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<blockquote data-quote="Pickles JG" data-source="post: 5930257" data-attributes="member: 61501">I was taken aback to find Exploration as one of the 3 pillars of D&amp;D. I describe my experiences with D&amp;D as “Tactical miniatures games with in character chat”, which covers the other two “pillars”. Clearly many other people play D&amp;D as something like an interactive story which obviously has much more emphasis on the interaction part.&nbsp;So who does all of this exploring? What are they doing?The only think I can think of is all that 10’ pole prodding we used to do in the day &amp; setting up exhaustive SOPs for opening doors &amp; setting watches &amp; meticulous mapping so on – all stuff I was happy to drop. (Though conceded I did have fun mapping Pharaoh it was a solo project the rest of the party were oblivious).&nbsp;What does “exploration” in D&amp;D mean to you?What do you enjoy about it?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pickles JG, post: 5930257, member: 61501"] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=white]I was taken aback to find Exploration as one of the 3 pillars of D&D. I describe my experiences with D&D as “Tactical miniatures games with in character chat”, which covers the other two “pillars”. Clearly many other people play D&D as something like an interactive story which obviously has much more emphasis on the interaction part.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=white] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=white]So who does all of this exploring? What are they doing?[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=white]The only think I can think of is all that 10’ pole prodding we used to do in the day & setting up exhaustive SOPs for opening doors & setting watches & meticulous mapping so on – all stuff I was happy to drop. (Though conceded I did have fun mapping [I]Pharaoh[/I] it was a solo project the rest of the party were oblivious).[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=white] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=white]What does “exploration” in D&D mean to you?[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][COLOR=white]What do you enjoy about it[/COLOR]?[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]

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