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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5581934" data-attributes="member: 4937">Or, in my case, you could (and can!) do sessions either way, alternating back and forth between dungeoncraft and story, and between exploring an environment and exploring characters.What gets me is that this is the way I've been playing since roughly 9th grade.  I haven't really changed my game at all in 22 years.  My stories may have gotten a little less linear and more accomodating and my rules have changed a ton (hopefully for the better), but ultimately I'm still playing the same D&D I was playing my last year in high school.In the old days, circa 1990, back when we were disparaging that new even numbered edition for dumbing the game down, I was already going from dungeon crawling for a session to not picking up the dice for a whole session because I was involved in complex NPC interaction.  I was in groups that alternated between planning out their campaign against some stronghold of the enemy in lavish detail, to spending much of the session discussing politics in character with each other.Yes, I do.And, sometimes I also want to challenge myself against a trapped filled tomb.  Is there something wrong with like cake and ice cream?</blockquote>