveat to me. So if the pickpocket’s target shout out “Stop that thief! He stole my purse!” and the PCs just shrug and move on, deliberately not chasing the thief or helping the target in any way, I’d call that bypassed. [/QUOTE]

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