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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8383110" data-attributes="member: 16814">Choosing to go to the mountain requires some resolution, yes.  That portion is suitably exploration.  The description of the mountain, florid or not, isn't -- it's just exposition.  And, sure, if your character is "looking" as in the character is doing something, this needs to be resolved.  I think that there's a limit, here, as in if it's something the character sees by turning their head and you require actions to that effect, then we're entering the pixel bitch field and engendering some different questions of quality of play.  But, sure, being held to my own words that would be exploration if you did that.As for part of the game, of course exposition and description are part of the game. They are key aspects of having a shared fiction in which to play. We're talking about what constitutes the exploration pillar, though, not what is an isn't part of the game.  Let's not drift into a strawman of my position, here.</blockquote>