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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 7656650" data-attributes="member: 1288">Because they aren't the same thing. Encounter design and scenario design are ingredients or individual dishes. The campaign is the banquet.A chef is cooking a banquet for ten of his friends, whose tastes he knows well. If he tries to make sure every guest loves every dish, he's screwed himself. People's tastes just don't work like that. There's always going to be someone who dislikes this, or much prefers that.So he makes sure not to include anything that any guest is allergic to. But other than that, he sets about making sure everyone will enjoy the banquet as a whole. Out of a dozen dishes, he can be sure that any given person will like at least seven or eight of them, and that makes the meal a success for everyone.Apples and oranges. The player pointed out an in-game even that you had forgotten, and which had a direct impact on the scenario. That's the sort of thing a DM should absolutely pay attention to."Where manticores live," especially in a world where that hasn't previously and formally been established, isn't remotely the same thing.</blockquote>